Curriculum

To find out about our rich and varied curriculum and to discover what your children will be learning each half term please see the curriculum information below. 

Curriculum Overview

We would like to share with you the curriculum offer overview and vision for our school.

This is a brief insight into what we offer, as part of our curriculum, at our school and how our values contribute to our motto and vision. We hope you find this interesting and informative.

 

 

Half Termly Topic Grids 

For a greater insight into what each topic covers please click on the year group name or see the relevant curriculum map below.

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
EYFS	Who Am I?	What Do you Celebrate?	How can I be a Superhero?	What Can you See at the Farmyard?	How Does Your Garden Grow?	Would You Like to be Beside the Seaside?
Year 1	Teddy's Picnic/Antarctic Adventure	Guess Who (QEII)/Huff & Puff/A Snowman's Tale	London's Burning/Where would you go on holiday?	What's the Weather Like?/Fur, Fish & Feathers	Hero Hunters/What Makes a Poet?	What Makes Britain Great /Happily Ever After
Year 2	Ocean Adventures / Happy Healthy Me	Cast Away/ Time Travellers/Journey to the North Pole	Location, Location / From One Small Seed	Unsinkable? / Looking Through the Keyhole	Around the World with the Three Bears / Once Upon a Poem	Great Britain, Great Britons / No Place Like Home
Year 3	Lost in the Jungle / Rattle My Bones	/ What a Saga / The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles	Flying Food Airways / Fox At Night	Queen Of Snow/ Marvin’s Magnets / Once Upon a Poem	Biome in a Box / Up The Beanstalk	Great Britain, Great Britons / Child of our Time
Year 4	On Top of the World / Pond Patrol/ Shape Shifters	Great Britain, Great Britons  / Veni, Vidi, Vici / A Cracking Christmas	Who Pays the Price? /  Untangling the Greeks	Untangling the Greeks/ It’s Showtime!	Building Britain / Once Upon a Poem	Who Eats What?/Eureka!
Year 5	Wild, Wild World / Join the Force	Out of this World /Beyond Britain / Frozen Folklore	Globetrotters / Revolutionary Recipes	World War 2 /  Once Upon a Poem	Crack the Code / Everything Changes	Great Britain, Great Britons / Magical Mystery Tour
Year 6	Abracadabra / Living Things	Bright Spark / Shang Dynasty / Beyond The Wardrobe	Full Steam Ahead! / Let There Be Light	Changing World / Hearts	Fairtrade! / Once Upon a Poem	Great Britain, Great Britons / A Moment in Time

For a more indepth insight into what each topic covers please see the relevant curriculum map below.

Curriculum maps

• Curriculum Map Overview EYFS
• Curriculum Map Overview Year 1
• Curriculum Map Overview Year 2
• Curriculum Map Overview Year 3
• Curriculum Map Overview Year 4
• Curriculum Map Overview Year 5
• Curriculum Map Overview Year 6

End of Year Expectations 

• EYFS Expectations
• English, Maths and Science End of Year Expectations - KS1 and KS2 
• Foundation Subjects End of Year Expectations - KS1 and KS2 

If you have any queries about the curriculum or would like to discuss them in further detail the Class Teacher is always happy to discuss. 

Please feel free to make an appointment to talk in greater depth.

Our Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum

Children joining us in the Foundation Stage are taught and learn through a play- based provision as set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework 2020 (EYFS). Our skilled teachers plan and deliver an enhanced provision of practical and engaging activities reflective of our reception pupil’s interests and needs.

Pupils are taught using a combination of both adult and child led activities and are offered a range of opportunities to develop and progress in all seven areas of the EYFS and further their cultural capital, inclusive of school trips and extra-curricular events.  

ICT in our Early years: 

At Epping Primary School we take a play-based approach to the teaching of ICT in the Foundation Stage as with our whole EYFS curriculum.  

‘Children growing up today are immersed in new technologies. In the home, going shopping, at the doctors and in the street - technology is embedded in children’s everyday experiences sometimes to the point where it is almost invisible to them. As part of some of their first activities, early technology experiences will include push button activities, remote control devices, musical keyboards, televisions, cash registers, microwave ovens, tills, scanners and interactive books, as well as computers, tablets and phones.’ (Cambridgeshire Progression in Computing Capability 2014).  

Our EYFS pupils experience early coding skills when they learn to follow a sequence of steps, such as how to piece together shapes to create a robot picture. They also gain an early understanding of algorithms when they can recognise that these steps need to be followed in the given order and if a step is missed then the sequence of events does not achieve the desired result.  

As part of an enhanced provision our pupils have access to an interactive white board and Ipads to scaffold their learning using interactive software.  

Phonics at Epping Primary

At Epping Primary School, we believe that all our children can become fluent readers and writers. This is why we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme, validated by the Department for Education.

For full details of how we teach phonics here at Epping Primary please click here to visit our phonics page>>

 Curriculum and SEND

Epping Primary is an inclusive, vibrant, and successful mainstream primary school. We have high expectations for all children, and we set out our Curriculum offer to comply with the statutory requirements laid out in the following guidance and documents: