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