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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Autumn |
All About Me |
I Am Super! |
Incredible India |
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WWII |
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Singing, Rhyming and Telling Tales. |
Celebrations |
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Spring |
Dinosaur Dig |
Changing Seasons |
The great city of London. |
The great, the bold and the brave. Romans. |
Weather & climate. |
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People Who Help Us |
The Space Above |
I can be an architect. |
Mission to Mars. |
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Summer |
Mini-Beasts and Patterns |
Animals |
Green fingers. |
Come dive with me under the sea. |
Ancient Greeks |
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Pirates |
Fantasy and Fairytales |
The amazing animal kingdom. |
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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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Autumn |
All About Me |
I Am Super! |
Around the World in 80 Days |
Mexico maravilloso. |
Inventive Victorians. |
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Singing, Rhyming and Telling Tales. |
Celebrations |
The Magic Toymaker |
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Spring |
Dinosaur Dig |
Changing Seasons |
Heroes of the Air – History of Flight |
Walking like an Egyptian |
Africa: Journey to Johannesburg. |
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People Who Help Us |
The Space Above |
Volcanoes, active planet. |
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Summer |
Mini-Beasts and Patterns |
Animals |
David Attenborough – the World of Natural History |
Travelling back in time to the terrific Tudors. |
The Stone Age. |
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Pirates |
Fantasy and Fairytales |
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Curriculum Maps
