Soaring Skies Federation Colvestone Primary School Spring term

Soaring Skies Federation Colvestone Primary School Spring term Year 2 Jungles

Soaring Skies Federation Colvestone Primary School • • Habitats Early Years : Under the Sea Year 1: The Polar Regions Year 2: Jungle Year 3: Plains and grasslands Year 4 : Urban Environments Year 5: Rainforest Year 6: British Countryside

Week 1 w/c 08. 01. 18 Key question: Where in the world is our habitat? Colvestone Primary School Special events this week: • • Writing baseline assessment Class newsletters to go to SLT for checking by 10. 01. 18 Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician 08. 01. 18 Door displays up by 10. 01. 18 Writing Baseline assessment – writing to recount • Introduce all of the different habitats that our classes will be learning about this term through pictures, videos and texts • Create a mind map of things your class know already about each habitat • Ask children to write a text which recounts what they know already about each habitat, for example: In Spring term, we are learning about habitats. Year 1 are learning about the polar regions. The things I know about this habitat are. . • Allow this writing to be independent so it can be used as a baseline assessment for the term. Science Geography • Use atlases and globes to locate the areas of the world where each of our curriculum focus habitats can be found Explore how we differentiate between living and non-living things. What do living things all do? (7 life processes) • Music Art and Design • Use drawing and sketching to create an impression of your habitat – develop techniques of colour, line, shape and form • Listen to with detail and appreciate music which links to your habitat. Represent your understanding of the music in a drawing. RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church? PSHCE • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ charity’ PE • Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term.

Week 2 w/c 15. 01. 18 Colvestone Primary School Key question: What animals can we find in our habitat? Special events this week: • Communal displays up by 19. 01. 18 Writing to inform – non-chronological report about jungles (2 weeks) • Read a variety of information texts and reports about jungles • Think about their audience and purpose • Explore their layout features – title, subheadings, sections of writing, pictures • Plan SPa. G lessons linked to language features – writing in the present tense, joining sentences with conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘because’, expanded noun phrases Geography Science • Use atlases and globes to name and locate the 7 continents. Which of these continents contain jungle habitats? • Art and Design Music • Use painting to create an impression of your habitat – develop techniques of colour, line, shape and form • Name and identify different animals that live in the jungle. Group them by their classification – mammals, reptiles, birds etc. Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church? PSHCE • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ openness’ PE • Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term

Week 3 w/c 22. 01. 18 Colvestone Primary School Key question: What plants can we find in our habitat? Special events this week: • School support plans in by 22. 01. 18 • Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician 22. 01. 18 Writing to inform – non-chronological report about jungles • As a class, plan the content and layout of your report. Think about what each section of writing will be about. • Think of some ideas for the heading and subheadings • Provide the class with a teacher model report to redraft and improve • Children to independently write their own reports about jungles • Provide writing frames and sentence starters for children who need support Geography • Use atlases and globes to name and locate the world’s oceans. Which oceans provide a coast for countries which contain jungles? Art and Design • Use collage with varied materials to create an impression of your habitat Science PSHCE Music PE • • Identify and name a variety of plants that can be found in jungles. How can we group these plants? (trees, flowers etc) Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church? • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ life-long learning’ • Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term

Week 4 w/c 29. 01. 18 Key question: How are living things adapted to life in our habitat? Colvestone Primary School Special events this week: Writing to describe – children are going to imagine that they are a scientist who has discovered a new species in the jungle. They are going to write a detailed description of their discovery. (2 weeks) • Read examples of descriptions and explore their features. • Explore the language features of description – adjectives, noun phrases, descriptive verbs. Look at exclamation sentences. • Use drama activities to re-create ‘discovering’ the species • Ask children to plan their species by drawing it and labelling its features Geography • Use atlases and globes to find the names of the countries in the world which contain jungles. Look at their flags and their capital cities. Science • Explore how animals in the jungle are specially suited to living in their habitat. Music Art and Design • • Over the next two weeks, use sculpture using varied materials to create an impression of your habitat Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church? PSHCE • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ vote’ PE • Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term

Week 5 w/c 05. 02. 18 Colvestone Primary School Key question: What does our habitat look like in different seasons? Special events this week: • Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician 05. 02. 18 Writing to describe – children are going to imagine that they are a scientist who has discovered a new species in the jungle. They are going to write a detailed description of their discovery. • Provide children with a teacher model description of a new species that isn’t very descriptive. Re-draft it as a class. • Ask children to draft their descriptions independently. • Publish the writing into a classroom book or display showing Year 2’s ‘discoveries’ Science Geography • • Explore the different seasons that we have in the UK. How do seasons in jungle regions compare? Look at a type of plant living in the jungle. Label its basic parts – roots, trunk, leaves etc. What does it need to survive? Music • Art and Design • Use sculpture using varied materials to create an impression of your habitat Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term RE - to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church? PSHCE • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ enrichment’ PE • Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term

