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Functional Curriculum
Long Term Plans
2025-2026

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Functional Curriculum
Cornerstones Topics Long Term Plan
2025-2026

Class/Term	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Starfish (OM)	Burps, Bottoms and Bile / (Science)	Interconnected World / (Geography)	Functional Fabrics/Contrast & Complement/Islamic Art / (Art & Design)	1066 / (History)	Playlist / (Music)	Electrical Circuits and Conductors / (Science)
Octopus (JD) / Rays (SF)	Rocks, Relics & Rumbles / (Geography)	Ammonite / (Art & Design)	Emperors & Empires / (History)	Mighty Metals / (Science)	Spirit / (PE)	Beachcombers / (Science)
Dolphins (KS) / Lobsters (HK)	Superheroes / (PE)	Childhood / (History)	Moon Zoom / (DT)	Bright Lights, / Big City / (Geography)	Predator / (Science)	Muck, mess & Mixtures / Art & DT

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Functional Curriculum
Mathematics LTP Standard 3 and below (Nursery) 2025-2026
Long Term Plan 2023-2024

Term	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12
Autumn	More than, fewer than, same / Explore & build with shapes and objects			Explore repeats / Hear and say Number names			Begin to order number names / I see 1,2,3			Join in with repeats / Explore position and space
Spring	Show me 1,2,3 / Move and label 1,2,3			Explore position and routes / Explore Patterns			Take and give 1,2,3 / Match, talk, push and pull			Talk about dots / Compare and sort / collections
Summer	Lead on own repeats / Start to puzzle			Making patterns together / Make games and actions			Show me 5 / My own pattern			Stop at 1,2,3,4,5 / Match, sort, compare

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Functional Curriculum
Mathematics Standard 4 (Reception)
Long Term Plan 2025-2026

Term	Week / 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week / 12
Autumn	Getting to Know You		Match, Sort and / Compare		Talk about Measure / and Patterns		It’s Me 123		Circles & Triangles	1,2,3,4,5		Shapes with / 4 sides
Spring	Alive in 5		Mass and Capacity	Growing, 6,7,8		Length, Height, Time		Building 9 and 10			Explore 3D Shapes
Summer	To 20 and beyond		How many now?	Manipulate, Compose and decompose		Sharing and Grouping		Visualise, build and map			Make / Connections	Consolidations

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Functional Curriculum
Mathematics Standard 5
Long Term Plan 2025-2026

Term	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week / 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week / 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week / 12
Autumn	Number / Place Value (within 10)					Number / Addition & Subtraction (within 10)					Geometry / Shape	Consolidation
Spring	Number / Place Value (within 20)			Number / Addition & Subtraction / (within 20)			Number / Place Value / (within 50)		Measurement / Length & Height		Measurement / Mass & Volume
Summer	Number / Multiplication & Division			Number / Fractions		Geometry / Position & Direction	Number / Place Value / (within 100)		Measurement / Money	Measurement / Time		Consolidation

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Functional Curriculum
Mathematics Standard 6
Long Term Plan 2025-2026

Term	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12
Autumn	Number / Place Value				Number / Addition & Subtraction					Geometry / Shape
Spring	Measurement / Money		Number / Multiplication & Division					Measurement / Length & Height		Measurement / Mass, Capacity & Temperature
Summer	Number / Fractions / Statistics			Measurement / Time			Statistics		Geometry / Position & Direction		Consolidation

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Functional Curriculum
Mathematics Standard 7
Long Term Plan 2025-2026

Term	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week / 12
Autumn	Number / Place Value			Number / Addition & Subtraction					Number / Multiplication & Division A
Spring	Number / Multiplication & Division B			Measurement / Length & Perimeter			Number / Fractions A			Measurement / Mass & Capacity
Summer	Number / Fractions B		Measurement / Money		Measurement / Time			Geometry / Shape		Statistics		Consolidation

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Functional Curriculum
Mathematics Standard 8
Long Term Plan 2025-2026

Term	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week / 7	Week / 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week / 12
Autumn	Number / Place Value				Number / Addition & Subtraction			Measurement / Area	Number / Multiplication & Division A			Consolidation
Spring	Number / Multiplication & Division B			Measurement / Length & Perimeter		Number / Fractions				Number / Decimals A
Summer	Number / Decimals B		Measurement / Money		Measurement / Time		Consolidation	Geometry / Shape		Statistics	Geometry / Position & Direction

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Functional Curriculum
Mathematics Financial Education
Long Term Plan Starfish & Octopus 2025-2026
Long Term Plan 2023-2024

Term	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12
Autumn	Value of coins and money			Keeping Track of money			Choices about saving and spending			Needs and wants
Spring	Looking after my money			Saving Money			Where my money comes from			How money developed
Summer	Enterprise Planning			Enterprise Making			Enterprise			Consolidation

