The attached Overview is for the Thematic Unit, ‘Prove It!’ This Overview covers the LKS2 Curriculum for England. The theme includes: Thematic Unit in Word & PDF Format Curriculum Coverage Overview Document in Word & PDF Format Thematic Approach Guidance A Guide to the Carousel Planning Activity. Purchase the entire set here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/prove-it-a-thematic-unit-a-full-term-of-connected-learning-activities-lks2-12468834

The attached Overview is for the Thematic Unit, Reach for the Stars! This Overview covers the UKS2 Curriculum for England. The theme includes: Thematic Unit in Word & PDF Format Curriculum Coverage Overview Document in Word & PDF Format Thematic Approach Guidance A Guide to the Carousel Planning Activity. Purchase the entire set here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reach-for-the-stars-thematic-unit-a-term-of-connected-learning-activities-uks2-12468839

The attached Overview is for the Thematic Unit, Through the Eyes of a Child! This Overview covers the UKS2 Curriculum for England. The theme includes: Thematic Unit in Word & PDF Format Curriculum Coverage Overview Document in Word & PDF Format Thematic Approach Guidance A Guide to the Carousel Planning Activity. Purchase the entire set here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/through-the-eyes-of-a-child-thematic-unit-connected-learning-activities-uks2-12468840

The attached Overview is for the Thematic Unit, ‘Splish, Splash, Splosh!’ This Overview covers the EYFS Curriculum for England. However, due to the broad and balanced nature of the themes, it can be used in KS1 (see other Overview) and across different curriculums!

Focus: Citizenship, Empathy, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Human and physical geography, Impact of War, Locational knowledge, Moral Character, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Place Knowledge, Refugees, World War II. Some concepts are too big for children to embrace. War is just one of them. However, they can empathise with other children so easily. In this theme, they learn about evacuation and rationing and how life during WW2 affected the children who lived through it. They also explore emotions and feelings in a safe and secure environment! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/through-the-eyes-of-a-child-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468842

Focus: Cultural Understanding, Dance, Earth and Space, Economic Awareness, Employability, ICT Skills, Media Awareness, Personal and Mutual Understanding, Scientific Investigation, Setting Personal Target, Working Scientifically. Research about and exploration of the Solar System engage the children in this stimulating and exciting theme. They learn about our nearest neighbours in space and journey to real and imaginary planets in the footsteps of astronauts and astronomers. Our fixation with celebrities is also explored as children learn about positive role models and the pitfalls of fame. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reach-for-the-stars-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468843

Focus: Victorians, Ancient Greece, Design and Technology, Economic Awareness, Electricity, Employability, Ethical Awareness, History of Music, Light, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Roman Empire, Sound, Spiritual Understanding, The Shang Dynasty, Working Scientifically. Just how inventive the Victorians were and why is one of the features of this theme. Children learn how these early inventors and their great inventions still impact our lives today. They explore how, without the determination and ability of these people, we would not have many of the things we rely on today. They trace the development of the telephone from tin can to human appendage! A wonderful theme to engage all learners! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/invention-and-ingenuity-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468856

Focus: Animals, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Education for Sustainable Development, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Evolution and Inheritance, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Human and physical geography, Living things and their habitats, Locational knowledge, Media Awareness, Moral Character, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Place Knowledge, Plants, Statistics, Working Scientifically. It’s no longer relevant enough to just know where the rainforests are and what an ideal rainforest looks like. In this theme, children confront the reality of the ‘impact’ of global issues on these immensely important forests, the lungs of our world. They learn about the urgency for action if these amazing and diversely rich ecosystems are to survive man’s insatiable appetite for the products, they can plunder them for. What can each one of us do to have a real ‘impact’ ourselves? Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/impact-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468866

Focus: Citizenship, Diet and Nutrition, Digital Citizenship, Economic Awareness, Employability, Lifestyle Impact, Media Awareness, Personal Health, Personal/Mutual Understanding. Children learn how to be all kinds of “wise”. From internet wise, street wise and money wise to health wise. Children explore ways of keeping themselves safe and healthy. This theme also helps children moving on to secondary school education as it looks at the challenges facing them as they move on. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/are-you-wise-moving-on-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468861

Focus: British History, Cultural Understanding, Employability, Mutual Understanding, Personal Understanding, Scientific Investigation, Use of ICT, Working Scientifically. A hunt for evidence and primary sources engages children in this very interactive and interesting theme. Children find out how we know about Early Man as much as what we know. They see how evidence of different kinds is used in the jobs of many people. They set up scientific activities and experiments in a quest to prove hypotheses! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/prove-it-curriculum-coverage-overview-lks2-12468844

Focus: Victorians, Ancient Greece, Design and Technology, Economic Awareness, Electricity, Employability, Ethical Awareness, History of Music, Light, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Roman Empire, Sound, Spiritual Understanding, The Shang Dynasty, Working Scientifically. Just how inventive the Victorians were and why is one of the features of this theme. Children learn how these early inventors and their great inventions still impact our lives today. They explore how, without the determination and ability of these people, we would not have many of the things we rely on today. They trace the development of the telephone from tin can to human appendage! A wonderful theme to engage all learners! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/invention-and-ingenuity-curriculum-coverage-overview-lks2-12468863

