St Mary's

Catholic Primary School

Enquiry and Curriculum Progression

 

The following page details the broad enquiry progression and how subjects are mapped across the year. As we start each enquiry each year groups curriculum map is added to the this overview. To access these, please click the enquiry

 

 

 

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

Year 1

What changes around me? (seasonal awareness - Scientist, Theologian)

What is my hat made of?

Scientist

Who helps who? Philosopher

Where is our school?Geographer

What am I? What do Scientist/ Musician artists do?

Artist

How do we play in different ways?

Historian

What grows near me?

Scientist/ Engineer (cooking)How do we move around? Engineer 

Year 2

 

What changes around me? (seasonal awareness - Scientist, Theologian)

What could my classroom be made of?

Scientist / Engineer

What did Brunel do for Great Britain Historian / Engineer

How are schools the same?Geographer

How can we help? What is home?

Scientist

 

How do we live a healthy life?

Engineer - Cooking

 

How do plants grow near me?

Scientist

How will we get around in the future? Geographer/ Historian

Year 3

Where does the darkness come from?

Scientist / Artist

How can we find out about people in the past?

Historian

What is underneath our feet? Geographer

What is the difference between surviving and being healthy?

Scientist / Artist

 

How can you feel the force?

Engineer

How do plants die? 

Scientist

Why did people travel in the past?

Geographer

Musician

Year 4

What is the difference between noise and sound?

Scientist / Musician

Who has stood here before us? Historian

Why do we live here?

Geographer

Why are more people becoming vegetarians? Scientist

Where does our water come from? Scientist

How can we switch off?

Scientist

 

What should you flush down the loo? Environmental issues

Scientist

What is creativity? Artist

Year 5

What does the Earth look like from the solar system?

Scientist

How can you show what you believe in?

Historian

Where is our twin?

Geographer

 

How can science help the homeless?

Scientist

What do forces actually do?

Scientist

Who is trading with whom?

Historian

How are you helping to save our planet?

Scientist / Engineer

What makes a good performance great?

Artist

Year 6

How are lives saved?

Scientist

Who were the greater engineers? The ancient Britons or the Victorians

Engineer / Historian

Where does our food really come from?

Geographer

Linnaeus and Darwin  - how are they connected? Scientist

How do we all live together?

Historian

 

Why are shadows important?

Artist

How big is your footprint? (Digital, ecological, carbon) Philosopher