BedlingtonStation PrimarySchool

Portal Design:

Health Kick!

Year 2 Term 2B

CONTEXT

Hey beautiful creatives! It’s Seraphina Huesplash here. Now, Olive Stein might own Portal Design, but she’s handed me the paintbrush, the mood board, and the good vibes – and I’m running the studio day to day. And lucky me… that means I get to work with you. I've heard that you have imagination, care, and creative spark so I knew you are the team of designers I need! At Portal Design, our clients bring us a commission – that’s when they ask us to dream up, design, and create something amazing to solve a real problem. And ohhh, these commissions are exciting. One comes from a big supermarket that wants a brand-new range of healthy snacks, and the other is from the Great North Museum, who need help designing an exhibit showing how food and healthy living have changed from the past to today. So slow your breathing, open your minds, and let the ideas flow… but when it’s time to create, remember our studio mantra: Every idea starts as a spark!

BROADENING EXPERIENCE

British Science Week

CLASS READER

I was a Rat by Phillip Pullman 🔗

Jigsaw PSHE'Healthy Me'We will be learning about being healthy and relaxation, medicine safety and healthy eating..

Curriculum Overview

Oracy Development Opportunities

ENGLISH

Focus Grammar

  • Sentence types – command, exclamation, statement, question
  • Past and present tenses – including the progressive form

Hot Seating

Focus Narrative:

Animal Adventure

Key Text/Stimulus:

The Princess and the Frog (Movie) 🔗

Writing Outcome:

Tiana meets a frog who promises that one magical kiss will turn him back into a prince, but when she kisses him the magic goes wrong and she is transformed too, sending them on an unexpected adventure to try and break the spell.

Write a first-person fantasy story about waking up and discovering you have turned into an animal of your choice, describing what you see, how your body feels, and what you do next.

Focus: Create a clear narrative with a beginning, middle and end, using time words and descriptive language to show the transformation and the adventure that follows.

Focus Non-Narrative:

Adverts

Key Text/Stimulus:

Healthy snack product commission

Outcome:

Create an eye-catching advert poster for a brand-new healthy snack, using descriptive words and persuasive languageto make people really want to buy it.

Cross-curriculum support genres:

Recounts

Non-chronological reports

ART

Pathway: Music And Art 🔗

In this pathway children are introduced to the idea that artists often work in partnership and are often inspired by other art forms – in this case music and the visual arts.  

Disciplines:

Drawing, Making, Sketchbooks

Medium:

Paper, Drawing Materials, Paint, Construction Materials

Artists:

Kandinsky, Various “Projection Mapping” artists

How can music help us make art?

Music can change how we feel and help us choose different lines, shapes, and colours in our artwork.

 

Mark-making – the different lines, dots, and shapes we make when drawing or painting.

Abstract – art that uses shapes, lines, and colours instead of drawing something exactly as it looks.

Rhythm – a repeated pattern of sounds or movements that can help guide how we draw our lines and marks.

RE

Jigsaw RE

How important is it to Christians that Jesus came back to life after his crucifixion?🔗

(Northumberland Agreed Syllabus - Unit 1.5 Why does Easter matter to Christians)

 

What do Christians believe happened on Good Friday?Christians believe that Jesus was put to death on a cross and remember this event on Good Friday. They believe that after he died, he was put into a tomb with a stone rolled across the doorway (so something that could not easily be moved especially from the inside).

What do Christians believe happened on Easter Sunday?Christians believe that on Easter Sunday, visitors to the tomb (one being Mary Magdalene who was a follower of Jesus) found it empty. Mary then saw Jesus in the gardens surrounding the tomb, demonstrating to her that he had risen from the dead.

Jesus – Christians believe he is the Son of God who died and came back to life.

Cross – The wooden structure where Christians believe Jesus died on Good Friday.

Tomb – A place where Jesus' body was laid after he died; it was found empty on Easter Sunday.

Resurrection – The Christian belief that Jesus came back to life on Easter Sunday.

Easter – A special Christian celebration remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus.

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HISTORY

Content:

Changes to lifestyle/health

Changes to food

National Curriculum:

changes within living memory

 

How has food changed over time within living memory?In the past, people often grew their own food, cooked meals from scratch, and ate more seasonal fruit and vegetables. Today, there are many more choices, including fast food and ready meals, which are quicker but not always the healthiest. People now talk more about eating a balanced diet and making healthy choices. These changes show how food, shopping, and ideas about health have all changed over time.
How have people's lifestyles changed?In the past, people often walked more, played outside, and had fewer screens or machines to help with daily jobs. Today, many people use cars, watch TV, and spend more time indoors, but there is also more awareness of how to stay healthy. We now talk more about eating well, exercising, and looking after our mental health. This shows how our lifestyles have changed and how people today try to balance comfort with wellbeing.
How have children’s lives changed within living memory?Children’s lives today are different from those of their parents and grandparents when they were young. In the past, children often had fewer toys, walked to school, and helped more with jobs at home. Today, many children have more technology, structured activities, and more time for play and learning.

Past – A time that has already happened; when our parents or grandparents were children.

Present – The time we are living in now; what life is like today.

Change – When something becomes different over time, like how children play or what people eat.

Lifestyle – The way people live, including their daily routines, food, and activities.

