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Curriculum Overview

Leader in Me is based on the idea that every child can be a leader.

It is a philosophy that the school teaches to weave into everyday aspects of school life. It is a model in which pupils learn Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Happy Kids.

The 7 habits are: Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First things first, Think Win- Win, Seek First to Understand, Synergise and Sharpen the Saw.

Leader In Me is an integral part of our school culture model - it empowers students with the leadership and life skills they need to thrive in the 21st century.

Please scroll to the bottom to download individual year groups curriculum overview.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

2-3

My Day A1– What’s in the garden? A2

  • UTW (Science) Exploring texture of materials
  • UTW (History): Have a sense of own immediate family and relations
  • UTW (Geography): Explore natural materials
  • EAD (Design and Technology): Building through exploration
  • EAD (Art): Paint exploration
  • PSED (PSHE): Transitioning to Nursery
  • UTW (RE): Christmas songs and rhymes
  • EAD (Music): Nursery rhymes
  • PD (PE): Gross motor and fine motor skills through exploration, learning and play
  • UTW (Computing) :Exploring cause and effect toys

Our Pets SP1 – Farm Animals SP2

  • UTW (Science) To name a variety of different animals
  • UTW (History): Our family and relations
  • UTW (Geography):Explore garden creatures
  • EAD (Design and Technology): Building independent explorers in the classroom
  • EAD (Art): Colour Mixing
  • PSED (PSHE): Emotions
  • UTW (RE): Notices differences between people.
  • EAD (Music): Repetition of key words and phrases in nursery rhymes.
  • PD (PE): Gross motor and fine motor skills through exploration, learning and play
  • UTW (Computing) :
  • To operate on/off toys
  • Making Music SUM1 – Musical Stories SUM 2
  • UTW (Science) To explore how instruments make different sounds.
  • UTW (History): Have a sense of own immediate family and relations
  • UTW (Geography): Exploring what we grow (plants & Vegetables)
  • EAD (Design Technology):
  • Begin to construct within the classroom
  • EAD (Art): Drawing circles and lines
  • PSED (PSHE): Begin to notice similarities and differences
  • UTW (RE): Imitate everyday actions and events from own family background
  • EAD (Music): I can use an instrument to make sounds. I can play it loudly, quietly, fast or slow
  • PD (PE): Children begin to move towards performing a single skill with movement with limited control.
  • Oral Health
  • UTW (Computing) : To operate a toy camera (taking photos)

3-4

Marvellous Me A1 – What’s on Wood Street? A2

  • UTW (Science) Name and label rough and smooth objects
  • UTW (History):  Begin to make sense of own life story and family history
  • UTW (Geography):  Sense of self and belonging
  • EAD (Design and Technology):  Constructing through stacking
  • EAD (Art): Junk Modelling
  • PSED (PSHE): Describe and label emotions
  • UTW (RE): Begin to make sense of their own life story and family’s history.
  • The special people in the Christmas story
  • EAD (Music): Respond to music with movement
  • PD (PE): Children begin to follow instructions, practice safely and work on simple tasks by themselves.
  • Oral Health
  • UTW (Computing) :Exploring how things work

People who help us SP1- Our Garden SP2

  • UTW (Science) SP2:  Growing (Plants)
  • UTW (History):  Label familiar people in the community that help us
  • UTW (Geography): Describe a familiar route
  • EAD (Design and Technology):  Manipulate materials using a range of tools.
  • EAD (Art):Using colours for desired effect
  • PSED (PSHE): Talking about their feelings using words like happy, sad, worried and angry.
  • UTW (RE): Develop positive attitudes about the differences in people.
  • EAD (Music): Remember and sing an entire song, copying the pitch sung by another person
  • PD (PE): Understand and follow simple rules and explore and describe different movements.
  • Oral Health
  • UTW (Computing): Programmable toys

