Please note that some of our current units are being refreshed for 2024/25. Accordingly, this long-term plan has been updated to reflect this. See pages 3 and 4 of this document for more information.
Our 30-week standard Music long-term plan is designed for schools that deliver primary school Music lessons each week, leaving some time for extra-curricular and other opportunities. It covers:
It gives a suggested order for teaching Kapow Primary’s units and details about flexibility within the scheme should you choose to adapt it to your school.
This document provides information about the design of our Music curriculum, including detailing the strands that thread through our scheme of work: Listening and evaluating, Creating sound, Notation, Improvising and composing and Performing. In addition, it explains our Instrumental scheme and how to fit it into these units.
If curriculum time is limited, you may wish to follow our Music: Long-term plan – condensed version.
Use this long-term plan alongside Kapow Primary’s original Art and design scheme to support your delivery of the primary Art and design curriculum across the school.
As well as giving oversight of the Art and design scheme, this document contains information including:
- How this scheme helps your school meet the statutory requirements for Art and design.
- The organisation of the scheme into the five key strands of learning: making skills; generating ideas; formal elements; knowledge of artists; evaluating, and how these are spread throughout the units.
- A spiral curriculum and how it is utilised within the scheme.
- Ordering and teaching the units.
- Each individual unit across every year, including a brief synopsis of learning.
- Other useful documentation to support you in planning your Art and design scheme of work including a curriculum overview, progression of skills document, an equipment list and a vocabulary progression.
Kapow Primary’s archived Long-term plan for Art and design is for schools teaching Art and design most weeks throughout the school year. Each year group is allocated 4 units across the year, which ensure pupils acquire key skills and knowledge required to make progress.
The plan shows how the scheme of work fulfils the national curriculum requirements for KS1 and KS2 Art and design and includes an overview of our units and lessons and guidance on the order of teaching.
To download our standard long-term plan, click on the orange button below.
We suggest that most schools should use our revised Art and design scheme of work for the most up to date content.
This document refers to our ARCHIVED Art and design scheme, which is no longer maintained to reflect curriculum changes or publishing updates. We recommend that you use the up to date Art & design and D&T Combined plan found here.
This combined Art and design and DT long-term plan is suitable for use with our now ARCHIVED Art and design scheme. We recommend that schools no longer use this scheme and transition to our up-to-date Art & design scheme.
Kapow Primary’s combined, long-term plan for two national curriculum subjects: Art and design, and Design and technology. The plan is based on our schemes of work for Art and design and Design and technology and is for schools that alternate between the subjects each half term.
The plan fulfils the essential requirements of the KS1 and KS2 National Curriculum for Art and design and Design and technology. Each block is hyperlinked to the recommended units of lessons and contains brief descriptions of the lessons and key learning points.
We also provide a standard Art and design: Long-term plan and a standard Design and technology: Long-term plan for schools that teach the subjects throughout the year.
This Long-term Plan for Kapow Primary’s Design and technology scheme of work is a comprehensive resource that supports the planning and delivery of the subject across the school, reduces pressure on equipment and allows schools to adapt the curriculum to their needs. It is organised around six key areas and four strands, with hyperlinked units and brief overviews. Standard, condensed, and combined versions are available for different curriculum needs.
A handy D&T long-term planning document, offering full oversight of the subject throughout the primary age range. Providing lots of further information, including how our scheme has been designed and how it can be tailored to your teaching and learning needs, it is a one-stop-shop for teachers and leaders alike. The organisation of our Design and technology curriculum is explained, detailing the strands that thread through every unit: Design, Make, Evaluate and Technical knowledge. Each unit is hyperlinked and a short description of the content gives you an overview of Kapow’s Design and technology curriculum.
This full 36-week EYFS, KS1 and KS2 long-term plan for Computing is designed for schools that deliver the subject each week. Based on the Kapow Primary Computing curriculum, the document gives a suggested order for teaching our units to ensure the best possible progression.
The organisation of our Computing curriculum is explained, with information which may help you to adapt our scheme to suit your school. Further information about teaching computing in the Early Years and fitting our unique online safety lessons into your curriculum time is also included.
This standard version of the Long-term plan includes all of our Computing units from EYFS- Year 6, giving full coverage of the National Curriculum.
If your school is short on curriculum time, you may wish to look at our Long-term plan – condensed version, which gives full coverage of the National Curriculum in only 20 lessons per year group.
This condensed version of our Computing: Long-term plan offers help to those schools who want to ensure coverage of the national curriculum, without dedicating an hour a week to Computing as suggested in our standard Computing: Long-term plan.
In only 18 lessons, you can ensure full coverage of the national curriculum for Computing. The selected Computing lessons ensure that there is balanced coverage of our five key areas of Computing, as well as one Skills showcase unit, to give pupils an opportunity to combine and apply skills from different units.
This version of our Long-term plan could be used if you are teaching Computing in a two-week, half-termly cycle or are block teaching foundation subjects. It could also be used to relieve pressure on teachers and pupils in terms of the amount of curriculum content.
Please note that not all the skills and knowledge from our Computing: Progression of skills and knowledge document will be covered: you are advised to see our Computing: Progression of skills and knowledge — condensed version for further details of the skills and knowledge covered if you follow the condensed curriculum.
This checklist details the essential equipment needed for Kapow Primary’s RSE & PSHE scheme of work. Use it in advance of teaching each unit to prepare resources required for our RSE & PSHE curriculum. For individual lessons, refer to the ‘Have ready’ section at the top of each lesson to ensure you’re well-prepared.
Please note that for some of the books, you may prefer to search online for a reading than to buy a copy but for copyright reasons we cannot link to readings that have not been done by the original author.
Explore more of our RSE & PSHE scheme:
A list of essential and optional resources for the Kapow Primary Music scheme of work, covering:
The list includes equipment needed for the Model Music Curriculum whole-class instrumental lessons. This resource should be reviewed before a Music unit is taught so that adequate preparation can be made in advance. The list comprises instruments needed for the units, classroom materials such as stationery and filming equipment, technology such as laptops or tablets, books (you may be able to borrow some of these from your school library) and more, providing you with a list of everything you will need to teach the Kapow Primary Music units.
For the KS2 instrumental lessons, we suggest choosing a tuned percussion instrument from glockenspiels, xylophones, metallophones, or chime bars. Untuned percussion instruments are not essential to teach this scheme, but if you want to buy specific instruments, claves, guiros, egg shakers, and gongs/cymbals would all be useful.
