Our Curriculum Documents

The full curriculum
Outdoor and Canal Curriculum. Our complete curriculum, from Early Years to Year 6. For each year group and each term, it sets out the Grow, Explore and Achieve activities alongside their National Curriculum or Early Learning Goal links.

Overviews for parents and carers
Outdoor Learning at a Glance (PDF). A one-page summary for each year group, showing the kinds of outdoor experiences children will enjoy across the year. These are written as a broad overview rather than a fixed programme, because our outdoor learning follows the seasons and the weather.

  • Early Years (EYFS): Planting, nature walks, minibeast hunts and early canal exploring. Our youngest children learn through play, mud and all their senses.
  • Year 1: Growing from seed, listening for sounds along the canal, getting to know our trees and a trip on the canal.
  • Year 2: Canal walks, map reading, meeting the people who look after the canal, and growing food for a picnic to share.
  • Year 3: Growing and cooking a class meal, canal scavenger hunts, orienteering and making art from natural materials.
  • Year 4: Surveying canal wildlife, foraging, outdoor cooking, bird watching and building and testing small rafts.
  • Year 5: Monitoring the canal through the year, mapping its course, building shelters and designing activities for younger children.
  • Year 6: Becoming leaders of the outdoor curriculum by planning crops, teaching younger children and caring for our environment.

Useful Links & Documents