School Curriculum
School Curriculum Statement: Intent, Implementation & Impact
Our school curriculum details how and when we teach the statutory national curriculum as well as other aspects of learning that we feel are important for a child to experience during their time here at The Meadows.
Our school curriculum is based around a number of different termly themes or 'topics', which we operate on a two-year cycle. For more information about each topic and the learning that children will undertake, please see the documents below.
For more detailed information about each subject that we teach here at The Meadows, please go to out subject information page here.
| 2023-2024 | 2024-2025 |
2025 -2026 |
2026-2027 |
2027-2028 |
| Cycle B | Cycle A |
Cycle B |
Cycle A |
Cycle B |
|
Key Stage 1 |
Autumn term |
Spring Term |
Summer Term |
|
KS1 – Cycle A |
Fire, Fire! |
Voyages of Discovery |
The Big Build |
|
KS1 – Cycle B |
Animal Magic |
To market, to market. |
Wellies and Flip-flops |
|
Key Stage 2 |
Autumn term |
Spring Term |
Summer Term |
|
Lower KS2 – Cycle A |
Vicious Vikings |
Castle Quest |
Commit the crime, do the time! |
|
Lower KS2 – Cycle B |
Ty Mawr |
A City in Ruins |
The Walled City |
|
Upper KS2 – Cycle A |
Mayan Mania |
Bright Lights, Big City |
Poles Apart |
|
Upper KS2 – Cycle B |
Buried Under the Sand |
A Greek Odyssey |
Sailing the Severn |
|
Year 6 |
Pack Up Your Troubles |
Around the World in 80 Days |
Climb Every Mountain |
Curriculum - Progression of Skills
- Computing - Progression Overview Y1 - 6PDF File
- Geography - Progression Overview Y1- 6PDF File
- History - Progression Overview Y1- 6PDF File
- Music- Progression Overview Y1- 6PDF File
- Design Technology - Hierarchy of SkillsPDF File
- Art & Design - Skills progressionPDF File
- French - Progression OverviewPDF File
- Pathways to Write - Feature keys progressionPDF File
- Progression document for tracking skills backPDF File
- Music - Progression of skills and knowledge KapowPDF File
- DT Progression of skills within four strandsPDF File
- Progression of Scientific Enquiry Skills.pdfPDF File
- Art- progression of skillsPDF File
- Progression in Art and Design Skills - Upper KS2PDF File
- Progression in Art and Design Skills - Lower KS2PDF File
- Progression in Art and Design Skills - KS1PDF File
- Science - Development of Knowledge Y1 to Y6PDF File
- French progression of knowledge overviewPDF File
- Overview of objectives Y2.pdfPDF File
- Overview of objectives Y3.pdfPDF File
- Overview of objectives Y4.pdfPDF File
- Overview of objectives Y5.pdfPDF File
- Overview of objectives Y6.pdfPDF File
- Maths Calculation Methods for Year 1PDF File
- Maths Calculation Methods for Year 2PDF File
- Maths Calculation Methods for Year 3PDF File
- Maths Calculation Methods for Year 4PDF File
- Maths Calculation Methods for Year 5PDF File
- Maths Calculation Methods for Year 6PDF File
- RSE & PSHE Progression of Skills and Knowledge. Please contact the school for the password to open the document.PDF File
Curriculum Overviews - Long-term subject plans
- PE Long-term overview (Cycle A)PDF File
- PE Long-term overview (Cycle B)PDF File
- Computing Long Term Overview 2026.pdfPDF File
- Online Safety Lessons OverviewPDF File
- Design Technology Long Term PlanPDF File
- Science Long Term PlanPDF File
- Art Long Term Plan for KS1PDF File
- Art Long Term Plan for LKS2PDF File
- Art Long Term Plan for UKS2PDF File
- Art Objectives for EYFSPDF File
- Maths Unit PlansPDF File
- Maths Curriculum OverviewPDF File
- National Curriculum Alignment for MathsXLSX File
- RSE & PSHE long term plan. Please contact the school to access this document.PDF File