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Topic boxes

We offer a range of topic boxes for primary, nursery and special schools covering:

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Years

  • 1930s/1940s (KS2)
  • 1950s/1960s (KS2)
  • 1970s/1980s (KS2)

A

  • Aboriginal art (primary, KS3)
  • Africa (primary)
  • African village: Yorogo (primary)
  • Air raid shelter: World War II (KS2)
  • Ancient Egypt (KS2)
  • Ancient Greece (KS2)
  • Ancient Sumer: avoid being a Sumerian slave (KS2 reading set)
  • Anglo-Saxons (KS2)
  • Animals (N, KS1)
  • Animals (KS2L)
  • Animals (KS2U)
  • Australia (primary)
  • Autumn (N, KS1)
  • Aztecs (KS2)

B

  • Barnaby bear (KS1)
  • Birds (KS1)
  • Birds (KS2)
  • Brazil (KS2)
  • Buddhism (primary)

C

  • Can’t you sleep little bear? storybox (N, KS1)
  • Castles (primary)
  • Childhood (KS2)
  • China (primary)
  • Chinese New Year (primary)
  • Christianity (primary)
  • Christianity: Bible (primary)
  • Christianity: church and ceremonies (primary)
  • Christianity: Easter (primary)
  • Christianity: Jesus (primary)
  • Christmas (N, KS1)
  • Christmas (KS2)
  • Clothes (N, KS1)
  • Coasts (KS2)
  • Colour (N, KS1)
  • Crime and punishment in Britain (KS2 reading set)

D

  • Deserts and hot places (KS1)
  • Dinosaurs (N, KS1)
  • Dragons (N, KS1, KS2L)

E

  • Electricity (KS1)
  • Electricity (KS2)
  • Energy (KS2U)
  • Environment (KS1)
  • Environment (KS2)
  • Europe (KS2)
  • Evacuee’s suitcase: World War II (KS2)
  • Everyday life in the distant past (KS1)
  • Everyday life in living memory (KS1)
  • Evolution and inheritance (KS2U)
  • Explorers (KS2)
  • Exploring the Maya Empire (KS2 reading set)

F

  • Fairy tales (N, KS1)
  • Famous people: Guy Fawkes (KS1, KS2L)
  • Famous people: Florence Nightingale (KS1, KS2L)
  • Festivals and celebrations (N, KS1)
  • Festivals and celebrations (KS2)
  • Food and farming (KS1)
  • Food and farming (KS2)
  • Forces and movement (KS1)
  • Forces and movement (KS2L)
  • Forces and movement (KS2U)
  • France (KS2)

G

  • Great Fire of London (KS1, KS2L)

H

  • Habitats (KS1)
  • Handa’s surprise storybox (N, KS1)
  • Healthy lifestyle (KS1)
  • Healthy lifestyle (KS2)
  • Hinduism (primary)
  • Hinduism: Diwali (primary)
  • Houses and homes (KS1)
  • Houses and homes (KS2L)
  • Human body (N, KS1)
  • Human body (KS2)

I

  • India (primary)
  • Indus Valley trade: trading up (KS2U reading set)
  • Invaders and settlers (KS2)
  • Inventions (KS2)
  • Islam (primary)
  • Islamic empires (KS2 reading set)
  • Island home and Katie Morag (KS1)
  • Italy (KS2)

J

  • Judaism (primary)
  • Judaism: Hanukkah (primary)
  • Judaism: Passover (primary)

K

  • Kenya (primary)
  • Killhope Museum (primary)

L

  • Life processes (KS1)
  • Light (KS1)
  • Light (KS2)
  • Lindisfarne gospels (KS2)
  • Living things and their habitats (KS2)
  • Local communities (KS1)
  • Local communities (KS2)

M

  • Maps and mapping (primary)
  • Mary Anning (primary)
  • Masks (primary, KS3)
  • Materials (N, KS1)
  • Materials (KS2)
  • Mayans (KS2)
  • Mexico (primary, KS3)
  • Minibeasts (N, KS1)
  • Minibeasts (KS2)
  • Mining (primary, KS3)
  • Mining: you wouldn’t want to be a Victorian miner (KS2 reading set)
  • Monarchy (KS2)
  • Mountains (KS2)
  • Music (primary)
  • Musical instruments: small hands (special needs)

N

  • Natural resources (KS2)
  • Nocturnal animals (primary)
  • Nursery rhymes (N)

O

  • Ourselves (N, KS1)
  • Ourselves (KS2)
  • Owl babies storybox (N, KS1)

P

  • People who help us (N, KS1)
  • Pets (N, KS1)
  • Pilgrimage (KS2)
  • Pirates (N, KS1, KS2L)
  • Plants (KS1)
  • Plants (KS2)
  • Poetry (N, KS1)
  • Poetry (KS2)
  • Polar lands (N, KS1)

R

  • Rainforests (N, KS1)
  • Rainforests (KS2)
  • Remembrance Day (KS1, KS2L reading set)
  • Rivers (KS1)
  • Rivers (KS2)
  • Rocks and soil (KS2)
  • Romans (KS2)

S

  • School (N, KS1)
  • Seaside holidays (N, KS1)
  • Shackleton & Scott of the Antarctic (primary)
  • Shang Dynasty of Ancient China (KS2U reading set)
  • Shapes and patterns (N, KS1)
  • Shaypeds: nursery
  • Shaypeds: reception
  • Signs and symbols (primary)
  • Sikhism (primary)
  • Sound (KS1)
  • Sound (KS2)
  • South America (primary, KS3)
  • Space (N, KS1)
  • Space (KS2)
  • Spring (N, KS1)
  • Stone Age to Iron Age (KS2)
  • Structures (N, KS1)
  • Structures (KS2L)
  • Structures (KS2U)
  • Summer (N, KS1)
  • Superheroes (N, KS1, KS2L)

T

  • Texture (special needs, N)
  • Titanic (KS2)
  • Toys (N, KS1)
  • Traditional tales (KS2L)
  • Traditional tales (KS2U)
  • Travel and transport (N, KS1)
  • Travel and transport (KS2)
  • Tudor world (KS2)
  • Twentieth Century Britain (KS2)

U

  • UK (primary)
  • Under the sea (N, KS1)
  • USA (KS2)

V

  • Victorian Britain (KS2)
  • Victorian children’s clothes (primary)
  • Victorian home (primary)
  • Victorian ladies’ clothes (primary)
  • Victorian men’s clothes (primary)
  • Victorian parlour (primary)
  • Victorian schoolroom (primary)
  • Victorian washday (primary)
  • Victorian work (primary)
  • Vikings (KS2)
  • Volcanoes and earthquakes (KS2)

W

  • Water (KS1)
  • Water (KS2)
  • Weather (KS1)
  • Weather (KS2)
  • West Africa (primary, KS3)
  • Winter (N, KS1)
  • World (primary)
  • World War I (KS2)
  • World War II (KS2)

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