Simonside Primary School

Medium Term Project Planning

Academic Year: 2016/17 Year group: 2 Term: Autumn 2016

Essential Question:

If the fire happened now, would London still have been destroyed?

REAL Project Outcome:

Mini project - Children to participate in bread making and tasting event.

Main project - Children will learn about the Great Fire of London and will

produce an animation on fire safety.

Date for exhibition/project outcome:

Enrichment (trips/visitors):

Tesco ~ Bakery

Firefighter ~ school visit including working

appliance

Project Launch:

Children enter the classroom to discover they have been invited to watch

a ‘new’ infomercial all about fire safety. Children to evaluate infomercial

with view to producing a better one.

Immersion:

Corridor will include red carpet, Simonside walk of fame, Golden Oscars on

walls, hanging cameras and film reels, Simonside hills in style of Hollywood

hills. In class there will be a role play bakery, River Thames, silhouette of

London landscape and a Samuel Pepys diary writing area.

Celebrating cultures & diversity/events & dates:

Anniversary of Great Fire of London – 02.09.16

Bonfire Night - 05.11.16

Remembrance Day - 11.11.16

Children In Need - 18.11.16

Anti-Bullying Week - w/c 14.11.16

Anniversary of the fire of Windsor Castle – 20.11.16

Road Safety Week - w/c 21.11.16

Advent and Christmas – December

Maths Read and write numbers to at least a 100 in

numbers and words.

Recognise the place value of each digit in a 2-

digit number.

Count in steps of 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

Compare and order numbers using <,> and =

signs.

Rapidly recall and use additions and

subtraction facts to 20.

Recognise and name common 2d and 3d

shapes.

Measurement – length and height, capacity

and temperature.

Money - make the same amount with different coins. Time –o’clock and half past.

English

Books/Novel: How Rabbit Stole the Fire, Dick

Whittington.

English Coverage

Fiction –retelling traditional tales

Explanations

Recount

Senses poetry

SPAG

Types of sentences

Punctuation; full stops and exclamation marks.

Two adjectives /Prepositions.

Phonics/Spellings

/j/ sound spelt as ge

dge

split vowels

Possible project questions

What makes a good infomercial?

What’s life like in a bakery?

How do you make bread?

What would you save in a fire?

How was the fire put out?

PSHE

Maintain personal hygiene.

How some diseases spread and can be

controlled.

Rules for and ways of keeping safe.

History & Geography

Hist – lives of significant historical figures, including

comparisons from those of different periods – Samuel

Pepys.

Hist – Significant local people.

Hist- changes in living memory- Great Fire of London

Hist - Events of local importance – Remembrance Day

Geog Use basic vocabulary to describe a less familiar area.

Science

Identify and compare suitability of a

variety of everyday materials.

Find out how the shape of solid objects

made from some materials can be

changed by squashing, bending, twisting

and stretching.

Computing

E – safety- using technology safely and

respectfully keeping personal information

private.

Use technology purposefully to create,

organise, store, manipulate and retrieve

digital content.

RE

Judaism – what can we learn from

visiting a synagogue and how and why do

Jews celebrate Hanukkah. Christmas,

Christian celebrations and traditions.

Music

Sing songs.

Play tunes tuned and untuned

instruments musically.

ART & DT

Art – Use a range of materials

Art - Develop techniques of colour ,

pattern, texture, line, shape, form and

space.

DT – Build and improve structure and

mechanisms.