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South Darley Shine Curriculum Themes

Our school operates a 4-year rolling curriculum, organised into themes, in order to cover the national curriculum objectives.  Have a look to see what your child will be learning this term.  Content will be updated shortly before the start of each new theme.  Full learning plans for each subject and how they progress across the year groups can be found on our curriculum subjects page.

 

 

 

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Cycle A

2022-23

Lest We Forget

Infants: No Place Like Home / Remembrance

Juniors: World Wars

Staying Alive

Infants: Nurturing Nurses

Juniors: Survival

 

No Stone Left Unturned

Infants: Great Explorers / Beside the Seaside

Juniors: Stone Age to Iron Age

2023-24

Best of British?

Infants: Famous Brits, Gunpowder Plot

Juniors: Romans

 

World on a Plate

EYFS Planning

Infants: Beautiful India? / Living Off the Land

Juniors: Foods from around the world (Enterprise Unit)

All the World’s a Stage

Infants: Cinderella and fairy tales of the world

Juniors: Greeks / Olympics

Cycle B

2024-25

Our DNA

Infants: Incredible Me! Towers and Turrets: Norman Conquest

Juniors: Vikings and Anglo-Saxons

Plague!

Infants: Pirates and the Great Fire of London

Juniors: Eyam and the Plague

Travel Through Time

Infants: Travel and Transport

Juniors: Space

2025-26

Industrial Age

Infants: Queens Victoria & Elizabeth II

Juniors: Industrial Revolution – local history

Treasure Hunters

Infants: Special Toys through Time / Superheroes Rule

Juniors: Egyptians

 

Hooray for Habitats

Infants: Paws, Claws and Whiskers / Jack and the Beanstalk

Juniors: Rainforests