Little Explores SUM 1 – Let’s Pretend SUM 2

  • UTW (Science) SUM1- Talk about the differences between materials and the changes they notice.
  • UTW (History):  To learn about their friends and where their friend’s families are from.
  • UTW (Geography): exploring different types of weather.
  • EAD (Design Technology):
  • Develop and build upon knowledge of how to join different materials together
  • EAD (Art):Drawing lines and enclosed spaces
  • PSED (PSHE): Begin to learn how to resolve their own problems without the need of an adult assisting
  • UTW (RE): To begin to relate emotions to different experiences
  • Be able to express a point of a view
  • EAD (Music): I know that a song has a heartbeat (pulse)
  • PD (PE): Children begin to perform a single skill or movement with some control. Children can perform a small range of skills and link two movements together
  • UTW (Computing): Programmable toys

Year R

We are Superheroes A1 – Celebrations A2

  • UTW (Science): A2 Cooking - Investigating how different states change. Healthy eating/healthy teeth
  • UTW (History) A1:  Talk about members in our immediate family and local community
  • UTW (Geography): Where are we from- family backgrounds?
  • EAD (Design Technology):  To be able to create a free standing structure
  • EAD (Art): To use tools to shape, assemble and join materials.
  • PSED (PSHE):  Being Me in My World and Celebrating Difference
  • UTW (RE):  To have a sense of their own life story and family history.
  • EAD (Music): Listening and responding to different styles of music
  • PD (PE): Following instructions through movements.
  • UTW (Computing): Programmable toys - direction explicit language

Wonderful Walthamstow SP1 – Little Investigators! SP2

  • UTW (Science) SP2:  Children to learn about the natural world around them (seasons).
  • UTW (History): Build an overview of History (Location):
  • Note some similarities between in the past and now – local study
  • UTW (Geography):  Where are we from? Exploring seasons
  • EAD (Design Technology):  To know what tools are and how to use them.
  • EAD (Art): Repeating patterns and transient art
  • PSED (PSHE):  Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
  • UTW (RE): Understand that some places are special to members of their community.
  • EAD (Music): Everyone, our world
  • PD (PE): Begin to perform a single movement or skill with some control
  • UTW (Computing): Enable children interact with computer systems using different inputs – e.g. by using a mouse, voice, speech or touch

Traditional Tales SUM 1 – Modern Tales SUM 2

  • UTW (Science) SUM 2:  Recognise that some environments are different from the ones in which they live.
  • UTW (History): Make comparisons and contrasts from stories/ figures in the past, drawing on their experiences of what has been read
  • UTW (Geography): Similarities and differences in the natural world around them
  • EAD (Design Technology): To build on existing knowledge to use tools accurately and independently.
  • EAD (Art): Art Exploration
  • PSED (PSHE): Relationships and Changing Me
  • UTW (RE): To compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past.
  • EAD (Music): Reflect, Rewind and Replay - perform and Share
  • PD (PE): Children can perform a single skill or movement with some control. Children can perform a small range of skills and link two movements together.
  • Children can move confidently in different ways.
  • UTW (Computing): Use simple software applications to make something happen

 

 

 

 

Year 1

  • Science -Materials & Earth and Space
  • History: National Historical People-Queen Elizabeth II
  • Geography:  Countries within the United Kingdom
  • Design Technology: Frame Structures
  • Art: Painting & Collage
  • PSHE:  Being Me in My World and Celebrating Difference
  • RE: Christianity: Creation Story and Christmas
  • Music: Hey You! Old-school hip hop.
  • Rhythm in the Way We Walk and Banana Rap
  • How pulse, rhythm and pitch work together.
  • Computing: I Algorithm, I Model & I Draw
  • Spanish: Greetings
  • Numbers 1-10 and colours
  • PE: Personal & Social skills.
  • Personal = Fundamental skills of floor movement patterns and one foot balance skills (Yellow/Green Challenges)
  • Social = Fundamental skills of dynamic balance to agility and static seated balance (Yellow/Green Challenges)
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  • Science – Animals & Humans & Living Things
  • History: National Historical People/Event-Tim Berners Lee
  • Geography:  Cities in the United Kingdom
  • Design Technology: Slider and levers
  • Art: Portraits
  • PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
  • RE: Christianity Jesus as a Friend, Easter 
  • Music: In The Groove
  • How to be in the groove with different styles of music.
  • Round and Round
  • Pulse, rhythm and pitch in different styles of music.
  • Computing: I Compute: I Draw, I Safe, I Program Unit 1, I Write
  • Spanish: Minibeasts and Transports
  • PE: Cognitive skills
  • Creative skills
  • Fundamental skills of coordination - ball skills & counterbalance in pairs (Yellow/Green Challenges)
  • Science -  Evolution & Inheritance, Movement, Forces & Magnets, Plants, Light & Seeing and Sound & Hearing
  • History – Significant places in their own locality-Walthamstow
  • Geography: Australia
  • Design Technology: Food (portable snack)
  • Art: Portraits & Ancient Art
  • PSHE: Relationships and Changing Me
  • RE: Judaism: Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
  • Music: Your Imagination. Pop
  • Using your imagination
  • Reflect, Rewind & Replay
  • The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music.
  • Computing: I Write, I Data,
  • I Program Unit 2
  • Spanish:
  • Red Riding Hood (body parts)
  • Shapes
  • PE:  Health & Fitness
  • Health & Fitness skills
  • Fundamental skills of agility ball chasing & static floor balance (Yellow/Green Challenges)
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Year 2

