Topic Overviews and Maps
The Learning Challenge Curriculum
Long Term Topic Overview
Group | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Reception | Magnificent Me What makes you special? | After Dark What happens when you go to bed? | Explorers and Inventors Are you brave enough? | All Creatues Great and Small Which is the greatest creature?
| Traditional Tales How would you stop the Big Bad Wolf?
| We’re all going on a summer holiday Where would you go on holiday? |
Year 1 | Where do the wheels on the bus go? | Where do the leaves go in Winter? | What has changed since your grandparents were young? | What are the differences between Eastleigh and the Rainforests? | Why did so many houses burn down in the Great Fire? | Why can't a meerkat live in the Northpole? |
Year 2 | What would Bary Baboon find interesting about Eastleigh? | What was it like when the Queen came to the throne in 1953? | Where would you prefer to live: England or Africa? | Why did the Titanic sink?
| Who was the bravest - Christopher Columbus or Neil Armstrong? (Significant people) | Why do we love to be beside the seaside? |
Year 3 | Why do so many people chose to go to the Mediterranean for their holidays? (Human) | Stone Age to Iron Age Which is better stone or iron? | Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis - what makes the Earth so angry? (Physical) | Expanding Eastleigh: a good or bad thing? | Roman Empire in Britain What was the Roman Empire's most significant impact on Britain? | Will you ever see the water that you drink again? |
Year 4 | River study and City locations: Why is the Thames so important to London? (Human) | Saxons and Scots Settlement What have the Saxon's ever done for us? | Why is Russia such a cool place to live? (Physical) | Viking and Anglo Saxon conflict - were the Vikings really brutal invaders? |
Where is the best place to build a City? | Henry VIII's War ship the Mary Rose - What makes the Mary Rose so unique? |
Year 5 | What is so special about the USA? | British study beyond 1066 - theme change of the monarchy | Earliest Civilization - Egyptians What would you find inside a pyramid?
| Why is the Caribbean so popular with tourists?
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Local history study - post 1066 Victorians and the Railway. How did the Victorians shape Eastleigh?
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Why is the Rainforest important to us all? (Physical)
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Year 6 | I’m a Year 6 pupil, can you get me out of here?
| How did the Ancient Greeks change the world?
| Baghdad Mayans - What did the Mayans ever do for us? | China - Physical study (Geography) | "To be, or not to be, that is the question." Sir William Shakespeare | Learning for Life |
Maths and English at our school - Key information booklets
Maths Guidance Booklet
Maths and English Curriculum: Phased Documents
English Phased Approach
The phonics scheme we follow is Essential Letters and Sounds.