Curriculum overview
Our Aim: Learning for Life
As a state primary school we teach the National Curriculum, which outlines every child’s legal entitlement to a broad and balanced education. Building on this foundation of core knowledge, we are commited to shaping a unique Queen Emma Curriculum, which provides first-class educational opportunities for all our children.
Our central aim is Learning for Life, developing a curriculum that inspires a livelong love of learning and equips our pupils with key skills and qualities they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Our Approach: A Skills-Based Curriculum
The curriculum at Queen Emma is organised around 5 key skills:
- Investigating
- Problem Solving
- Creating
- Communicating
- Evaluating
These skills are developed through every subject we teach and every topic the children learn. As children move up through the school, these skills are build on cumulatively. Teachers plan for these key skills using phase skills grids which can be downloaded below:
Our Curriculum: Year Group Plans
We teach our curriculum through topics to provide a rich context for the children’s learning and help them to make links within it. The following topics are taught in each year group:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nursery | Dear Zoo | The Gingerbread Man | The Little Red Hen | Then Enormous Turnip | The Three Billy Goats Gruff | Goldilocks and the Three Bears |
| Reception | All About Me | Light and Dark | Let's Celebrate | Let It Grow! | Tell Me a Story | Out of this World! |
| Y1 | Action and Adventure | Space | Under The Sea | Castles | Explorers | Mmmm! Food! |
| Y2 | The Body Machine | Traditional Tales | Fire and Ice | Nature Detectives | Around the World (Africa, America ,Australia) | Around the World (Africa, America ,Australia) |
| Y3 | The Stunning Stone Age | India & its Neighbours (BIPS) | Togatastic: The Ancient Greeks | Viva La France! | Ahoy There! Pirates | The Natural Environment |
| Y4 | The Romans | Explorers | Travel To The Golden Age | Electricity | Changes | Journey Through The Body |
| Y5 | Ancient Britain | Space Academy | Climbing Mountains | Mini Enterprise | Arriving In Africa | Ancient Egypt |
| Y6 | World War 2 | South America | Cambridge University | Fairtrade | Buddhism | Volcanoes and Earthquakes |