The Brain can be used to learn lots of new and different things every day, enabling us to gain the knowledge, skills and understanding that we will need to become successful adults. By finding out more about how we learn, and how we can improve the way that we learn, we will be better equipped for meeting the many challenges ahead of us.

It's...Brainwave: The Brain

In Health & Wellbeing, we'll be learning about:

• How we can learn by making connections across different subjects and activities
• The Personal Learning Goals that help us to become better learners
• How Knowledge, Skills and Understanding combine for effective learning
• The different parts of the brain
• How to wake up our brain
• How to look after our brain

In Physical Education, we'll be learning about:

• How to learn and practise skills for a special athletic challenge
• How to assess the development of our skills over time

In Design, Technology and Innovation, we'll be learning about:

• Connecting learning between subjects
• Designing physical challenges

In Science, we'll be learning about:

• The things we can do to make new connections or strengthen existing connections in our brains

In International, we'll be learning about:

• The importance of understanding our place in the world

next...

Every day people all over the world make different types of journeys – on land, on sea and in the air. To make these journeys we have invented lots of different ways of getting from A to B. 

It’s... From A to B

In Geography, we’ll be learning about:

• How we travel to school
• How we can use maps to record our journey
• Travel to – and around – different countries

In International, we’ll be learning about:

• The similarities and differences between our journeys to school and those of other children around the world

In History, we’ll be learning about:

• What journeys were like in the past by interviewing an elderly member of the community
• Interviews and eyewitness accounts as a primary historical source
• Timelines that show when different types of transport were invented

In Science, we’ll be learning about:

• Air resistance

In Design, Technology and Innovation, we’ll be learning about:

• How to apply what we have learned about transport to plan and make our own vehicle
• How to test our vehicles to see how well they work

In ICT and Computing, we’ll be learning about:

• Programming using precise instructions to control a toy

In Art, we’ll be learning about:

• How to make our own futurist painting to capture the speed and movement of transport
• How to create a boat painting or collage in the impressionist style

In Music, we’ll be learning about:

• How to create our own sound journey using voices and instruments

In Health and Wellbeing, we’ll be learning about:

• How to make safe journeys, both on foot and by bicycle

and then...

Stepping into the past, the clues we can uncover and how evidence tells us what happened in the past. We will be historians finding out about how past is recorded and represent. We will explore our own past and how we can find out more. Have much can you remember from your past? What can you find out?

It's...Time Travellers

In History, we’ll be learning about:

• Our own personal history
• How to order events chronologically
• How to make a family tree
• How we find out about events in the past
• How to investigate artefacts
• Local history
• Interviewing eye witnesses
• How the area around our school has changed over time
• Significant inventions from the past

In Science, we’ll be learning about:

• Different materials in the world around us
• Properties of materials 
• How materials change over time.
• Testing strengths of different materials 

In Health and Wellbeing we'll be learning about:

• Comparing meals and food from the past to today

In Design, Technology and Innovation we'll be learning about:

• Recreating nostalgic flavours

In International we'll be learning about:

• Significant ancient and archaeological sites
• Festivals

Later on in Year Two...

There are structures around us all the time, some of which we barely notice. What are they made from? What is their purpose? What do you notice about their shapes? What can be done to make them stronger? Through this unit you will become builders and discover the secrets to holding up bridges and skyscrapers.

It’s... Buildings!

In Art, we’ll be learning about:

• Sketching to make observations of local buildings
• Artists who use different techniques to depict cities
• Making a 3D relief 

In History, we’ll be learning about:

• Features of buildings in the past compared to today
• Changes to building materials
• Differences between old and modern buildings in the local area

In Geography, we’ll be learning about:

• Features of different homes around the world
• What influenced the design of homes around the world
• Tradtitional homes

In Design, Technology and Innovation, we’ll be learning about:

• How to make picture frames
• Using frame to make strong structures
• Making models of different shaped buildings

In Science, we’ll be learning about:

• How to test the strength of structures
• How we can support structures and make them more stable

In International, we’ll be learning about:

• The homes our classmates live in

and then...

Become better storytellers by studying great tales from the past, such as myths and legends. In order to do this, we will need to take on the role of historians, geographers and artists.

What story would you like to share with others – and how would you do it?  

It’s... The Stories People Tell

In History, we’ll be learning about:

• What myths and legends can tell us about the past
• How we can write our own legend about someone we know
• How past cultures told stories about their gods

In Geography, we’ll be learning about:

• How stories can be linked to real places around the world
• How we can retell an exciting journey around the world
• How we can use our imaginations to create a map of a fantasy storyland

In Art, we’ll be learning about:

• Aboriginal art used to tell creation stories
• How Greek theatre masks represented character and emotion
• Native American Indian carvings that tell stories

In Health and Wellbeing, we’ll be learning about:

• How we can make and decorate our own ‘Pandora’s Box’
• How fables aim to teach us life lessons

In International, we’ll be learning about:

• How we can create our own modern retelling of a fairy tale
• Who our heroes/heroines are today – and why we look up to them

In Music, we’ll be learning about:

• How we can use music to represent different characters and tell our own story

In Physical Education, we’ll be learning about:

• How we can combine dance and music to tell a story

...and finally

The world is a connected place, for thousands of years we have been building networks of trade across the land and sea. In this unit, we will explore how islands became increasingly connected and how they sold their resources to others. We will also look at the challenges of transporting goods across the seas and oceans and how this was threatened by nature and by people... pirates! 

It’s... Treasure Islands

In Geography, we'll be learning about:

• The other countries near us
• Islands around the world
• Marks and division on a globe and world map
• Fruits that grow in different places
• Transport routes
• Using and creating maps and plans
• The compass rose

In International, we’ll be learning about:

• Rules in different places
• Where we consider home to be

In History, we’ll be learning about:

• What pirates ate

In Art, we'll be learning about:

• Different coin designs
• Making our own coins

In Design, Technology and Innovation we'll be learning about:

• Making our own toy compass
• Designing and creating a treasure chest

In Science, we'll be learning about:

• How knowledge of the Earth, Sun and Moon helped navigation

In Music, we'll be learning about:

• Sea shanties
• How to compose and play music inspired by storms and pirate journeys across the sea
• Preparing for a musical performance

In Physical Education, we'll be learning about:

• Pirate inspired games 
• Creating dance moves inspired by sea shanties
• Staying safe near water