WHOLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM

At Water Primary our curriculum is:

• Exciting, inspiring, engaging and stimulating

• Creative and innovative

• Challenging and motivating

• Broad, balanced and relevant to our children and today’s society

• Flexible to allow children to follow their own lines of enquiry

• Enriched and enhanced

• Supported by parents/carers and the community

Our curriculum is pupil centred and underpins our schools motto of Happiness, Health and Opportunity as well as our core values of self belief, resilience, respect and active and healthy.

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Acorn Marvellous Me (UTW)

Looking at myself and my family.

Marvellous Me (UTW)

Events and celebrations important to me.

Willow Wonderful Water (Humanities)

How my school looked in the past

compared to how my school teaches me

now.

Wonderful Water (Humanities)

My school and the local area-where do I fit

in?

Hazel A We All Unite (Humanities)

The wider area-where do I fit in within the

UK?

Incredible People (Humanities)

What can I learn from important people of

the past.

Hazel B We All Unite (Humanities)

The wider area-where do I fit in within the

UK? How does it impact me?

Incredible People (Humanities)

What can I learn from important people of

the past.

Maple A Off to Europe (Humanities)

The wider world-where do I fit in within

Europe? How does it impact me?

Walk Like an Egyptian (Humanities)

What can we learn from the Egyptians?

(Core values)

Maple B Lancashire VS London (Humanities)

How local History effects me today.

Lancashire VS London (Humanities)

What is it like if you live in a contrasting

area. How can that help me?

Blossom Enough for Everyone (Humanities)

How should we conserve energy to

preserve our future?

Invaders and Settlers (Humanities)

What can we learn from the Anglo Saxons,

how can we use these skills to develop

ourselves?

Sequoia Amazing Americas (Humanities)

What would life be like in America? How

does it compare to your life?

Amazing Americas (Humanities)

How did Martin Luther King and other

important individuals change the world?

Does that impact me?

‘Sometimes your mind plays tricks on you. It can tell you you’re no good, that it’s all hopeless. But remember this; you are loved, and

important and you bring joy to this world. Things no one else can. So hold on.’

Charlie Mackesy-The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse.

Our focus in Autumn is to promote the physical and mental health of our children. We want our children to be aware of themselves and the wider world.By the end of the autumn term, children should have:• developed their understanding of who they are and the

place they live • Developed understanding of how the past influences our

lives today• Developed understanding of how the world around them

can impact themselves

Spring 1 Spring 2

Acorn Marvellous Me

Events in family lives

Marvellous Me

Comparisons of different communities

Willow Nurturing Nurses (Humanities)

How did significant nurses effect people then and

how do they effect us now? How can we become

better people?

Weather Experts (Humanities)

How does the weather effect the world and

ourselves? Can it effect our feelings?

Hazel A Fire, Fire (Humanities)

What happened during the great fire of London?

How things change and can they change for the

better?

Oceans and Seas (Humanities)

What can we learn about oceans and seas?

Where are they in the world? Do you like to be

beside the seaside?

Hazel B Toy Story (Humanities)

What toys do we play with now? How do they

compare to toys in the past? Would you have

been happy being a child of the past?

Amazing Australia (Humanities)

What is it like in Australia? How does it compare

to the UK. What would it be like living in

Australia?

Maple A Stone Age. Long, long ago..(Humanities)

How did humanity develop from the stone age?

What was life like then? How have we evolved?

Mighty Mountains (Humanities)

What are the highest mountains in the world?

Why do people settle there?

Maple B God Save the Queens (Humanities)

How have the significant queens in Britain

effected the way we live? What was it like in the

past and how does it compare to now?

God Save the Queens (Humanities)

What is the importance of our monarch?

Blossom Vicious Vikings (Humanities)

How did the Vikings prosper?

Marvellous Maps (Humanities)

How can I find key locations? How have they

changed over time?

Sequoia Food Glorious Food (Humanities)

Where does food come from? How can we

create a sustainable world? What is Fairtrade?

Leisure and Entertainment (Humanities)

How does leisure and entertainment bring joy?

How has it changed

‘If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.’

Roald Dahl- Matilda

By the end of the spring term, children should:• Learn from past events and people and how they

changed the world • Understand and investigate the world and it’s key

features. • Learn how we can shape our future to create a

happy environment

Summer 1 Summer 2

Acorn Marvellous Me (UTW)

Looking at the Royal Family

Marvellous Me (UTW)

Special events around the world and that

are important to other people.

Willow Dungeons and Dragons (Humanities)

What were the first castles like? Who lived

in them? What was it like?

Sensational Safari (Humanities)

What is it like in Africa? How do children

live there? How does it compare to me?

Hazel A Oceans and Seas

What can we learn about oceans and seas?

Where are they in the world? Do you like to

be beside the seaside?

We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday

What were holidays like in the past? How

do they compare to holidays today?

Hazel B Toy Story (Humanities)

What toys do we play with now? How do

they compare to toys in the past? Would

you have been happy being a child of the

past?

Amazing Australia (Humanities)

What is it like in Australia? How does it

compare to the UK. What would it be like

living in Australia?

Maple A Rotten Romans (Humanities)

What happened when the romans

invaded? What lasting impact did they

have?

Rainforests (Humanities)

How can we help save the rainforest?

Maple B Ancients Greeks (Humanities)

Heroes, educationalists and theories.

Extreme Earth (Humanities)

Our amazing earth.

Blossom Raging Rivers and Wonderful Water

(Humanities)

Will water last forever? How are rivers

important?

Mystery of the Mayans (Humanities)

How are the Mayans sustainable? What

was life like for the Mayans?

Sequoia Ancient Islam (Humanities)

What can we learn from Ancient Islam?

How is it similar or different to other ancient

civilisations?

Our Changing World (Humanities)

What will our future look like?

‘G‘Give the children an opportunity to make a garden. Let them

grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.’

Liberty Hyde Bailey

By the end of the summer term, children should:• Have developed their understanding of the

opportunities given to them• Understand how people of the past created

opportunities and a way of living for today• Understand how we can help change the future