year: Year 1
D&T: Progression of skills and knowledge
A handy oversight of how Kapow Primary’s Design and technology scheme ensures a continuous progression of skills and knowledge throughout the school.
This document shows how Design and technology skills progress in:
It covers areas including Structures, Mechanisms, Electrical Systems, Cooking, Textiles, and the Digital World. It outlines the development of core skills and technical knowledge for clear, measurable progression.
D&T: National curriculum coverage
Each of our Design and technology lessons show which national curriculum attainment target/s pupils are working towards during the lesson.
This curriculum mapping document gives an overview of all the National curriculum statements and shows the specific units which support pupils on their journey to meeting these targets by the end of Key stage 1 and Key stage 2. It has now been updated to include the Development Matters statements and Eary Learning Goals relevant to each of our EYFS: Reception units.
It also shows how the strands: design, make, evaluate and technical knowledge link to the National curriculum.
The starred (*) units are wholly or partially included in our Long-term plan: condensed version. You can be assured that if you follow our condensed curriculum, pupils will have opportunities to work towards all of the national curriculum statements for D&T.
If your school decides to adapt or omit a unit, this document can help you to plan accordingly, ensuring that you do not leave any gaps in your coverage of the national curriculum for Design and technology.
Original Art and design scheme: Curriculum overview
This mapping document is suitable for use with the original Kapow Primary Art and design scheme (pre-September 2022). We recommend that schools no longer use this scheme and transition to our revised Art scheme.
RSE & PSHE: Progression of skills and knowledge
This downloadable document is for schools following our standard RSE and PSHE: Long-term plan. It shows how Kapow Primary’s RSE & PSHE scheme develops skills and knowledge from EYFS through to Year 6 in each of our key areas: Families and relationships, Health and wellbeing, Safety and the changing body, Citizenship and Economic wellbeing.
If you follow our RSE and PSHE: Long term plan – Mixed-age, please see our RSE & PSHE: Progression of skills and knowledge – Mixed-age.
If you follow our RSE and PSHE Long-term plan – Condensed, please see our RSE & PSHE: Progression of skills and knowledge – Condensed.
RSE & PSHE guidance for schools
Designed for schools and RSE subject leads, this document informs schools about the statutory requirements for the teaching of relationship education and health education in primary schools in England.
It guides schools, RSE subject leads and class teachers on how to teach high-quality relationships and sex education.
Schools can also use the document to identify which Kapow Primary RSE/PSHE lessons are ‘sex education’. This is important as parents can withdraw their children from sex education lessons in primary schools.
Original Art and design scheme: Required equipment
A list of equipment and materials required to teach the Original Kapow Primary Art and design scheme (pre-September 2022). We recommend that schools no longer use this scheme and transition to our revised Art scheme.
Vocabulary for Computing
Lists the key vocabulary covered in each year group and unit when following our Computing curriculum.
Education for a Connected World framework coverage
A handy document mapping Kapow Primary’s RSE/PSHE lessons and Computing lessons for each year group to show coverage of the Education for a Connected World framework statements.
Computing: National curriculum coverage
Quickly and easily check which Kapow Primary Computing lessons correspond to the national curriculum attainment targets for year 1 to year 6. Also includes the Early learning goals and Development matters statements for EYFS.