  • Science: Living things: Habitats and Microhabitats 
  • History: How was school different in the past? 
  • Geography: Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place? 
  • Design Technology:  Wheel & Axel Mechanisms
  • Art: Painting and mixed media 
  • PSHE: Being Me in My World and Celebrating Difference
  • RE: Why do we need to give thanks? 
  • Music: Hands, Feet, Heart
  • South African music
  • Ho Ho Ho
  • Rapping and improvising for Christmas
  • Computing: E-Safety (Project Evolve) 
  • Spanish: Greetings
  • Numbers 1-10 and colours
  • PE: Personal & Social skills.
  • Personal = Fundamental skills of floor movement patterns and one foot balance skills (Green/Red Challenges)
  • Social = Fundamental skills of dynamic balance to agility and static seated balance (Green/Red Challenges)
  • Science: Materials and Animals (including Humans)
  • History: How did we learn to fly? 
  • Geography: Why is our world wonderful? 
  • Design Technology: Food (healthy snack)
  • Art: Sculpture and 3D 
  • PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
  • RE: How do we know some people have a special connection to God? 
  • Music: I Wanna Play In a Band
  • Playing together in a band
  • Zootime
  • Reggae and animals
  • Computing: E-Safety (Project Evolve) 
  • Spanish: Minibeasts and Transports
  • PE: Creative Skills/Cognitive skills
  • Fundamental skills of dynamic balance and static balance from a small base (Green/Red Challenges)
  • Cognitive Skill
  • Fundamental skills of co-ordination - ball skills & counter balance in pairs (Green/Red Challenges)
  • Science: Plants 
  • History:What is  Monarch?
  • Geography: What is it like to live by the coast? 
  • Design Technology: Textiles & Joining
  • Art: Craft and Design
  • PSHE: Relationships and Changing Me
  • RE: How and where do some people talk to God? 
  •  Music: Friendship Song
  • A song about being friends
  • Reflect, Rewind & Replay
  • The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning learn some of the language of music
  • Computing: E-Safety (Project Evolve)
  • Spanish: Spanish:
  • Red Riding Hood (body parts)
  • Shapes
  • PE: Physical Skills
  • Fundamental skills of coordination with equipment and agility - reaction/response (Green/Red Challenges)
  • Health & Fitness skills
  • Fundamental skills of agility ball chasing & static floor balance  (Green/Red Challenges)

 

 

 

Year 3

  • Science: Skeletons, Movement, sustainability and rocks

  • History: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to Bronze Age. 

  • Geography: Who lives near volcanoes?

  • Design Technology: Paper Circuits

  • Art: Drawing, growing artists

  • PSHE:  Being Me in My World and Celebrating Difference

  • RE: What makes us human and where do morals come from?

