Year Group Overview
Creative
How do you make an Egyptian mummy? What’s the highest mountain in Mexico? Who wrote War Horse? What type of wood should you use to make a bird box? How quickly can you and your class make a Roman Tortoise (testudo) formation? How do you look after a chicken? These are just some of the questions the children at Meadlands explore and find the answers to through our creative curriculum.
Every year the children dive into 4 or 5 curriculum topics. These are planned carefully against the National Curriculum objectives but we also do our best to weave in the children’s interests and curiosities as well as our teacher’s expertise. Phases work together over a 2 year cycle.
Every topic begins with an invigorating and exciting big bang experience, be this a trip to a West End theatre, a classroom transformed into a Chinese restaurant or the gory (and quite funny) experience of mummifying a teacher assistant! The children are then taken on a journey of their topic through the domains of science, design technology, outdoor learning, art and humanities – where possible we make these subject links.
Meadlands Primary School, Whole School Long Term Topic Overview
Cycle A
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Nursery |
Reception |
Phase 1 Year 1 and 2 |
Phase 2 Year 3 and 4 |
Phase 3 Year 5 and 6 |
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All About Me |
I Am Super! |
An amazing animal kingdom |
I’m an author, just like Roald Dahl. |
Mission to Mars |
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Singing, Rhyming and Telling Tales. |
Celebrations |
I can be an Architect |
The great, the bold and the brave. Romans! |
Ancient Greece |
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Dinosaur Dig |
Changing Seasons |
We’re on a journey to incredible India |
Come dive with me under the sea. |
The weather forecast |
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People Who Help Us |
The Space Above |
At Meadlands we have greenfingers |
Dance to the beat, healthy living! |
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Mini-Beasts and Patterns |
Animals |
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Pirates |
Fantasy and Fairytales |
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Cycle B
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Nursery |
Reception |
Phase 1 Year 1 and 2 |
Phase 2 Year 3 and 4 |
Phase 3 Year 5 and 6 |
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All About Me |
I Am Super! |
Around the World in 80 Days |
Mexico maravilloso |
Into the heart of Africa, looking after our Environment |
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Singing, Rhyming and Telling Tales. |
Celebrations |
The Magic Toymaker |
How well do you know Ham? |
Vile Victorians |
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Dinosaur Dig |
Changing Seasons |
Heroes of the Air – History of Flight |
Walking like an Egyptian |
Queens of the Stone Age |
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People Who Help Us |
The Space Above |
David Attenborough – the World of Natural History |
Volcanoes, active planet. |
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Mini-Beasts and Patterns |
Animals |
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Travelling back in time to the terrific Tudors. |
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Pirates |
Fantasy and Fairytales |
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Curriculum Maps
