In an attempt to rationalise my collections of resources, I’m going to try to post all of the various things I’ve shared here on a central page. Please feel free to download and share them with primary colleagues.
Video Resources
Key Stage 1 Tests – Parents Information Video (downloadable version here)
Key Stage 2 Tests – Parents Information Video (downloadable version here)
Calculating Progress Video (downloadable version here)
New Curriculum Organisation Resources
 EYFS Curriculum Overview |
 EYFS Jigsaw template |
 KS1-KS2 Curriculum Overview |
 Blank Curriculum Overview Template |
 Reading Progression map |
 Writing Progression map |
 Maths Progression map |
 Core Subject Changes in detail |
 NC Changes Powerpoint |
 Rising Stars Curriculum Guide for Parents |
 Jo Harbour‘s KIRFs for Primary Maths |
 Tim Clarke‘s Music progression document |
 Bryn Goodman‘s Computing Assessment Tables |
History ‘Cheat Sheets’
 Download the full booklet of ‘cheat sheets (8MB)’ |
 1. Stone Age to Iron Age |
2. Roman Britain |
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3. Anglo-Saxons & Scots |
4. Anglo-Saxons & Vikings |
5. Ancient Greece |
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6. Ancient Sumer |
7. Indus Valley |
8. Ancient Egypt |
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9. Shang Dynasty of China |
10. Early Islamic Civilisation |
11. Mayan Civilisation |
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12. Benin, West Africa |
Assessment Resources
 Reading Key Objectives |
 Writing Key Objectives |
 Maths Key Objectives |
 Science Key Objectives |
 Foundation Subject Tracking |
Ramblings of a Teacher 
Is number 12 on Benin missing from the history cheat sheets?
I’m afraid it’s the only one that’s not yet complete. Partly because of the fact that the DfE chose a dreadful period to highlight, and partly because it’s been the hardest to put together!
Hi Michael. Firstly i would like to say a big thanks for sharing such fantastic resources 🙂 Secondly could i just ask if you do a KS1 history cheats? Or any other cheats, I found the KS2 one so helpful.
Thanks
Kerry
Thanks for generously sharing these resources. Even though the curriculum is different I am sure the progress maps will be especially useful for new teachers like myself.
Hi akursho please can you just confirm what you mean by the curriculum is different? Are you teaching in UK?
Amazing! Thank you!
Amazing!! Thankyou for these!
Thank you so much for sharing these resources. Easy to use and very teacher friendly! Thanks again 🙂
Thanks, they are very clear to understand and follow the progression per subject.
Thank you great resources
Thanks!
Many thanks – shared these at my school too. Much appreciated.
Hello, I might be being really stupid, but are there areas missing in the ‘key objectives’ as i see no mention of addition in the y4 tracker grids. Can you help?
Hi Dan – thanks for your message.
It’s a result of the selection of the “key” elements. Given that column addition with 3 digits is required in Y3, it seems rather pointless to focus on the continuation to 4 digits in Y4, when there is no conceptual difference. I would argue that this is one of the (many) flaws in the design of the curriculum, which I have tried not to be dragged down by!
Dear Michael
Thank you for sharing your resources. I couldn’t agree with your comments about commercial schemes and making the tracking more important than the assessment of children’s learning. You have saved me hours of time.
I couldn’t agree more either. Representing children’s learning in a cell of spreadsheet is surely the least most effective way to move children’s learning forward. More time spent feeding back to a child about their next learning step and explaining how to get there would give far better outcomes than hours spent inputting data.
Word missing from my above comment it should read couldn’t agree more……..
Thank you so much!! Excellent resources, great for a student teacher like me.
This has restored my faith that altruism is alive and well. These resources are superb and so easy to use. Such generosity is rare and greatly appreciated.
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Michael – Thank you for the generous sharing of these resources. I have shared them on Twitter and on Facebook for my friends overseas. Working tougher in education. 🙂
Thank you kind sir for all your hard work and generosity. Its individuals like yourself that keeps me sane and wanting to remain in the job. I salute you!
Thank you!!!!!!
Hi,
Amazing tracking sheets. Just wondering if it would be possible to assign a pupil criteria e.g FSM of SEN and have the data generate based on that group. We have to track quite a few different groups and not just the whole cohort. Many thanks
Is it possible in theory? Absolutely.
Am I likely to get round to producing spreadsheets in that form any time soon? I can’t guarantee it! Do feel free to amend and adapt them to suit your school, though.
Many thanks for your reply. Can you point me in the right direction. I am an excel novice but learning rapidly (I recently discovered the joy of Pivot Tables!). How could I attach multiple markers to one child e.g SEN, PPM and Male and then get the sheet to interrogate the data for all groups?
I’m no expert either. What i have done previously when using excel for level-based tracking was to add columns for each group and then just add flags for those who were members of the group. Then you can filter by group and show results of filtered groups. I suspect there are better ways, but i haven’t invested the time in that yet!
Hi Matt, not an expert but we have an extra column & write in FSM, EAL, SEN etc – some children will have two or more eg EAL/SEN. Then, as Michael says, you can use the filter to view the groups separately…
Thank you for putting all of this together and sharing. It is a fabulous help in writing the curriculum for my year groups in our brand new school.
