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 value equations 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	Farmyard Fun	How Does Your Garden Grow?	How to be a Superhero	Oh, I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside!
Year 1	Antarctic Adventure/Teddy's Picnic	Huff & Puff/Guess Who/A Snowman's Tale	Happy Holidays / All Year Round	London's Burning / 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 / Up The Beanstalk	Rattle My Bones / What a Saga / Queen Of Snow	Flying Food Airways / Marvin’s Magnets	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles / Fox At Night / Professor Rock	Biome in a Box / Once Upon a Poem	Great Britain, Great Britons / Child of our Time
Year 4	On Top of the World / Pond Patrol	Who Eats What? / Veni, Vidi, Vici /	Who Pays the Price? / Shape Shifters	Untangling the Greeks / It’s Showtime!	Building Britain / Once Upon a Poem	Great Britain, Great Britons / Eureka!
Year 5	Wild, Wild World / Out of this World	Join the Force / World War 2 / Frozen Folklore	Globetrotters / Revolutionary Recipes	Beyond Britain / Once Upon a Poem	Crack the Code / Everything Changes	Great Britain, Great Britons / Magical Mystery Tour
Year 6	Abracadabra / Let There Be Light	Bright Spark / Groovy Greeks / Beyond The Wardrobe	Full Steam Ahead! / I Heart Me	Changing World / Darwin’s Discovery	Fairtrade! / / Once Upon a Poem	Great Britain, Great Britons / A Moment in Time

For a wonderful 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.

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: