Spring Curriculum
Spring Curriculum
Our Curriculum follows a two year cycle with interim changes given children's pathway through school. Our Spring Term always starts with our Prevent Day - a day to focus on creating a fairer, equitable and stronger world. Building children's empathy through the vehicle of our Christian Values, our Mission Statement and our School Bible Verse alongside fiction and poetry we develop children's understanding of their place in the world in which they live and their responsibilities too!
Spring Curriculum 2026
Spring Unit 1 - Science and DT Bias
EYFS and Key Stage 1 - Look at Me and Living It Up
EYFS and Key Stage 1 explore the amazing potential of their human bodies through a scientific lens.
EYFS children explore all their wonderful senses and learn about bodily responses. They get to know people who help us through our lives to support this including opticians, audiologists, doctors and nurses.
Key Stage 1 extend their knowledge of the human body and learn scientific vocabulary. They explore the impact of healthy living including diet and exercise on the human boday.
Children will develop their skills in Design and Technology to create healthy food which will provide the nutrition needed to support their healthy bodies.
Key Stage 2 - Spring into Action
Children in Key Stage 2 will be springing into action through the exploration of physics.
Lower Key Stage 2 children will investigate forces including pushes and pulls and magnetism. They will apply their learning in science to design and create a marble run in Design and Technology.
Year 4 and 5 will explore friction and forces through practical scientific investigations. They will then transfer their knowledge to create a ramp or racing track in Design and Technology.
Year 5 and 6 will be developing their understanding of resistance through the investigation of gravity, air and water resistance. Their skills will be then utilised in the design and creation of a product that uses pulleys and cams.
Spring Unit 2 - a unit to develop Geography, Citizenship and refine the skills needed in DT.
Team GB and We are the World
Children in EYFS will develop their sense of place and community and begin to engage in different ways our world is represented - aeriel photographs; maps; atlases, routes. They will use lots of stories and rhymes to develop directional language and using the soles of their feet will explore our local community. They will learn a little about Fairtrade and will learn to spot Fairtrade logos when making food choices.
Key Stage 1 children will develop an understanding of Great Britain and learn about its composition developing familiarity with maps and atlases. They will learn capital cities and spot land and sea on different visuals. They will build on their understanding of Fairtrade to persuade others to choose Fairtrade where possible.
One World
Children in Year 3 and 4 will widen their connections with the wider world to explore Food & Farming, Biomes & Vegetation
while Year 4 and 5 will begin to understand how climates are an important association with different parts of the world and the impact of extreme weathers including floods & droughts. They will see the importance of water conservation and share their findings to persuade others to make wise choices.
Year 5 and 6 will develop their understanding of energy & renewable energy and embark on an initiative to encourage responsible use.
Spring Curriculum 2025
We then launch into our wider curriculum focus with a bias of Science, Design and Technology.
Children in nursery and reception children get hands-on for the 'Let's Build' topic - taking inspiration from our people, culture and communities they will explore local buildings and significant landmarks to make their own creations while learning about the materials they are using.
Key Stage One develop this previous learning by exploring types and properties of materials in their topic 'All change' leading to selecting and using materials for their own creations where children are asked to design and make a shelter to protect from the rain and wind. Taking inspiration from the achievements of John Dunlop, Charles Macintosh and John McAdam too!
Key Stage Two move into the physics aspects of science - exploring light, shadows, reflection and developing an understanding of energy, electricity and circuits in Upper Key Stage 2. They will use the knowledge from their learning to design shadow puppet theatres, free-standing light up structures or electronic games!
As the term progresses, we move on to our geographical biased unit 'One World'
Our EYFS children develop their familiarity with our locality, its weather patterns, climate and its features and then compare this to life in Australia meeting lots of wombats and kangaroos on their journey.
Year 3 and 4 have a study of rainforests and habitats, for year 4 and 5 it's volcanoes and earthquakes and Year 5 and 6 have a mountain or river study.
This sits alongside learning in science@-
EYFS - Changing Seasons
Key Stage 1 - Seasonal Changes
Year 3 and 4 - Habitats and classification
Year 5 and 6 - Earth and Space