Every theme opens a door to somewhere new.

With over 60 rich and engaging themes to choose from, you can create a curriculum journey that reflects your pupils, your school and the world around them.

60+Themes to choose from

Nurserythrough to Year 6

8Subjects with Pillars of Learning

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Step inside a few of our themes.

Each theme weaves several subjects around one big story, with films, songs, sources and hands-on activities along the way. Select a theme to look inside.

Year 1

Books That Changed History

One letter to a poorly little boy led to the story about the most famous rabbit in the world.

Year 2

Come Fly with Me! Arctic Circle

Pupils follow Dr Jonas Frost north to the invisible line around the top of the world.

Year 3

The Rainforest Keepers

The class become conservation experts and build a proposal to save the Araká people's rainforest.

Year 4

Come Fly with Me! Africa

Follows a piece of fruit back to the people who grew it: the true size of Africa, its climates and landscapes, and what a fair deal really means.

Year 4

When the Blitz Hits

Following Walter and Edith Wiggins from the 1939 wireless announcement to evacuation, the Blitz and the Home Front, told through the letters in the class postbag.

Year 5

Just Deserts

Follow a lost explorer into the world's deserts.

Year 6

Ra! Ra! Egypt!

The river that made a civilisation, the woman who ruled it as king, and the argument about her that is still going on.

Four big ideas behind every theme.

Communication, Conflict, Culture and Conservation run through the whole curriculum, from Nursery to Year 6, helping children explore their place in a complex and changing world.

Communication

How people share ideas, stories and knowledge, and how that has shaped the world.

Conflict

Why people disagree, how disputes are resolved and what fairness asks of us.

Culture

The beliefs, traditions and ways of life that make communities who they are.

Conservation

Caring for places, living things and the planet we all share.

Teachers looking through pupils' exercise books together, one holding a tablet showing a unit page

Pillars of Learning in every subject.

Behind the stories sits a clear progression framework.

Every subject is built on its own Pillars of Learning, the disciplinary threads that run through every unit, so knowledge, skills and vocabulary build year on year and subject leaders can see exactly where learning begins and where it goes next.

HistoryChronology · Continuity and Change · Perspectives and Interpretations · Similarities and Differences · Cause and Consequence · Evidence
GeographyLocations and Environments · Human Geography · Physical Geography · Fieldwork · Processes and Changes · Environmental Sustainability
ScienceLiving Systems · Materials and Matter · Forces and Energy · Scientific Enquiry · Science in Action · Communicating Science
ArtTechniques, Materials and Tools · 3D Art and Sculpture · People · Creative Thinking and Expression · Observation and Reflection
ComputingInformation Technology · Multimedia and Creativity · Digital Citizenship and Online Safety · Computer Science · Data and Information · Computing in Action
Design & TechnologyDesign and Solve · Making and Materials · Test and Improve · Systems and Structures · Food and Nutrition · Innovation and Impact
MusicSinging & Vocal Skills · Listening & Appraising · Pulse, Rhythm & Metre · Pitch, Melody & Harmony · Performing & Instrumental Skills · Creating Music
PSHEFamilies · Friendships · Respecting self and others · Mental health and wellbeing · Keeping healthy and well · Personal safety and first aid · and more

Built for every school, and everyone in it.

From a small village primary to a trust of many schools, the curriculum fits your context without losing consistency or progression.

Teachers

Ready-to-teach lessons with clear guidance, resources and everything to share with the class, leaving you free to teach, adapt and follow the questions.