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Thorns Primary School Curriculum Organisation

Curriculum Themes – English, Mathematics, Science, PE, RE and MFL will all be taught
discretely but with subject matter developed across these topics.
Year Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Reception Ourselves Magic Fairy tales Toys Growth and Water
Change

Year 1 Bright Moon Zoom Dinosaur The Super heroes! Paws, Claws
Lights, big D and T Planet enchanted PE and
city History Wood Whiskers
Geography Science Art and Design

Year 2 Towers, Bounce! Beat Band Beachcombers The scented Muck, Mess
Tunnels and PE Boogie garden and Mixtures
Turrets Music Science Art and design
Design and
Tech.

Year 3 Gods and Tremors Mighty Urban Heroes and Tribal Tales
Mortals Geography Metals Pioneers villains History
History Science Art and Des

Year 4 I am a Blue Abyss Potions Playlist 1066 Road Trip
Warrior! Art and Des Science Music History USA
History Geography

Year 5 Peasants, Alchemy Time Stargazers Allotment Beast
Princes and Island Traveller Science Geography Creator
Pestilence Music Art and Science
History Design

Year 6 A Child’s Fallen fields Frozen Focus week Gallery Rebels Hola Mexico
War Kingdom Anglo-Saxons Art and Des
History Geography

Phonics

At Thorns Primary School, when children enter the Reception class they take part in high-
quality phonics sessions every day. These are fun sessions involving lots of speaking, listening
and games, where the emphasis is on children’s active participation. The children learn to use
their phonic knowledge for reading and writing activities and in their independent play.

From a very early stage, children develop awareness of different sounds in spoken language.
They develop understanding that spoken words are made up of different sounds (phonemes)
and they learn to match these phonemes to letters (graphemes). Phonics is about children
knowing how letters link to sounds (graphemes to phonemes), for example, a as in ‘cat’, ll as
in ‘fell’, ee as in ‘sheep’.

Children use this phonic knowledge when they are reading and writing. This approach has
been shown to provide a quick and efficient way for most young children to learn to read words
on the page, fluently and accurately. We want children to develop this skill so that it becomes
automatic. This also greatly helps them with their spelling.

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