Thames View Primary School

Inspiring Learning Every Day

At Thames View Primary School, we are committed to providing an education that empowers every child to realise their dreams, goals, and ambitions. By working closely with parents, colleagues, and the wider community, we ensure that pupils not only achieve academic success but also thrive personally in a caring and safe environment.

We inspire and engage our pupils through a broad and enriching curriculum that nurtures curiosity and fosters a love of learning, preparing them to become lifelong, responsible learners.

Our core values of Respect, Responsibility, and Resilience are woven through all aspects of school life. These values equip our pupils with the confidence and character to flourish in a constantly changing world.

A curriculum with knowledge, skills and reading at its heart

We offer a rich and inspiring curriculum that helps pupils explore the world through a wide range of perspectives. Learning is carefully planned to build progressively year-on-year, giving children the chance to deepen their knowledge and develop essential skills. We use pupil feedback and school data to shape a curriculum that is tailored to their needs, ensuring it remains relevant, engaging, and reflective of our ever-changing local and global community.

Our curriculum is designed with a clear focus on both knowledge and skills. Through carefully sequenced learning journeys, we provide high-quality lessons that enable pupils to know more, remember more, and do more within creative and stimulating contexts. Where appropriate, subjects are meaningfully connected so that learning experiences are complementary, relevant, and build securely on prior knowledge, while meeting and extending the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum.

We enrich topics through the use of high-quality, diverse texts that develop pupils’ reading skills and foster a lifelong love of reading. Learning is further enhanced by purposeful educational visits and inspirational visitors, which bring subjects to life and provide valuable, memorable experiences for all pupils.

	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Year R	Me, Myself and I	Bear Necessities	Terrific Tales	Amazing Authors	Come Outside!	Around the World in 35 Days
	Development Matters & Early Years Framework
Year 1	My Local Area	My Family History	The Space Race	The Animal Kingdom	Hot and Cold Places	The Seaside
Year 2	Ocean Explorers	Toys Through Time	Titanic	Terrific Trees	Rio Rocks!	Commanding Castles
Year 3	Food, Glorious Food	Inventive Victorians	Nature’s Revenge	Chocolate	The Prehistoric World	Invaders and Raiders
Year 4	Romans Rule	Magnificent Mountains	Glorious Greece	It’s all Greek to Me!	Our Changing World	Smashing Saxons
Year 5	Out of this World	Epic Egyptians	Henry VIII Rules!	Go with the Flow	Save the Rainforest	Maritime Medway
Year 6	Britain at War! World War 1	Britain at War! World War 2	Hola Mexico	The Ancient Maya	Spectacular Spain	Plastic Pollution

For a detailed breakdown of each unit, and to see how our subjects are organised to complement and enrich one another, please download the full Thames View Primary Long Term Plan below.

How We Bring Learning to Life

We make meaningful links across subjects and topics so that pupils can deepen and contextualise their understanding. Established schemes of learning in Science, RE, PE, PSHE, Music and Computing ensure that key knowledge and skills are taught in a well-sequenced and effective way.

Learning at Thames View combines structured teaching with opportunities for open-ended enquiry, often guided by “big questions” to spark curiosity. Pupils learn through a balance of practical and written activities, with the outdoors used as an extension of the classroom. Enrichment opportunities, including educational visits and visiting experts, play a vital role in bringing learning to life and enhancing the quality of education we provide.

To find out more about our individual subjects, click the links below:

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