In our interactive curriculum portals you will find key information for each foundation subject including:
- Long-term plans for Reception to Year 6 with links to all units
- Progression of skills and knowledge
- Vocabulary progression
- National Curriculum coverage
- Standard, mixed-age and condensed plans
Not every teacher will teach at the same pace, but this is the approximate time you should allow for each subject:
| Subject |
Recommended teaching time |
| Art & design |
1 hour |
| Computing |
1 hour |
| Design & technology |
1 hour |
| French |
45 minutes |
| Geography |
1 hour* |
| History |
1 hour |
| Music |
1 hour |
| RSE & PSHE |
45 minutes |
| Religion & worldviews |
1 hour |
| Science |
90 minutes |
| Spanish |
45 minutes |
| Wellbeing |
45 minutes |
*Allow more time for Geography fieldwork lessons
Our resources include diverse images, names and scenarios reflecting different backgrounds, genders, disabilities and challenging stereotypes.
Here are some subject-specific examples:
- Religion and worldviews presents diversity between and within a range of worldviews by including personal responses, images and other information reflecting a broad range of people, contexts and perspectives.
- History lessons teach pupils about a diverse range of historical persons and stories, including those from underrepresented and marginalised groups.
- In Art and design, children learn about art and ethnically diverse artists across cultures and throughout history.
- The Music curriculum includes a variety of musical genres from every continent and composers and musicians from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Our curriculum resources are accessible in the following ways:
- Adaptive teaching suggestions.
- Customisable colour schemes in lesson presentations.
- Knowledge organisers to pre-teach or recap key language/ideas.
- Varied teaching methods to engage different learning styles and needs.
- Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) document for every subject.
You can read more about our accessibility policy here.
We have created condensed planning for schools that are short of time. This has been carefully constructed so that it still allows you to meet full national curriculum requirements. However, if you decide to omit a unit from the condensed curriculum, it does pose the risk of certain skills or knowledge being missed or not consolidated.