We are updating our Music, Computing and D&T schemes. Refreshed units of lessons are being published throughout the 2026/27 academic year. From September 2026, schools can choose to use refreshed units as they become available or continue teaching the current schemes until the full refresh is complete in 2027/28. These updates have been informed by customer feedback, new educational research and updated guidance.

Refreshed long-term plans (including condensed and mixed-age versions) are available to explore on the Music, Computing and D&T Curriculum portals, with refreshed units of lessons available in the Preview area as they are published.

Units will be published ahead of teaching each half term:

Autumn 1 at the start of July 2026

Autumn 2 in mid-October 2026

Spring 1 in early December 2026

Spring 2 in early February 2027

Summer 1 at the start of April 2027

Summer 2 in mid-May 2027. 

As refreshed units are released, they will sit alongside current schemes, with clear labelling to help schools navigate both versions.

Current schemes will remain permanently accessible through Kapow Primary’s Content archive, allowing schools to continue using them if they wish. 

The refreshed Kapow Primary Computing curriculum will feature:

• Clearer progression: Enhanced support for the development of knowledge, skills and vocabulary.
• Improved accessibility: Learning is broken down into clearer, more manageable steps.
• Real-world digital literacy: Inclusion of relevant skills to prepare pupils for using digital technologies beyond the Computing curriculum.
• Latest technology: Integration of the most up-to-date and relevant technology.
• A simplified, condensed long-term plan: Each year group will now have three units, plus the option of an additional Online Safety unit in each phase.

To view refreshed units, see the Computing preview area.

The refreshed Kapow Primary D&T curriculum will feature:

• Clearer progression: Improved development of the knowledge, skills and vocabulary that define the four key strands of design, make, evaluate and technical knowledge.
• Digital literacy: Greater opportunities to develop skills through the Digital world units.
• Real-world relevance: Links to sustainable careers, practices and materials, supporting pupils to recognise D&T’s importance to a sustainable future; and a deeper insight into designers and companies that have impacted the world through innovation.
• Improved accessibility: Learning is broken down into clearer, more manageable steps.
• A more cost-effective approach: The use of recycled and collected materials, where possible, to reduce costs.
• A simpler, condensed long-term plan: Each year group will now have three units, in addition to the standard D&T long-term plan.

To view refreshed units, see the D&T preview area.

The refreshed Kapow Primary Music curriculum will feature:

• Clearer progression of knowledge, skills and vocabulary: Easier for teachers to see what should be taught and when.
• Closer alignment: Content reflecting the Model Music Curriculum and Ofsted’s Striking The Right Note subject report.
• Practical focus: Putting practical music-making, creativity and performance at the heart of learning.
• Improved accessibility: Learning is broken down into clearer, more manageable steps.
• Broader understanding: Inclusion of a wider range of musicians, composers and musical traditions.
• Richer audio materials: More opportunities for pupils to play along with recorded performances.
• Strengthened assessment: Multimodal quizzes that focus on the most important learning.
• Digital literacy: New opportunities to develop digital literacy through Music technology units.
• A simpler, condensed long-term plan: Each year group will now have three units, in addition to the standard Music long-term plan.

To view refreshed units, visit the Music preview area.