Our mixed-age schemes are taught over two years as Cycle A and Cycle B. In most subjects, lessons from the same key areas are included in both cycles to ensure progression. In Art and design, the National Curriculum core areas like ‘drawing’ and ‘sculpture and 3D’ are grouped together within a cycle. This ensures skills and knowledge progression no matter which order the cycles are taught.

It doesn’t matter if pupils start with mixed-age schemes Cycle A or Cycle B, as both cycles cover the same key areas of learning. For most subjects, units of lessons should be taught in a specific order. Please see the mixed-age long-term plans for each subject for more information.

Not every teacher will teach at the same pace, but this is the approximate time you should allow for each subject:

*Allow more time for Geography fieldwork lessons

Our resources include diverse images, names and scenarios reflecting different backgrounds, genders, disabilities and challenging stereotypes. 

Here are some subject-specific examples:

• Religion and worldviews presents diversity between and within a range of worldviews by including personal responses, images and other information reflecting a broad range of people, contexts and perspectives. 
• History lessons teach pupils about a diverse range of historical persons and stories, including those from underrepresented and marginalised groups.
• In Art and design, children learn about art and ethnically diverse artists across cultures and throughout history.
• The Music curriculum includes a variety of musical genres from every continent and composers and musicians from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Our curriculum resources are accessible in the following ways:

• Adaptive teaching suggestions. 
• Customisable colour schemes in lesson presentations.
• Knowledge organisers to pre-teach or recap key language/ideas. 
• Varied teaching methods to engage different learning styles and needs.
• Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) document for every subject. 

We have created condensed planning for schools that are short of time. This has been carefully constructed so that it still allows you to meet full national curriculum requirements. However, if you decide to omit a unit from the condensed curriculum, it does pose the risk of certain skills or knowledge being missed or not consolidated.

An individual teacher trial lasts 7 days, and a whole school trial lasts 14 days. You will have full access to all subjects on the website, including all of our lesson plans and other resources. You must add at least one teacher to a school free trial to see the website content. We limit downloads during free trials. Sign up here.

The cost depends on the size of your school and the number of subjects you buy. The more subjects you choose to buy, the less each subject costs. School membership covers an unlimited number of users in your school.

Schools can upgrade at any point in their subscription year and still benefit from the multi-subject discount. If you upgrade your subscription part way through the subscription year, we pro-rate the price and length of the subscription for the extra subject(s) so that access to all your subjects ends on the same date.

See school pricing here.

Of course! In fact we very much encourage it. The more the merrier as far as we are concerned.

If you are trying to place an order and nothing happens, please check:

1. Have you selected the subjects you wish to buy? 
2. Have you confirmed that you accept our terms of use and privacy policy?
3. Are there any error messages?

If you have any further issues, please contact us at [email protected] where a member of our team will be happy to help you.

The main school administrator for the Kapow Primary account can renew via their dashboard.

Otherwise, please email [email protected], confirming the subjects you wish to renew.

Please also email [email protected]  if you wish to try or add extra subjects when you renew or are interested in a multi-year subscription.

You can add a subject at any time and still benefit from the multi-subject discount. You may not drop or cancel a subject or swap one subject for another subject part-way through a subscription year.

Kapow Primary subscriptions last for a minimum of one year, but we’d be happy to discuss multi-year terms if required. Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions about this.

The account administrator for your school account can create sub-accounts for each member of staff so they have their own logons for Kapow Primary.

If you cannot add someone, contact us immediately at [email protected] providing the email address of the person you need to add.

Watch this short video to show you what to do: How to add extra users.

Our Wellbeing module is free of charge to any member of Kapow Primary. If you do not want to buy one of our paid memberships, you can sign up for a free account. This provides full access to our Wellbeing lessons. We will also send you our regular newsletters so you can keep up to date with all the new content and developments at Kapow Primary.

Yes. Our resources are designed around the national curriculum for primary schools in England, but the practical nature of Kapow Primary’s subjects and our adaptable resources mean that teachers from all over the world find inspiration and time-saving content. Several international schools are members of Kapow Primary.

We are unable to offer individual teacher memberships other than our free Wellbeing module.

The lesson presentations are not downloadable or editable for technical and copyright reasons.

The teacher and pupil videos are for streaming only and cannot be downloaded.  If you want to collect the videos in one place to share with your colleagues, we suggest you share the links to the lesson pages instead.

We limit downloads for users during a free trial.

Otherwise, if you cannot download a pdf or editable document, this is likely to be because some browsers’ security settings block downloads from sites that are not authorised. Once you have authorised the Kapow Primary website, you will then be able to download resources. You will be able to search online for help to unblock our resources for your particular browser.

Please note that it is not possible to download presentations or videos.