Well-being – How healthy and happy someone feels, including their body and mind.

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GEOGRAPHY

National Curriculum:

No focus  

 

Content:

No focus

PE

Real PE Unit:

Unit 4

Cog Focus

  • Creative Skills

Fundamental Movement Skills

  • Coordination: Ball Skills
  • Counter Balance: With a Partner

Planning Link

Sport:

Multi-skills

Football

DT

Pathway: Balanced diet 🔗

Discovering the importance of a balanced diet and creating a tasty, balanced wrap to meet a design brief.

Core: Cooking and nutrition

What makes a balanced diet?

A balanced diet includes a mix of different foods from all the food groups—like fruit and vegetables, protein, dairy, and grains—to help keep our bodies healthy and strong.

Balanced – A healthy mixture of different kinds of foods from the main food groups.

Diet – The types of food that a person normally eats.

Ingredients – The individual foods that are used to make a recipe or dish.

SCIENCE

National Curriculum:

Animals/Humans

notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults

find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene

 

Investigations

Growing Up: Children sequence humans and animals from baby to adult and notice how living things change as they grow.

What Do We Need to Live? Children identify and group the basic needs all animals, including humans, need to survive: food, water and air.

Keeping Our Bodies Healthy: Children explore how exercise, healthy food and good hygiene help humans stay healthy.


Big Question: How are humans the same and different from other animals?

Focus: Identifying, Grouping and Classifying and Pattern-SeekingChildren observe real-life features of humans and animals, compare them, and explain similarities and differences using simple scientific language.

Outline: The children observe a visit from Frankie, the school dog, using their senses to look closely at her body parts, coverings, and how she moves. They compare Frankie’s features with their own, identifying similarities and differences. Through discussion, the children describe what they notice and begin to group features, using their observations to explain how humans and other animals are the same and different.

Look for patterns: Look for patterns such as: Body parts humans and animals both have (eyes, legs, mouths). How animals and humans move in different ways. What covers the body (skin, fur, hair). Features that help animals and humans do everyday things (walking, eating, seeing).

 

What happens to animals and humans as they grow?All animals, including humans, have babies called offspring. These offspring grow and change over time until they become adults. Some animals, like butterflies and frogs, change a lot as they grow, while others, like humans and dogs, grow bigger and stronger. Growing is a natural part of life for all living things.

What do animals and humans need to survive?All animals and humans need water, food, and air to stay alive. Without these basic needs, our bodies can’t work properly. Some animals find their food in the wild, while humans often grow or buy their food. These needs must be met every day to stay healthy and strong.

How can humans keep their bodies healthy?To stay healthy, humans need to exercise, eat the right amounts of different kinds of food, and keep clean. Exercise helps our muscles and heart stay strong. Eating a variety of foods gives our bodies the nutrients they need. Washing hands and brushing teeth helps stop germs from making us ill.

Offspring – The babies of animals or humans, which grow into adults.

Grow – To get bigger and stronger over time, like all living things do.

Survive – To stay alive by getting what the body needs, like food, water, and air.

Exercise – Moving your body to stay fit and strong, like running, jumping, or playing.

Healthy – Feeling well and strong because you eat well, move often, and keep clean.

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COMPUTING

Online Safety

Lesson 4: Is it true? 🔗

Identifying real and fake information online.

Programming

ScratchJr 🔗

Exploring what ‘blocks’ do, using the app ‘ScratchJr,’ by carrying out an informative cycle of predict > test > review. Programming a familiar story and an animation of an animal, children make their own musical instrument by creating buttons and recording sounds as well as following an algorithm to record a joke.

MUSIC

Oak Academy

Music and movement: using symbols to represent pitch 🔗

Performing/singing/evaluations

Your favourite character

Draw your favourite story character and then choose words and phrases to describe them. Write these around the picture of your character.

Healthy Poster

Write your top tips for kids to have a healthy life. Do some research or ask your family. Design a poster to show your tips. Remember to make it eye catching

Statistics

Make a tally chart of the different colour cars that pass your house. Turn the tally into a block chart to show the information. Choose the best scale use (1,2 or 5)

Skip CountingPractise counting in 2s. Remember all numbers in the 2 times table end with 0, 2,4, 6, or 8!

Number BondsPractise your number bonds to 20.

Times TablesPractise your 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

Learn a new skill

Climb a big hill

Create your own song/poem

Dance with someone at home

Make a mud pie

Paint with your hands or feet

Reading
Don't forget to read every night for at least 10 minutes. Complete your bookmark each time you read. It should take you 3 weeks to fill a whole book mark.You can read anything - books, comics, websites and your phonics book!

Topic Vocabulary

These are words you will come across this half term in the work you will be doing. Take some time to find out what the mean and discuss them with your grown ups at home. This will help you when in school.

Mark-making

Abstract

Rhythm

Jesus

Cross

Tomb

Resurrection

Easter

Exercise

Healthy

 

Past

Present

Change

Lifestyle

Well-being

Balanced

Diet

Ingredients

Offspring

Grow

Survive

 

Tier 2 Vocabulary

Tier 2 vocabulary are words you often come across in reading and schoolwork that aren't everyday conversation words but help you understand and express more complex ideas.

bash

rinse

roll

turn

speak

hear

pull

hide

beg

wash

write

lean

ride

sniff

count