Topic Grid

Year Group

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Preschool

Colour

Recognising colour, fruits, material, clothes, patterns

Colour in our world/ colour in seasons

Changes in Insects

Weather around the world

Myself

My Family/Who am I?

My body/How we use our body/ Senses

Keeping Healthy

Taking Care of Baby

Where in the World are we from?

Foods from our country

Living World

What is living? How things grow

Looking at animals

Who lives in a house like this?

Materials for making homes

Life Under the Sea

 

 

Reception

Healthy Food/Keeping Fit & Healthy

Weather/Celebrations

Nursery Rhymes/Traditional Tales

Preparing Food

Chinese New Year

People who help us (nurses, firefighters, doctors, pilots, police)

Animals – Zoo & Jungle animals

Mini Beasts

Dinosaurs

Pirates & under the sea

Transport and Holidays

 

 

Year 1

Ourselves/Sound & Hearing

Where in the World is Barnaby Bear?

Toys Past & Present

Self-portraits                                  

   Moving Pictures

Growing Plants/Pushes & Pulls

Our Local Area

Qatar Past & Present

Can Buildings speak?

Playgrounds

Sorting Materials/Light & Dark

Kenya

What were homes like long ago?

Investigating Material

Homes

 

 

Year 2

Amazing Plants & animals/ Health and growth

Fantastic Florence/ Investigating our local area

Picture This /  Puppets

Seaside Holidays in the Past / Going to the Seaside

Using Electricity / Variation

Vehicles / Mother Nature

Great Fire of London / An Island Home

Grouping and changing materials / Forces and Movement

Joseph’s Coat / Can buildings speak?

 

 

Year 3

Invaders & Settlers -The Romans

Weather Around the World             Materials/Rocks & Soils

Relationships -Keith Haring  

Moving Monsters

Helping Plants Grow/ Light &Shadows

Treasure

What’s In the News?

Investigating Pattern/ Monet

Picture Frames

 

Springs & Magnets/ Teeth & Healthy Eating

Ancient Civilisations (Indus Valley)

Geography and Numbers

Can We Change Places?

Gormley

Making A Sandwich & Designing a Carton for it

 

 

Year 4

Detectives

         Habitats/Moving & Growing

Improving the Environment/Landscapes

Henry Moore/ Sculpture

Settlements – ref to growth in Doha, Qatar

Rich & Poor Tudors

Pattern/Sewing Skills/Renee Mackintosh

Keeping Warm/Solids & Liquids

Friction/Circuits & Conductors/Electricity

A Village in India

Investigating Patterns/Matisse

Using Electrical Circuits

 

 

Year 5

Keeping Healthy/Changing sounds

WW2/Atlas skills

Still-life and musical instruments

Changing State/Gases all around

Rivers/Deserts/Making a Business

Picasso/Bread and biscuits

Life Cycles/Earth, Sun and Moon

Ancient Greeks

Containers/Greek pots

 

 

Year 6

Interdependence & Adaptation/How to set

up, conduct and write up an experiment

Micro organisms – Health & Hygiene

Mountains (QCA) – tourism & affect

Perspective 

Forces/All About  Dissolving/Reversible &

Irreversible

Victorians

People in Action

Design a Slipper

  

Light & Sound

Andy Warhol

Building a Model Theatre

Sense of Place

Britain Through The Decades

Shakespeare