Focus: Animals, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Education for Sustainable Development, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Evolution and Inheritance, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Human and physical geography, Living things and their habitats, Locational knowledge, Media Awareness, Moral Character, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Place Knowledge, Plants, Statistics, Working Scientifically. It’s no longer relevant enough to just know where the rainforests are and what an ideal rainforest looks like. In this theme, children confront the reality of the ‘impact’ of global issues on these immensely important forests, the lungs of our world. They learn about the urgency for action if these amazing and diversely rich ecosystems are to survive man’s insatiable appetite for the products, they can plunder them for. What can each one of us do to have a real ‘impact’ ourselves? Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/impact-curriculum-coverage-overview-lks2-12468850

Focus: Animals, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Education for Sustainable Development, Employability, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Living things and their habitats, Measurement, Media Awareness, Personal Health, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Properties of Shapes, Statistics, Uses of Materials, Working Scientifically. An extensive and varied theme. Children investigate the materials used in building and explore the process of building a house. Comparing and contrasting homes in the past they deepen their understanding of how and why materials are used as well as how things change. They travel the world looking around the types of houses other children live in and learning about how these homes are ideal in their location. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/home-sweet-home-curriculum-coverage-overview-lks2-12468854

Design and Technology, Living things and their habitats, Materials, Mutual Understanding, Personal Health, Personal Understanding,Seasonal Changes, Working Scientifically. Blast off with this creative and exciting theme. Right from the start, this theme promotes children’s thinking and questioning. They investigate the night sky and look at it in a way that they have never done before. They travel to the stars and think about what lies beyond their world. Using Van Gogh’s beautiful works, they are encouraged and stimulated to create their own pictures. A focus on A PSHEC/PDMU in this theme helps the children consider how they are “stars” and who else are the “stars” in their lives. With lots of suggested activities for Play-Based Learning, the only problem with this theme will be stopping it! Download the relevant Curriculum Coverage Overview for free: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/twinkle-twinkle-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468852

Focus: Animals, Animals including humans, Design and Technology, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Everyday Materials, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Human and physical geography, Living things and their habitats, Making Relationships, Managing Feelings and Behaviour, Mutual Understanding, Personal Health, Personal Understanding, Seasonal Changes, Self-confidence and Self-awareness, Working Scientifically. A fun-packed theme bursting with great learning opportunities for early years. Children are engaged and motivated to find out and think about water in a range of different scenarios. They explore and investigate all the ways we use water and consider what life must be like without this precious commodity. They learn how people got water in the past and how they used it. After splashing in puddles and making music with the rain it’s off to the seaside to spend some time at the shore. Then over and under the waves they go, messing about on boats with pirates, diving down deep to see the richness and variety of marine life. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/splish-splash-splosh-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468862

Focus: Citizenship, Design and Technology, Employability,Making Relationships, Managing Feelings and Behaviour, Materials, Mutual Understanding, Personal Understanding, Properties of Shapes, Statistics, Working Scientifically. Getting the chance to rummage in the Toy Box, doesn’t quite seem like learning, yet children cover a wide range in this stimulating theme. They discover what makes their toys work and how they move as well as learning about the materials from which they are made. Then it’s off down memory lane, investigating toys from the past. This is a practical and action-packed theme with a strong focus on Science and movement and energy; concepts that can be difficult to integrate into the early year’s program. With activities focusing on designing, making, and doing, this theme opens a range of problem-solving and decision-making opportunities, so dive right in! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/in-the-toy-box-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468848

Focus: Animals, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Education for Sustainable Development, Employability, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Living things and their habitats, Measurement, Media Awareness, Personal Health, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Properties of Shapes, Statistics, Uses of Materials, Working Scientifically. An extensive and varied theme. Children investigate the materials used in building and explore the process of building a house. Comparing and contrasting homes in the past they deepen their understanding of how and why materials are used as well as how things change. They travel the world looking around the types of houses other children live in and learning about how these homes are ideal in their location. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/home-sweet-home-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468855

Focus: Citizenship, Employability, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Health and Self-care, Human and physical geography, Mutual Understanding, Personal Understanding, Position and direction, Self-confidence and Self-awareness, Shape. Taking a walk through their locality and having a good look around them is the basis of children’s learning in this theme. Just who sells what and what can be found on the local high street, with a nosey around the shops makes for a great day out! Back in the classroom early mapping skills, positional and directional language are all developed through the creation of a physical representation of where the children have been exploring. They get to become town planners as they decide what would they like to see come to their town. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/down-the-town-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468849

Focus: Citizenship, Living things and their habitats, Materials, Mutual Understanding, Personal Health, Personal Understanding, Seasonal Changes, Working Scientifically. The chilly winter world and all things cold are explored in the opening activities of this theme. Children get outside to spot the signs of Winter. Then they get cosy again identifying all the ways we make it through our winter wonderland. Experimenting with ice brings out the scientist in them all. Then it’s off to the Poles to see how people and animals survive the harsh climate and environments found at the extremities of the Earth. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/brr-it-s-freezing-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468864

Focus: Autumn, Citizenship, Employability, Making Relationships, Mutual Understanding, Nursery Rhymes, Personal Understanding, Seasonal Changes, Self-confidence and Self-awareness, Stories, Weather, Working Scientifically Familiar and new rhymes throw open a window on the world for the children in this varied theme. They learn about the life of characters in the rhymes travelling in time as they engage in developing stories and learning around the rhymes they know and love. Ideally a theme for autumn, the children get their fingers sticky with berries and peep into hedgerows to find out who is preparing for winter. They look at how seasonal change impacts their own lives too. Suitable for Autumn term. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-time-to-rhyme-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468846