Curriculum by Year Group
EYFS Curriculum Map
At Lapal Primary, our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum offers a rich and balanced start to learning, built around play, exploration, and children’s interests. Through themed topics such as Let’s Celebrate, Our Wonderful World, and Let’s Explore, we nurture curiosity and creativity while developing essential skills across all areas of learning. Children grow in personal, social and emotional development by building friendships, understanding feelings, and learning to keep safe and healthy. Physical development is supported through fun, active sessions in gymnastics, dance, ball skills, athletics, and games. Communication and language skills are strengthened through listening, questioning, storytelling, and expressive communication. Understanding the world is fostered by exploring family, community, cultural celebrations, nature, and history, while expressive arts and design inspire creativity through art, music, and performance. Our aim is to create a safe, stimulating environment where every child feels valued and ready for the next stage of their learning journey.
Year 1 Curriculum Map
This year, Year 1 pupils will enjoy a rich and varied curriculum that nurtures curiosity and creativity across all subjects. In science, they will explore seasonal changes, everyday materials, their bodies, animals, and plant growth. Art and design will include sketching, painting techniques, and clay sculpture, while computing introduces basic computer skills, coding, spreadsheets, and animated storybooks. Design and technology projects will cover sliders and levers, wheels and axles, and healthy fruit dishes. Geography and history topics include weather patterns, the United Kingdom, our school, grandparents, and explorers. Music lessons focus on rhythm, singing, recorders, and performances such as the KS1 Production and Easter Service. Physical education develops skills through yoga, gymnastics, dance, athletics, and team games. Pupils will also learn about faith and celebrations in RE, alongside PSHE themes such as friendships, safe relationships, respect, health and wellbeing, and growing and changing.
Year 2 Curriculum Map
This year, Year 2 pupils will follow an engaging curriculum that builds knowledge and skills across a wide range of subjects. In science, they will study habitats, explore everyday materials, and learn about growth, survival, and plants. Art lessons will include self-portraits, painting with warm and cool colours, and creating 2D relief portraits using mixed media. Computing will develop digital skills through creating books, using buttons and instructions, questioning, and presenting information. Design and technology projects will focus on freestanding structures, making glove puppets, and preparing healthy fruit and vegetable dishes. Geography topics include our wonderful world, Africa, and the seaside at St Ives, while history covers the Great Fire of London, remembrance, and a local study of Bournville and the Cadbury legacy. Music will feature recorder playing, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and sea shanties, alongside performances in the KS1 Production and Easter Service. PE will include yoga, gymnastics, dance, athletics, and a variety of team games. Pupils will also explore faith and celebrations in RE, and PSHE themes such as friendships, safe relationships, respect, money and work, health and wellbeing, and growing and changing.
Year 3 Curriculum Map
This year, Year 3 pupils will experience a stimulating curriculum that deepens understanding and encourages creativity. In science, they will investigate forces and magnets, health and movement, states of matter, plant growth, and sound. Art lessons will explore portraying feelings through drawing, botanical illustration, and Picasso-inspired 2D relief work. Computing will develop coding skills with sequencing, conditional events, and variables, alongside branching databases, web exploration, and online safety. Design and technology projects include creating shell structures using CAD, preparing healthy snacks, and designing moving creatures. Geography topics cover the UK’s counties and cities and natural phenomena such as volcanoes and earthquakes, while history focuses on the Roman Empire’s impact on Britain and Anglo-Saxon and Scots settlements. Music will feature glockenspiel playing and works by composers such as Anna Meredith, Wagner, and Smetana, with performances at the Carol Service and KS2 Production. PE will include yoga, gymnastics, dance, football, hockey, cricket, athletics, and outdoor adventurous activities. Pupils will also learn about Christianity and Islam in RE, and PSHE themes such as relationships, living in the wider world, health and wellbeing, and keeping safe, alongside Spanish language skills in phonetics, vocabulary for fruits and vegetables, and cultural enrichment.
Year 4 Curriculum Map
This year, Year 4 pupils will follow a diverse and challenging curriculum that builds knowledge and skills across all subjects. In science, they will study rocks, fossils and soil, eating and digestion, light, circuits and conductors, and living environments. Art lessons will include drawing for packaging design, painting to capture a sense of place, and creating 2D relief artwork such as a dragon’s eye. Computing will develop coding skills with variables, loops, and motion control, alongside stop-motion animation, spreadsheets, and online safety. Design and technology projects will involve making soup, creating lever-based posters, and designing textile containers. Geography topics include extreme earth, South America and its rainforests, and settlement patterns, while history explores the Stone Age to Iron Age and ancient Egypt. Music will feature glockenspiel playing and works by composers such as Mason Bates, Brahms, and Villa-Lobos, with opportunities for performance. PE will include yoga, gymnastics, dance, swimming, tag rugby, tennis, athletics, golf, and outdoor adventurous activities. Pupils will also learn about Christianity and Islam in RE, and PSHE themes such as relationships, living in the wider world, health and wellbeing, and keeping safe, alongside Spanish language skills in phonetics, vocabulary for seasons, shapes, animals, and presenting themselves.
Year 5/6 Curriculum Map
This year, pupils in Years 5 and 6 will engage with a broad and stimulating curriculum that prepares them for the next stage of learning. In science, they will explore properties and changes of materials, Earth and space, forces in action, life cycles, and changes and reproduction. Art will include still-life drawing, landscape painting inspired by Monet, and creating abstract 3D forms using wire and mixed media. Computing will develop advanced coding and digital skills through work on speed, direction, coordinates, databases, simulations, search engines, and game design. Design and technology projects will involve building small-scale structures, creating simple electrical circuits, and designing alarming vehicles. Geography topics include weather studies, climate zones, and changes in the local area, while history covers the Industrial Revolution, Mayan civilisation, and the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle. Music will feature composition and keyboard skills, with works by Hans Zimmer and Edward Elgar, alongside performance opportunities. PE will include yoga, gymnastics, dance, athletics, swimming, football, tennis, hockey, and outdoor adventurous activities. Pupils will also study Christianity and Islam in RE, and PSHE themes such as friendships, safe relationships, community, media literacy, health and wellbeing, and growing and changing, while Spanish lessons will cover phonics, family, school, clothes, pets, and weather.