Curriculum

At Epping Primary School, we aim to provide a broad, balanced and engaging curriculum that enriches the life experiences of all our pupils.

Our curriculum is based on the Sonar Curriculum, which is designed around subject‑specific learning and a spiral structure. This approach allows pupils to revisit key concepts regularly, each time exploring them at a deeper and more complex level. As a result, their long‑term understanding is strengthened and their conceptual knowledge becomes more secure.

To explore our rich and varied curriculum, and to see what your child will be learning each half term, please refer to the curriculum information below. Parents may also find it helpful to visit our other curriculum pages, including Curriculum by Subject, for further detail and additional information.

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?/ Do You Know this Nursery Rhyme?	What Do You Celebrate?/Who Helps In Our Community?	Who Were The Dinosaurs?	What Can you See at the Farmyard?	How Does Your Garden Grow? / What's Out in Space?	Will This Story Have a 'Happy Ever After'? /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 / Shape Shifters/Great Britain, Great Britons	/ Veni, Vidi, Vici / A Cracking Christmas	Who Pays the Price? / Untangling the Greeks	It’s Showtime!/Pond Patrol	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

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.

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.

For full details of our EYFS Curriculum please click here to visit the EYFS Curriculum page

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 For All

Our curriculum offer complies with statutory requirements and is informed by:

SEND Code of Practice: 0–25 years (2015, updated 2024)
Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duty
Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023
Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions (updated 2017)
National Curriculum in England (2014 framework and subsequent updates)
EYFS Statutory Framework (where applicable)
Relationships Education and Health Education statutory guidance
Teachers' Standards (2012, updated guidance 2021)
Prevent Duty Guidance
Epping Primary Accessibility Plan
Epping Primary Safeguarding Policy

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