  • Music: Let Your Spirit Fly

  • RnB and other styles

  • Glockenspiel Stage 1

  • Exploring & developing playing skills

  • Computing: Creating Media – animation 

  • E Safety: Copyright and Ownership (Project Evolve). Computing Systems and Networks – Connecting Computers. E Safety: Self-image and Identity (Project Evolve) 

  • Spanish: Language Angels (animals)

  • PE: Personal & Social  skills

  • Fundamental skills of floor movement patterns and one foot balance skills(Red/Blue Challenges)

  • Fundamental skills of dynamic balance to agility and static seated balance (Red/Blue Challenges)

  • Science: Fossils, soil and light

  • History: Iron Age & The Romans

  • Geography: Who lives in Antarctica?

  • Design Technology: Shell Structures

  • Art: Craft and design – ancient Egyptian scrolls

  • PSHE:  Relationships and Changing Me

  • RE: Is scripture central to religion and what happens if we do wrong?

  • Music: Three Little Birds

  • Reggae and animals

  • The Dragon Song

  • Music from around the world, celebrating our differences and being kind to one another

  • Computing: Data and information – Branching databases 

  • E Safety: Privacy and Security (Project Evolve). Programming A – Sequencing Sounds 

  • E Safety: Health, well-being and lifestyle (Project Evolve)  

  • Spanish: Language Angels

  • Musical instruments

  • Under the sea

  • PE: Cognitive Skills

  • Fundamental Skills of dynamic balance and static balance small base: (Red/Blue Challenges)

  • Creative Skills

  • Fundamental skills of co-ordination - ball skills & counter-balance in pairs (Red/Blue Challenges)

  • Science: Plants, forces, magnets and biodiversity

  • History: Significant places in their own locality: London

  • Geography:  Are all settlements the same?

  • Design Technology: Food (vegetable soup)

  • Art: Sculptures and 3D

  • PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me

  • RE: Why is water symbolic and why is fire used ceremonially.

  • Music Bringing Us Together

  • Disco

  • Disco, friendship, hope and unity

  • Reflect, Rewind & Replay

  • Music: The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music

  • Computing: Programming B – Sequencing Events and Actions 

  • E Safety: Online Relationships (Project Evolve). Creating Media – Desktop Publishing 

  • E Safety: Managing Online Information (Project Evolve) 

  • Spanish: Language Angels, Fruit (likes and dislikes), I can (action verbs)

  • PE:  Applying Physical Skills

  • Fundamental skills of coordination with equipment and agility - reaction/response (Green/Red Challenges)

  • Health & Fitness skills

 

 

 

Year 4

  • Science: Group and classify living things. Data collection: A Sustainability States of Matter
  • History: Victorians 
  • Geography: Rain Forests
  • Design Technology: Food (dips)
  • Art: Collage Painting and Drawing
  • PSHE:  Being me in my world.
  • RE: Are all religions equal? Religious tolerance and respect.
  • Music: Mamma Mia
  • Glockenspiel Stage 2
  • Computing: Computing Systems & Networks
  • Creating media- audio
  • Spanish: Presenting Myself (feelings, name& age)
  • Family
  • PE: Personal & Social  skills
  • Fundamental skills of floor movement patterns and one foot balance skills(Blue/Pink Challenges)
  • Fundamental skills of dynamic balance to agility and static seated balance (Blue/Pink Challenges)
  • Science: Light & Seeing, Sound & Hearing and Electrical Circuits
  • History: Anglo Saxons
  • Geography: Transportation
  • Design Technology: App Control
  • Art: Art Deco
  • PSHE:  Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
  • RE: Judaism: Passover and Easter
  • Music: Stop!
  • Writing lyrics linked to a theme
  • Lean On Me
  • Soul/Gospel music and helping one another
  • Computing: I Safe, I Mail, I Program Unit 2
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • In the classroom ( I have got/ I haven’t got)
  • Do You Have A Pet?
  • PE: Gymnastic Skills/Cognitive Skills
  • Fundamental Skills of dynamic balance and static balance small base: (Blue/Pink Challenges)
  • Creative Skills
  • Fundamental skills of co-ordination - ball skills & counterbalance in pairs (Blue/Pink Challenges)
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  • Science: Movement, Forces & Magnets,  Living things & Animals and humans
  • History: Vikings
  • Geography:  International Trade
  • Design Technology: Linked Levers
  • Art: Animals & Symbolism
  • PSHE:  Being Me in My World and Celebrating Difference and Life Skills
  • RE: Judaism: Beliefs and Practices or Buddhism: Buddha’s Teachings, Christmas
  • Music: Blackbird
  • The Beatles/Pop
  • The Beatles, equality and civil rights
  • Reflect, Rewind & Replay
  • The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music
  • Computing: I Program unit 2, I Algorithm, I Do We D
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • Home ( there is/ there are)
  • Vegetables ( I would like)
  • PE: Athletics and Tennis skills
  • Health and Fitness skills
  • Fundamental skills of agility ball chasing and static floor balance work (Blue/Pink Challenges)
  •  Applying Physical Skills
  • Fundamental skills of coordination with equipment and agility - reaction/response (Green/Red Challenges)