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Functional Curriculum
Mathematics Financial Education
Long Term Plan Lobsters, Dolphins & Rays
2025-2026

Term	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12
Autumn	Recognising coins				Choices about spending				Choices about saving
Spring	Keeping money safe				Feelings about money				Using money
Summer	Keeping track of money				Choices about saving and spending				Needs and wants

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Functional Curriculum
Science Long Term Plan
2025-2026

Class/Term	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2 / Investigations
Dolphins (KS)Lobsters (HK)	Y1 - The Human Body / Y1- Seasonal Change	Y1-Materials / Y1– Seasonal Change	Y1-Planting A / (week one) / Y1 - Animals / Y1 - Seasonal / changes, Planting B (last two weeks)	Y1 - Animals / Y1- Caring for the Planet / Y1-Seasonal Change	Y1 - Plants, / Planting C (Last week) / Y1 Growing and / Cooking	Y1 - Seasonal / changes / Investigations / Consolidation
Rays (SF) / Octopus (JD)	Y2 Animals’ needs for survival / Y2 Humans	Y2 - Materials, / Sustainability Plastic (one week)	Y2 - Plants - light and dark,	Y2 - Living things and their habitats, / Y2 Plants Light & Dark	Y2 Plants - bulbs and seeds / Y2 Growing up	Y2 Growing Up / Y2 Wildlife / Investigations / Consolidation
Starfish (OM)	Y3 - Skeletons, Movement and Nutrition and Diet, Food Waste	Y3 - Rocks,	Y3 Fossils / Y3- Soils	Y3 - Light	Y3 - Plants A / Forces/Magnets	Y3- Plants B, / Biodiversity. / Investigations / Consolidation

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Functional Curriculum
PSHE Long Term Plan
2025-2026

Class/Term	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Starfish (OM) / Octopus (JD) / Lobsters (HK) / Rays (SF) / Dolphins (KS)	Being Me	Celebrating / Difference	Dreams and Goals	Healthy Me	Relationships	Changing Me

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Functional Curriculum
Music Long Term Plan
2025-2026
2025-2026

Class/ Term	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Dolphins (KS / Lobsters (HK) / Instruments	EYFS / Exploring vocal sounds & moving to music	EYFS / Christmas music - songs and activities / Un-pitched percussion	EYFS / Exploring percussion instruments / Un-pitched percussion	EYFS / Count me in! / Spring Serenade / Un-pitched percussion	EYFS / Count me in! / Water Blues / Un-pitched percussion	EYFS / Count me in! / Rainbow Rag / Un-pitched percussion
Rays (SF) / Instruments	EYFS/Year 1 / Singing and pitch / Explore tempo / Un-pitched percussion	EYFS/Year 1 / Christmas music - songs and activities / Un-pitched and pitched percussion	EYFS/Year 1 / Exploring pitch using an instrument / Un-pitched and pitched percussion	EYFS/Year 1 / Spring music—songs and activities / Ensemble activities / Un-pitched and pitched percussion	EYFS/Year 1 / Story sound effects / Loud/soft / Un-pitched and pitched percussion	EYFS/ Year 1 / Count me in! / Bollywood dance party / Un-pitched and pitched percussion
Octopus (JD) / Instruments	Year 1/ 2 / Explore rhythm and beat, learn tunes on the glockenspiel / Pitched percussion	Year 1/ 2 / Christmas music - songs and activities / Pitched percussion	Year 1 / 2 / Learn more tunes on the glockenspiel, / exploring notation / Pitched percussion	Year 1/ 2 / Explore music / technology / Pitched percussion	Year 1/2 / Compose a piece of music / Pupils choice of instruments	Year 1 / 2 / Compose a piece of / music / Pupils choice of instruments
Starfish (OM) / Instruments	Year 2/3 / Ukulele basics, play a simple melody / Ukulele	Year 2/ 3 / Learn chords, chord box notation / Sing and play / Ukulele	Year 2/ 3 / Play an ostinato, TAB notation / Ukulele	Year 2 / 3 / Mr. Gray music—read and play TAB notation / Ukulele	Year 2 / 3 / Compose a piece of music / Pupils choice of instruments	Year 2 / 3 / Compose a piece of music / Pupils choice of instruments

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Functional Curriculum
Computing Long Term Plan
2025-2026

