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?	Frozen! When will Winter end?	All Creatues Great and Small Which is the greatest creature?	If you go down to the woods Who lives in the fairy tale woods?	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)	Where is the best place to build a City?	Viking and Anglo Saxon conflict - were the Vikings really brutal invaders?	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?	Local history study - post 1066 Victorians and the Railway. How did the Victorians shape Eastleigh?	Why is the Rainforest important to us all? (Physical)
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 and English Curriculum: Phased Documents

English Phased Approach

The phonics scheme we follow is Letters and Sounds.

Maths Phased Approach

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