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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: Light & Seeing, Sound & hearing , Animals & Humans and Evolution & Inheritance
  • History: Key National Events in the past and Historical People: The Great Fire of London
  • Geography: Continents of the World
  • Design Technology:  Wheel & Axel Mechanisms
  • Art: Drawing & painting
  • PSHE: Being Me in My World and Celebrating Difference
  • RE: Christianity: What did Jesus Teach? and Christmas
  • Music: Hands, Feet, Heart
  • South African music
  • Ho Ho Ho
  • Rapping and improvising for Christmas
  • Computing: I Program Unit 1 ,I Search, I Animate
  • 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, Earth & Space & Movement, Forces & Magnets
  • Key events and people in the past that are significant globally: The Moon landing
  • Geography: Oceans of the World
  • Design Technology: Food (healthy snack)
  • Art:
  • PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
  • RE: Judaism: Passover OR Islam: Prayer at Home, Easter
  • Music: I Wanna Play In a Band
  • Playing together in a band
  • Zootime
  • Reggae and animals
  • Computing: I Compute: I Animate, I Safe, I Pub, I Blog
  • 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 &  Living things
  • History: Key people in the past that are significant globally: 
  • Martin Luther King
  • Geography: Climate & Weather
  • Design Technology: Textiles & Joining
  • Art: Landscapes
  • PSHE: Relationships and Changing Me
  • RE: Judaism: The Covenant or Islam: Community and Belonging, Judaism: Rites of Passage and good works OR Islam: Hajj
  • 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: I Blog, I Do Mail, I Program Unit 2
  • 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: Plants & Animals and Humans
  • History: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to Bronze Age. 
  • Geography: Europe
  • Design Technology: Paper Circuits
  • Art: Abstract Art
  • PSHE:  Being Me in My World and Celebrating Difference
  • RE: Hinduism: Diwali or Sikhism: The Amrit Ceremony   and the Khalsa and Christmas
  • Music: Let Your Spirit Fly
  • RnB and other styles
  • Glockenspiel Stage 1
  • Exploring & developing playing skills
  • Computing: I Program, I Simulate, I Network
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • I am learning Spanish 
  • 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: Electrical Circuits, Movements, Forces & Magnets & Living Things
  • History: Iron Age & The Romans
  • Geography: Landscapes: weathering, rivers and mountains
  • Design Technology: Shell Structures
  • Art: Abstract Art
  • PSHE:  Relationships and Changing Me
  • RE: Hinduism: Beliefs of Sikhism: Sharing and the Community and Hinduism: Pilgrimage to the River Ganges or Sikhism: Prayer and Worship
  • 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: I Network, I Safe, I Data, I Connect
  • 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: Materials, Sound & Hearing and Light & Seeing
  • History: Significant places in their own locality: London
  • Geography:  The Water Cycle and Climate Change
  • Design Technology: Food (vegetable soup)
  • Art: Myths, Legends & Space
  • PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
  • RE: Christianity: Jesus’ miracles, Easter
  • 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: I Connect, I Podcast, I Do We Do
  • 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
  • Fundamental skills of agility ball chasing & static floor balance  (Green/Red Challenges)

 

 

 

 

Year 4

  • Science: Materials & Plants
  • History: Ancient Egypt
  • Geography: Erosion & Deposition
  • Design Technology: Food (dips)
  • Art: Art Deco
  • PSHE:  Relationships and Changing Me
  • RE: Judaism: Rites of Passage and good works or Buddhism: The 8-fold path, Prayer and Christianity: Worship
  • Music: Mamma Mia
  • ABBA’s music
  • Glockenspiel Stage 2
  • Exploring and developing playing skills using the glockenspiel
  • Computing: I Program Unit 1, I Data, I Animate
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • Presenting myself (feeling, name and 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: Movement, Forces & Magnets and Materials
  • History: Tudors
  • Geography: North America   
  • Design Technology:  Arch Structures
  • Art: Futurism & Cultural Tradition
  • PSHE: Being Me in My World and Celebrating Differences
  • Computing: I Program Unit 1, I Draw
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • Presenting myself( feeling, name, age, nationality)
  • Date ( months of the year, birthday)
  • RE: Sikhism: Belief into action or Hinduism: Prayer and Worship, Christmas
  • Music: Livin’ On a Prayer
  • Rock Anthems
  • Classroom Jazz 1
  • Bossa Nova and Swing
  • Jazz and Improvisation
  • PE: Personal and social skills
  • Science: Living things, Evolution & Inheritance & Animals and Humans
  • History: Victorians
  • Geography: Volcanos and Earthquakes
  • Design Technology: Food (bread)
  • Art:  Surrealism & Cultural Tradition
  • PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
  • RE: Sikhism: Beliefs and moral values or Hindu Values, Easter
  • Music: Make You Feel My Love
  • Pop Ballads
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  • Old School Hip-Hop
  • Computing: I Safe, I Crypto, I Web
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • Weather
  • Clothes
  • PE: Gymnastics and Basketball
  • Science: Earth and space, Electrical Circuits, Light & Seeing and Sound & Hearing
  • History: Mayan Civilization
  • Geography: Biomes and Climate Zones
  • Design Technology: Cams
  • Art: Surrealism
  • PSHE:  Relationships and Changing Me
  • RE:  Sikhism: Prayer and worship or Hinduism: Beliefs and moral values, Christian beliefs and Practices
  • Music: Dancing’ in the Street
  • Mo town
  • Reflect, Rewind & Replay
  • The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music
  • Computing: I Web, I Program Unit 2, I Model
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • Planets
  • At the cafe
  • PE: Athletics and Rounders

 

 

Year 6

  • Science: Light & Seeing, Sound & Hearing and Materials
  • History: Ancient Greece
  • Geography: Using Maps
  • Design Technology: Pulleys & Gears
  • Art: Art & Fashion & Pop Art
  • PSHE: Celebrating Differences
  • RE: Islam: Beliefs and Practices, Christianity-Christmas
  • Music: Happy
  • Being happy!
  • Classroom Jazz 2 Bacharach and Blues
  • Jazz, improvisation and composition
  • Computing: I Program unit 1, I Network, I Safe
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • Me in the world
  • The Olympics ( sports)
  • PE: Creative and social skills
  • Science: Movement, Forces & Magnets, Evolution and inheritance & Animals and humans
  • History: World War II
  • Geography: South America   
  • Design Technology: Textiles (joining fabric)
  • Art: Art & Fashion, Pop Art & Art & Religion
  • PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
  • RE: Christianity: Belief and Meaning , Easter
  • Music A New Year Carol
  • Classical or Urban
  • Gospel
  • Benjamin Britten’s music and cover versions
  • You’ve Got a Friend
  • The music of Carole King
  • Computing: I Compute: I Safe, I Data
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • The regular verbs
  • At school
  • PE: Gymnastics and Tennis
  • Science: Earth & Space, Light & Seeing, Sound & Hearing, Living Things and Electrical Circuits
  • History: Islamic Civilization
  • Geography: Ocean Currents
  • Design Technology: Food (bolognaise)
  • Art: Expressionism & Art and Religion
  • PSHE:  Relationships and Changing Me
  • RE: Islam: Beliefs and Moral Values
  • Music: Music and Me
  • Create your own music inspired by your identity and women in the music industry
  • Reflect, Rewind and Replay
  • Computing: I Compute: I App, I Program Unit 2, I Model
  • Spanish: Language Angels
  • At weekend
  • Healthy lifestyle
  • PE: Athletics and Cricket