 

 

 

Year 5

  • Science:  Forces, Space
  • Sustainability, Property of materials
  • History: Were the Vikings raiders, traders or something else?
  • Geography: What is life like in the Alps.
  • Design Technology:  Food, Bread.
  • Art: Painting and mixed media: Portraits
  • PSHE: Being Me in My World and Celebrating Differences
  • Computing: Computing Systems and networks – system searching
  • Spanish: Presenting Myself
    (feelings, name, age & nationality)
  • Date ( months of the year, birthday)
  • RE: Why do people have to stand up for what they believe in? 
  • Why doesn’t Christianity always look the same?
  • Music: Living on a prayer
  • Classroom Jazz 1
  • PE: Personal and social skills
  • Science:  Properties of materials
  • Animals including humans
  • History: British history – What was life like in Tudor England?
  • Geography: What do oceans matter?
  • Design Technology: Arch structure
  • Art:  Drawing - I need space
  • PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
  • RE: When we die - Part 1
  • When we die - Part 2
  • Music: Make You Feel My Love
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  • Computing: Programming A  - Selection in physical computing
  • Data and information – Flat file databases
  • Spanish: 
  • Weather
  • Clothes
  • PE: Gymnastics and Basketball
  • Science: Reversible and irreversible changes
  • Reproduction,Sustainability
  • History: What did the Greeks ever do for us?  
  • Geography: Would you like to live in the desert?
  • Design Technology: Cams
  • Art: Sculpture and 3D – Interactive installation
  • PSHE:  Relationships and Changing Me
  • RE:  Who should get to be in charge?
  • Why are some places in the world significant to believers?
  • Music: Dancing’ in the Street
  • Reflect, Rewind & Replay
  • Computing: ICreating media – Introduction to vector graphics
  • Spanish:
  • Planets
  • At the cafe
  • PE: Athletics and Rounders

 

 

Year 6

  • Science: Living things and their habitats, electricity and sustainability
  • History: What does the census tell us about our local area?
  • Geography: Why does the population change?
  • Design Technology: Cooking (a meal for a hero)
  • Art: Sculpture and 3D- making memories
  • PSHE: Being me in my world & Celebrating differences
  • RE: Why does religion look different around the world? Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism & Jain
  • PE: Personal & Social Skills Spanish: Me in my world & At school Music: Songs of the Second World War and West African Percussion
  • Science: Light, Sustainability and the circulatory system
  • History: British History- What was the impact of World War II on the people of Britain?
  • Geography: Where does energy come from?
  • Design Technology: Textiles
  • Art: Drawing – make my voice heard PSHE: Dreams & Goals & Healthy me
  • RE: Why is it better to be there in person? Islam, Christianity, Judaism & Humanist Why is there suffering? Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism & Buddhism
  • PE: Cognitive & Creative Skills
  • Spanish: Famous people & in the city
  • Music: Australian music & Brazilian Samba
  • Science: Diet, drugs and lifestyle, variation, adaptation, fossils and sustainability
  • History: Unheard stories- Who should go on the banknote?
  • Geography: Fieldwork enquiry Design Technology: Pulleys & Gears Art: Craft & Design
  • PSHE: Relationships & changing me
  • RE: Why is there suffering? Shinto, Buddhism, Sikhism & Humanists What place does religion have in our world today? Multiple worldviews
  • PE: Health and Fitness/Physical Skills
  • Spanish: At the weekend & Healthy lifestyle
  • Music: Music Technology & Production