Class/ Term	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Dolphins (KS) / Lobsters (HK)	EYFS / Unit 1 / Making and creating	EYFS / Unit 2 / Organising and sequencing	EYFS / Unit 3 / Making and Creating 2	EYFS / Unit 4 / Information and Text	EYFS / Unit 5 / Algorithms	Lower KS1 Scheme iSafe / Personal Information and / being safe online
Rays (SF)	Lower KS1 Scheme iWrite / Creating, manipulating and sorting digital text	Lower KS1 Scheme iWrite / Creating, manipulating and sorting digital text	Lower KS1 Scheme / iData / Introduction to data representation	Lower KS1 Scheme / iSafe / Personal Information and / being safe online	Lower KS1 Scheme / iDraw / Exploring Digital Art	Lower KS1 Scheme / iModel / Introduction to / Modelling
Octopus (JD)	Lower KS2 / Scheme / iprogram	Lower KS2 / Scheme / isimulate	Lower KS2 / Scheme / inetwork	Lower KS2 / Scheme / idata	Lower KS2 / Scheme / iconnect	Lower KS2 / Scheme / ipodcast
Starfish (OM)	Lower KS2 Scheme / ipodcast	Lower KS2 / Scheme / iprogram 1	Lower KS2 / Scheme / idata	Lower KS2 / Scheme / ianimate	Lower KS2 / Scheme / ilearn AI	Lower KS2 / Scheme / iphoto Edit

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Functional Curriculum
Online Safety (Project Evolve)
Long Term Plan 2025-2026

Class/Term	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Dolphins (KS)	Online / Relationships / (EYFS-7)	Online / Relationships / (EYFS-7)	Self Image and Identity / (EYFS-7)	Self Image and Identity / (EYFS-7)	Privacy and Security / (EYFS-7)	Privacy and Security / (EYFS-7)
Lobsters (HK) / Rays (SF)	Managing Online Information / (EYFS-7)	Managing Online Information / (EYFS-7)	Health, Well-being & Lifestyle / (EYFS-7)	Health, Well-being & Lifestyle / (EYFS-7)	Copyright & / Owners / (EYFS-7)	Copyright & / Owners / (EYFS-7)
Starfish (OM) / Octopus (JD)	Managing Online Information / (7-11)	Managing Online Information / (7-11)	Health, Well-being & Lifestyle / (7-11)	Health, Well-being & Lifestyle / (7-11)	Copyright & / Owners / (7-11)	Copyright & / Owners / (7-11)

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Functional Curriculum
RE Long Term Plan
2025-2026

PK / Standard(s) / Jigsaw	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
2-3 (ages 3-4)	Special people and me	Christmas	Celebrations / and me	Easter and me	Stories and me	Special places and me
4 (ages 4-5)	What makes people special?	What is / Christmas?	How do people celebrate?	What is Easter?	What can I learn from stories?	What makes places special?
5-6 (ages 5-7)	5: The creation story / 6: Jesus being kind	5: Christmas gifts / 6: Christmas – Jesus as a gift from God	ISLAM ENQUIRY / 5 and 6: Who is God to Muslims?	EASTER / 5: Palm Sunday / 6: resurrection of Jesus	SA ENQUIRY 2 / 5 and 6: Story of Rama and Sita	JUDAISM / ENQUIRY 3 / Synagogue
7-8 (ages 7-9)	Christianity Spring 1 Unit: Could Jesus heal people?	Has Christmas lost it’s true meaning?	Muslim prayers and prayer times	Easter – What is good about good Friday?	Buddhism / enquiry 1: The story, life and teachings of Buddha	Judaism: / Celebrating / Passover

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Functional Curriculum
MFL (French) Long Term Plan PK6 and above
2025-2026

Whole School/Term	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Starfish (OM) / Octopus (JD)	Introduction of target language / Greetings (Hello/Goodbye, how are you?, what is my/your name?) / Number 0—11 / Colours	Numbers 1-20 / Days of the week / Months of the year / Birthdays	Family / Food / Animals / Weather

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Functional Curriculum
MFL Long Term Plan 2025-2026
Enrichment Timetable

Whole School/Term	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Starfish (OM) / Octopus (JD) / Rays (SF) / Lobsters (HK) / Dolphins (KS)	China	France	Pakistan

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Functional Curriculum
Long Term Plan PE
2025-2026

Class/ Term	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Starfish (OM) / KS2	Shobnall Bikes	Handball	Horse Riding	Hockey	Tennis	Sports Day / Activities (Athletics)
Octopus (JD) / KS2	Handball	Horse Riding	Hockey	Tennis	Shobnall Bikes	Sports Day / Activities (Athletics)
Rays (SF) / KS1	Fundamentals	Sending & / Receiving	Team Building	Target Games	Striking and / Fielding	Sports Day / Activities (Athletics)
Lobsters (HK) / EYFS	Intro to PE 1	Fundamentals 2	Games 2	Gymnastics 2	Ball Skills 2	Sports Day / Activities (Athletics)
Dolphins (KS) / EYFS	Fundamentals	Games 1	Gymnastics 1	Team Building	Invasion Games	Sports Day / (Athletics)

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