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I’m subject leader for History at my school. The history cheat sheets look great, and I will be sharing them in school. What a generous-spirited website! How on earth do you find the time?
There was lots of generosity from others in making these!
Brilliant resources, really supports clarity and understanding
Sent here via my PGCE course……a great help!
So, so grateful for these tracking sheets. You have saved me hours. And so generously giving them free. Thank you.
Brilliant thank you.
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Thank you very much for providing these great resources. Are they editable? I’m not sure if I’m using them incorrectly but I wanted to add a couple of school related objectives and don’t seem to be able to. Thanks again.
Hello Bev – yes, almost everything is editable, but the spreadsheets have protection switched on, just to prevent any accidental over-writing. You can switch it off (no password is needed) by going to the “Review” toolbar in Excel and choosing “Unprotect sheet”. You’ll need to do this for each page you want to edit.
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Seems so little for so much, but thank you.
Great resources and so clear. You have saved me so much time and headaches. Thank you for your generosity😊
Michael, these are great resources and very much appreciated. I follow your blog and am comforted that I am not the only one who feels this way. Many thanks for your efforts on behalf of us all.
Iain
You are one AMAZING man. These resources are incredible and just what teachers need. The fact that you share them for free is so generous. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for sharing these resources, it makes it all very clear for even a new teacher. Your presentation of all the changes is very thought provoking! Catherine
Thank you very much for your work and for sharing it. I’m starting my first job in September and these resources will really help. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for the many useful resources on this page. I’m starting to plan for next year in Year 6 and this has been the best source of guidance.
Thanks again!
Thanks for the resources- history cheat sheets have been a great help this year. Is there one that covers WW1/2? I guess this comes under the local area study part of the curriculum. What objectives need to be met? There are only 3 bullet points on the national curriculum P.O.S!
Hello Kate,
No, I’m afraid there’s no intention to do a Local history sheet because they would inevitably be different everywhere.
As you say, the requirements of the National Curriculum are quite sparse, so within that you have freedom as a school.
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These are fantastic, thank you very much for producing them and sharing them!
Thanks so much – simple and easy to follow objectives.
Micheal – I am so glad I stumbled across you free resources, thanks so much for your time and effort to share. I supplement my daughter’s education by increasing her learning ability at home because she appears to have auditory processing disorder and doesn’t take in much from the class environment. Using your resources is cutting down my time in researching as my background is not teaching but coaching. Thanks again.
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So many people saying thank you to you Micheal, you can add me to that long list, and here it is once again, thank you very much.
Dear Michael.
I echo all the comments on your generosity in sharing all these resources – many thanks, they are great.
Hi Michael
I noticed that you suggested a few of the above people were free to adjust your trackers for their own schools. That is great! Thank you hugely from someone who has such little time to create my own from scratch. However, I am trying to do just that and your spread sheets seem to be locked. Any chance you can email/publish an ‘unlocked’ version?
Many thanks
Angie
Hi Angie,
The files are only locked to prevent accidental editing/deletion by mistake. You can unlock them simply by clicking on the Review tab and choosing the “Unprotect sheet” button. There is no password to enter. Hope they’re useful.
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Thank you. Some absolutely terrific resources which have made my second week of Headship slightly less stressful!
Is it possible to download your 2 new videos?
Hi, these are great resources, thank you for sharing. Are you happy for me to share your resources with parents on our school website?
Yes, please do
Good morning..I am looking at your tracking sheets. Is there a way of extending the 1,2,3 for achievements to a six point scale?
Many thanks
I have just entered my data, as I found yours SO helpful to give parents a rough guide of where their child is overall. It also reassured me greatly. Thank you so much for taking the time to set it up.
Fantastic resources. Thank you so much for sharing 🙂
Thank you for sharing!
Can I ask looking at the assessment tracking for year 1 maths is this an updated version of tracking and monitoring because when I look at the NEW curriculum it doesn’t seem to match the objectives? Thanks maria
It’s not intended to replicate the whole curriculum. To do that, you might as well just highlight the document. It is built on selected Key Objectives, although you’re welcome to edit them.
A truly fantastic set of resources. Thank you for sharing your expertise. Would it be possible for our school to put a link to your ks1 and 2 assessment videos on their website (and of course acknowledgement). Thank you once again.
Yes, please feel free to share them in any way that suits
I have just come across your blog and you have suddenly become an instant hero of mine. Thanks for all of the brilliant resources.
Hi Michael,
Have you done any work around KPIs for foundation subjects? We have been looking at the NAHT KPIs for maths and English and thought about selecting some of the most important programmes of study for each foundation subject for each year group. Do you know if this has been done already somewhere??
Thanks
I have, although these are inevitably ‘bespoke’ to our school, as they match the teaching sequence we use. I’d be happy to share them with you if you email via the About link above.
Thanks I have emailed 😀
Thank you for sharing your tracking spreadsheets which we are currently trialling.
Where key objectives are the same for 2 year groups (e.g.Year 3 and 4 writing) how would you recommend we show progress through year/between years, given we are expecting children to reach age related expectations at the end of the each year group? Or should year 3 children (for instance) only have met 1/6 of the key objectives by Autumn 1 to be on track?!
