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	It's All About Me	Celebrate With Me	How to be a Superhero	Farmyard Fun	How Does Your Garden Grow?	Oh, I Do 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/All Year Round	Happy Holidays /Fur, Fish & Feathers	Hero Hunters/Once Upon a Poem	Great Britain, Great Britons/Far, Far away....
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.

Curriculum Meeting Slides

Please find below the slides from the 23/24 Curriculum meetings:

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4
• Year 5
• Year 6

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: