year: Year 5

Teacher video: Scale bars

Teachers learn how to measure and convert map distances using scale bars, helping children apply geographical and mathematical reasoning.

Teacher video: Grid references

Teachers are guided on teaching grid references and the OS National Grid System to help children confidently interpret and apply map-reading skills.

Teacher video: Spanish cubist art

This Spanish Kapow teacher video supports you in delivering a creative and culturally rich lesson where pupils explore portraits through the lens of Spanish Cubism. Using abstract imagery allows pupils to focus on key vocabulary linked to facial features while avoiding potential sensitivities around realistic faces.

Pupil video: Cubist art in Spain

This video explores the lives and work of two famous Spanish artists, Pablo Picasso and Maria Blanchard.

Teacher video: Fieldwork in a marine environment

This Geography video helps the children explore marine environments through enquiry-led fieldwork, developing environmental responsibility, data-handling skills and practical actions linked to sustainability.

Teacher video: Coral reefs

This Geography video helps the children explore the Great Barrier Reef, understand the threats facing oceans and learn how global and local action can protect these vital ecosystems.

Music: Curriculum guide for parents and carers — condensed

Designed for school websites, this document offers parents and carers a clear overview of what their child will be learning about in Music for schools that follow our condensed curriculum.

Art and design: Curriculum guide for parents and carers — condensed

Teacher video: Time zones

Teachers are supported in explaining how the Earth’s rotation creates time zones and why day and night occur at different times across the world.

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