Week 6 w/c 19. 02. 18 Key question: What happens in our habitat in the night time? Colvestone Primary School Special events this week: Writing to recount – diary entry of an explorer arriving in the jungle for the first time (1 week) • Give the children some examples of diary entries. Explore the language features – 1 st person, past tense, thoughts and feelings • Plan some SPa. G lessons around these language features • Use drama activities like hot seating to explore writing in role – the children are writing as an explorer arriving in the jungle for the first time. What do they see/hear/smell/feel? • Children write diary entries written in the 1 st person • Re-draft and edit Geography Science • Learn the names and label diagrams of the physical features of the jungle – layers of vegetation, rivers etc Identify and name nocturnal animals that live in the jungle. Explore how the jungle looks different in the day and night. • Music Art and Design • Learn about art from jungle regions. Research the lives and works of different artists. • Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term RE - to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • Explore the significance of animals in Christianity. PSHCE • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘safety’ PE • Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term

Week 7 w/c 26. 02. 18 Colvestone Primary School Key question: What are the changes that happen to living things in our habitat as they grow? Special events this week: • Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician 26. 02. 18 Writing to explain – explanation of the life-cycle of a living thing from a jungle habitat. (2 weeks) • Read some age-appropriate explanations about the life cycle of animals (butterfly, frog, chicken etc) • Think about the language and layout features of explanations and plan some SPa. G lessons around these • Choose a living thing from the jungle to write your life-cycle explanation about. Research the different stages of their life. • Summarise each stage in notes Geography • Explore the weather patterns in the jungle. How do these change depending on season? Science • Identify which animals in the jungle habitat are predators and prey. Music Art and Design • Choose one artist from a jungle region. Explore and research their work. • Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • Explore the significance of animals in Christianity. PSHCE • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘tolerance’ PE • Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term

Week 8 w/c 05. 03. 18 Colvestone Primary School Key question: How is our habitat different to a contrasting habitat? Special events this week: Writing to explain – explanation of the life-cycle of a living thing from a jungle habitat • Plan the content of each paragraph of your explanation – include an introduction and conclusion • Draft the explanation • Re-draft and edit • Publish the explanations onto nice paper and use as a classroom display Geography Science • Compare the physical and human geography of your habitat to our home habitat of London. • Art and Design • Use the skills practised in Spring 1 to create artwork inspired by great artists linked to your habitat. Music • Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term RE - to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • PSHCE Identify which plants in the jungle are producers – which are eaten by animals? • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘origins’ PE • Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term Why do Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection at Easter?

Week 9 w/c 12. 03. 18 Colvestone Primary School Key question: What issues are affecting our habitat today? Special events this week: • Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician 12. 03. 18 Writing to entertain – write a letter to an animal from the jungle. Explain to the animal how we will try to save his habitat from issues affecting it. (2 weeks) • Read examples of letters. Look at the layout features – address, date, To/From • In Geography lessons, explore some of the issues affecting jungle habitats. What can we do to help? • Look at a teacher model letter and explore the language features– writing in the 1 st person eg. “we will”, “our school” • Show a teacher model letter that needs redrafting. Edit it to make it better. Geography • Explore conservation issues affecting your habitat (eg. deforestation). What can we do in school to help? Art and Design • Use the skills practised in Spring 1 to create artwork inspired by great artists linked to your habitat. Science • Look at simple food chains of living things in the jungle. Use producers, prey and predators. Music • Evaluate your performance and make any changes. RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • Why do Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection at Easter? PSHCE • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘neighbourly’ PE • Evaluate your performances and make any changes.

Week 10 w/c 19. 03. 18 Colvestone Primary School Key question: How can we sustain life in our habitat? Special events this week: Writing to entertain – write a letter to an animal from the jungle. Explain to the animal how we will try to save his habitat from issues affecting it. (2 weeks) • Plan the content and structure of your letters • Draft the texts • Re-draft and edit • Read your letters aloud to the class. How will the animal feel when she receives your letters? Science Geography • • Explore changes that humans are making which are affecting your habitat. Make your own simple food chains of living things in the jungle. Music Art and Design • Use the skills practised in Spring 1 to create artwork inspired by great artists linked to your habitat. • Perform your soundscape with control and expression to an audience. RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus • Why do Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection at Easter? PSHCE • Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ equality’ PE • Perform your dance with control and expression to an audience.