Subjects and skills (primary)

Learn how to plan and assess computing at the primary level. Find links to schemes of work, progression grids, assessment resources, and examples from a school and a local authority.

Learn how to create a computing curriculum that will equip your pupils with digital skills for life. Director of digital learning, Cheryl Shirley, shares top tips on how to structure your curriculum, embed computing in other subjects and upskill your staff on the trickiest parts of teaching the subject. Cheryl also signposts a number of resources to support teachers and enhance teaching.

Find out what goes into creating a dynamic RE curriculum, and how to do it yourself. Adam Smith takes you through the key considerations when designing your curriculum. Learn how to strike a balance between breadth and depth, nurture concepts and stories across the Key Stages, and assess your RE curriculum.

Strip your geography curriculum back to basics and focus on the fundamentals that will help all pupils succeed. Emma Lennard explains how to introduce and build on these key skills across the primary curriculum, and suggests ways to make best use of your local area to provide your pupils with all of the skills they’ll need to become successful geographers.

Help your budding artists by developing an art and design curriculum that will teach your pupils the skills, processes and concepts they need to flourish. Naomi Pilling covers how to connect your topics, plan in progression and how to develop the key skill required of any artist: the art of looking.

Specialist language teacher Ellie Chettle-Cully explains how to structure your modern foreign languages (MFL) curriculum, with a focus on vocabulary, grammar and phonics. Make sure your pupils make progress and leave primary school as successful linguists, whatever MFL you teach.

PSHE expert and former teacher John Rees shares his expertise to help you tackle the trickier parts of designing or updating your PSHE curriculum. Discover how to approach the sensitive topic of relationships and sex education with parents and carers, learn about pedagogy your teachers can use, and ways to incorporate skills and values, as well as knowledge.

Alex Pethick, director of curriculum for the Knowledge Schools Trust Primaries and director of the Primary Knowledge Curriculum (PKC) Partnership, explains how to bring the depth and breadth of history into your classrooms by focusing on chronology and sequencing – while also amplifying marginalised voices and bringing your local area to life.

Take your D&T curriculum beyond ‘making’, and put design and evaluation at the heart of everything your pupils do, while keeping costs manageable. Tom Turnham explains how. You'll also hear about sequencing your curriculum to build pupils’ skills, and how to make use of your local community to give pupils even more opportunities to learn.

All maintained schools must provide swimming lessons in Key Stage (KS) 1 or KS2. Find out what maintained schools and academies are required to publish online about pupils' swimming attainment and what to do if a parent/carer wants to withdraw their child from these lessons.

Be clear on what mastery means and see how you can help your teachers teach and assess it across the curriculum.

Find resources to help you deliver your relationships education curriculum, including lesson plans, activities and schemes of work.

Share our self-assessment tool with your geography teachers to evaluate their subject knowledge and teaching confidence. Use their reflections to help you fill in our audit tool, and find resources to help you address any gaps.

Use our self-assessment and audit tools to understand your staff's level of confidence in teaching history, and get some ideas for how to develop their skills further.

Find examples of resources for primary PSHE, including schemes of work, progression grids, and examples from schools. Understand how to plan your PSHE offer with examples of action plans and advice about timetabling.