I meant end of Autumn 2 (when year 3 are 1/6 of their way through lower ks2).
Cheers!
I can’t seem to open the writing for purpose resources at all. They seem to be really useful. If you could let me know how to download that would be great.
They should just automatically download from the links. Perhaps you have something blocking the links? If you email me (info@primarycurriculum.me.uk) I’ll happily email them across
Wow! Thank you Michael. I was desperate for Reading mark book objectives for Year Two but ended up having to overhaul all my records( Writing, Maths and Science). Thank you so much for all your hard work! Just a quick question…..may sound a bit off…How can I split them to termly…eg. Term 1, 2 and 3?
So so grateful.
Caroline
Hi there,
Does the writing progression map link to the current Literacy NC objectives?
Thanks so much!
The Writing Progression map is just the current (2014) National Curriculum objectives for English reorganised to show the progression, yes.
Many thanks Michael. these resources are fantastic
Dear Michael,
the resources you have published are excellent – and have been so very helpful. May I be allowed to use the summarised form of objectives for each subject for our school? The cheat sheets are excellent and I absolutely love the progression maps – so helpful for time squeezed colleagues,
A truly outstanding collection.
Please feel free to use the objectives as suits your school. Adopt and adapt as necessary!
Great stuff, thanks! 🙂
Dear Michael,
In the Y5 and 6 Maths Key Objectives, the place value objective is missing. Was this a conscious decision?
Thanks once again.
Do you mean that it doesn’t mention the place value for larger numbers? That was a deliberate choice, yes. My view is that if children understand place value at 3 and 4 digits, then there is nothing new to learn for larger numbers other than their names. If they can’t work with larger numbers, then they don’t really understand the smaller ones 🙂
Thank you Michael, and I am totally in agreement with you – the regularity of the number system, combined with the fact they will be using large numbers in calculations and rounding, means the concept should have been learned. Thank you once again for your wisdom.
First, thank you for this wonderful collection.
When I try to download the video explaining Key Stage 2, I get the video explaining Key Stage 1.
That’s odd. It’s working for me. The KS2 video download is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B1gffjhRUi0z2g-eAmxs07KEo_dQFdgy/view
Thank you for the concise, easy to follow resources 🙂
Hi! Did you post a suggested writing genre overview for KS1 and KS2 on your Twitter page – I can’t find it anywhere. 🙂 Thank you
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These are amazing and just what I have been looking for to map out the lower school curriculum. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Michael (And all!)
I’m interested to know what you are all using as a checklist for foundation subjects given the new Ofsted equal weighting? I’ve created a grid to use as an end of topic assessment with 1-4 gradings, which is meant to be a quick teacher tool (rather than a long winded assessment) for teachers to link topics with the skills needed in each subject area to stick in books with pupil feedback.
Michael, I am happy to share my idea and get your thoughts. I’ve linked the ‘not as we know it’ targets to Chris Quigley – the scheme our MAT is using (What a geographer looks like and so on).
Thanks for all your resources and tweets – it’s good to share 🙂
Hi Sarah, Thanks for your message. We don’t use checklists now, and nor do we use any particular tracking for foundation subjects. We do, though, use Knowledge Organisers to help set out the key knowledge we want children to learn, and use these for informal assessments throughout a unit.
Thanks Michael! Funnily enough we were discussing knowledge organisers today. We’re going to trial blocking out information as a quick recall task throughout the term for the children to see what they know!
Hi Michael,
Happy New Year to you! We’re on our way to sorting all this curriculum and assessment stuff…. but as you mentioned it, knowledge organisers seem to be the in thing at the moment and as such, there are so many models – have you developed your own, or sourced them elsewhere? And how do you avoid overload of information on a single sheet?
Love to hear your thoughts.
Hi Graham. We do use our own Knowledge Organisers, although I would be the first to say that the first thing I do when starting one is a quick google search to look at others. The main reason I like to produce them “in house” is because I like them to have a consistent form. Obviously every school’s curriculum is different, and so nobody else has a set that meets our needs.
You’re right to identify that the biggest problems is often overloading them with information. I find that teachers tend towards this when producing them for the first time, because they try to record everything that children might encounter during the topic. When teachers show me models like that, the first thing I do is look for an example of something that I might not have included and ask the teacher: If I asked one of your pupils that question in a year’s time, do you genuinely want them to have remembered the answer? If not, then it doesn’t deserve its place in the KO, which should be about the absolute core content that everyone will know. I quite like that someone else calls them 100% sheets at their school: drives that message home nicely.
Really grateful for your thoughts on this, and I’m pleased to have had similar thoughts and musings.
Thankfully many models exist online- unfortunately this is also a great challenge as the time taken to review the many is a drain on precious resources.
I also like the consistency point you raised – and am very pleased you also retain editorial control, which I too know we need.
Thank you for your kindness in responding.
Hello!
As a new teacher, I have only recently come across your wonderful resources and I am interested to know whether you still use the model of writing for four purposes? Does this support the writing progression document?
Thank you!