You can find our plans from any page on our website. Simply hover over the subject you’re interested in at the top of the website, and a drop-down menu will appear. You can navigate different key stages, units and lesson plans from here.

To ensure that each teacher at your school can use Kapow Primary at the same time, each teacher should have their own login.

Membership of Kapow Primary comes with unlimited logins and downloads for every member of staff at your school.  Your school administrator for Kapow Primary can set up a login for new teachers, or alternatively email [email protected]

If you are trying to place an order and nothing happens, please check:

1. Have you selected the subjects you wish to buy? 
2. Have you confirmed that you accept our terms of use and privacy policy?
3. Are there any error messages?

If you have any further issues, please contact us at [email protected] where a member of our team will be happy to help you.

We provide resources that cater to different assessment methods for all units in all subjects. These include unit quizzes, knowledge catchers and assessment spreadsheets. For more information, see our blog Assessment Tools and Tips for Foundation Subjects.

• Click ‘Forgotten your password’ on the main login page. 
• Add your email address and click reset 
• Check your email for a new link to arrive. 

If you get stuck, contact us at [email protected]

Yes, our RSE & PSHE scheme covers all the requirements of the RSE/SRE statutory guidance, as well as aspects of PSHE which aren’t covered in the RSE framework, such as economic wellbeing and democracy.

The lesson presentations are not downloadable or editable for technical and copyright reasons.

Yes, you can use Kapow Primary anywhere you have access to the internet.

You can find printable Word and PDF versions of the lesson plans on the lesson pages. When you scroll down, a dark grey bar will appear at the top of the page. Click on the arrow pointing downward to download the plan. To avoid missing out on updated content, only print the lesson plans as close to the date of teaching the lesson as possible.  If you want to share the lesson with colleagues, share a link to the lesson instead to ensure they see the most recent version.

If you have a paid subscription to Kapow Primary, you will be able to download many of our classroom resources (other than the videos and presentations) and then edit them to suit your needs.

The teacher and pupil videos are for streaming only and cannot be downloaded.  If you want to collect the videos in one place to share with your colleagues, we suggest you share the links to the lesson pages instead.

We discourage teachers from downloading lesson plans far in advance in case they miss out on updates.  We understand that many schools do expect teachers to upload plans to their systems, but suggest uploading links instead – many schools do this and embed links to Kapow Primary into their intranets.  In that way, teachers always have access to the most up-to-date versions and see the CPD videos.

We limit downloads for users during a free trial.

Otherwise, if you cannot download a pdf or editable document, this is likely to be because some browsers’ security settings block downloads from sites that are not authorised. Once you have authorised the Kapow Primary website, you will then be able to download resources. You will be able to search online for help to unblock our resources for your particular browser.

Please note that it is not possible to download presentations or videos.

We have found that a small number of schools’ security systems block our videos. If this happens, you need to ask your IT department to mark Kapow Primary and www.wistia.com as safe sites.

Yes!  We are constantly tweaking and improving our lessons, updating links, clarifying points and incorporating more CPD.  While you are a subscriber you can always access the latest version of a lesson online.  This is one reason why we recommend not printing lesson plans too far in advance – save links to the lessons instead.

At the time of creating our resources, and periodically, we check all the links. Sometimes a third-party may remove certain content, so the links will no longer work. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know which links aren’t working and which lesson you were looking at. We’ll get them updated for you.

The account administrator for your school account can create sub-accounts for each member of staff so they have their own logons for Kapow Primary.

If you cannot add someone, contact us immediately at [email protected] providing the email address of the person you need to add.

Watch this short video to show you what to do: How to add extra users.

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Contact us if you are still having problems at [email protected]

If you are trying to place an order and nothing happens, please check:

1. Have you selected the subjects you wish to buy? 
2. Have you confirmed that you accept our terms of use and privacy policy?
3. Are there any error messages?

If you have any further issues, please contact us at [email protected] where a member of our team will be happy to help you.

UK schools should be able to reclaim the VAT on a Kapow Primary subscription. We will send you a VAT receipt to enable you to do so.

Get in touch with our finance team via [email protected] and they’ll be happy to help.

You can pay with a credit card, or ask us to send you an invoice. It doesn’t matter to us either way. You get immediate access and do not need to wait for us to receive payment before enjoying the resources. If you prefer to pay by invoice, we will send this to the finance contact at your school if you provide their details when you sign up. Our payment terms are 30 days.

Yes, our RSE & PSHE scheme covers all the requirements of the RSE/SRE statutory guidance, as well as aspects of PSHE which aren’t covered in the RSE framework, such as economic wellbeing and democracy.

Please contact us at [email protected] and let us know what you think of Kapow Primary.

We always welcome and encourage feedback as our product is ever-evolving.