William Davis Primary School
William Davis Primary School is a primary school in London for ages 3 to 11.
Practise what William Davis Primary School is teaching this term
Daily maths in the order William Davis Primary School teaches it, where its maps give one. English keeps to the usual order for their year. Start with a free five-minute class.
At a glance
- Type
- Community school, run by the council
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Pupils
- 151
- Who it's for
- Boys and girls
- Address
- Wood Close, London, E2 6ET
- Phone
- 02077 391511
The school's websiteResults and performanceFull register entryMap
What each year group is learning
From William Davis Primary School's curriculum maps.
ReceptionAutumn and Summer and Spring and Autumn 1 and Autumn 2 and Spring 1 and Spring 2
- Writing
- Labelling family trees and annotating cooking photos. Writing recipes, shopping lists and a class poem
- Science
- Seasonal change and how animals prepare for winter. Changing materials through cooking. Making a bee hotel and bird spotting. Forces, materials, animals and habitats. Space explorers and inventors. Knowing how day length varies. Finding out which materials float in water and which sink
- History
- Family trees and comparing old and new objects
- Geography
- Seasonal change and mapping an autumn walk. Place knowledge and investigating the world
- Art
- Self portraits and cooking soup and gingerbread. Close observation drawing and painting of plants. Naming the primary colours and basic art equipment. Mixing primary colours to make secondary colours. Making lighter and darker colours using black and white. Drawing lines that can be organic or geometric. Subtractive drawing, removing media from the paper. Symbolism in works of art. Drawing bodies and representing a face with a circle. Sculpting bodies with playdough and plasticine. Collage as a picture made from different materials. Reduction printing, removing part of a block to layer colours. Cubism, showing objects as geometric shapes from many angles. Close observational drawing and painting of daffodils, fruit and vegetables
- Design and technology
- Making story props. Joining different materials with glue, tape and fixings. Knowing that some food changes when cooked or heated
- Music
- Singing songs such as Witch Witch and Row Row Your Boat. Songs including Down There Under the Sea and It's Oh So Quiet
- PE
- Early years stories movement and fundamental movement skills. Ball skills and fundamental movement. Pirate and jungle gymnastics and dance
- RE
- Where do we belong and what makes stories special. Christmas. Recognising that people have different beliefs and celebrating special times in different ways. Naming people who help others in the community and their different roles. Identifying special places where people go to worship and what people do there. Retelling Bible stories and stories from another faith about caring for others and the world. Describing how Jewish people show their beliefs through worship in festivals
- PSHE
- Family, rules, keeping safe, taking turns and feelings. Internet safety and keeping healthy
Year 1Autumn and Spring and Spring 1 and Spring 2 and Summer 1
- Science
- Understanding how animals obtain food from plants and other animals using food chains. How fossils are formed when living things are trapped within rock. How soils are made from rocks and organic matter. Grouping materials as solids, liquids or gases. The role of evaporation and condensation in the water cycle. Separating mixtures through filtering, sieving and evaporating. Reversible changes such as dissolving, mixing and changes of state. Irreversible changes such as burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda. Naming and labelling the basic parts of the human body and the senses. Distinguishing between an object and the material it is made from. Suitability of everyday materials for particular uses. How the shapes of solid objects can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching. How things move on different surfaces. Magnets attracting and repelling and magnetic materials
- Design and technology
- Building and testing freestanding structures from different materials. Making fruit and vegetable snacks and healthy food. Sewing a running stitch to join fabric
Year 2Autumn 2 and Summer 2
- Design and technology
- Making wheel mechanisms to move a simple vehicle. Folding paper to increase its strength
Year 3Autumn and Spring and Summer and Autumn 2 and Spring 2
- Maths
- Place value, addition and subtraction. Multiplication and division
- Reading
- Reading class stories such as Greta and the Giants and The Pebble in my Pocket
- Writing
- First person narrative descriptions and non-chronological reports. Formal letters and poetry on a theme
- Science
- Rocks and soils and animals including humans. Forces and magnets. Plants and light
- History
- Stone Age to Iron Age. Roman invasion of Britain
- Geography
- Maps and fieldwork and human and physical features. OS map skills and a UK study
- Computing
- Computing systems and networks, including connecting computers
- Art
- Drawing and painting. Printmaking
- Design and technology
- Food technology. Textiles. Stiffening fabric so it holds a shape. Designing levers and linkages that change the direction of movement
- Music
- Learning to play recorders, drums and percussion instruments
- PE
- Swimming, handball, dance and athletics
- PSHE
- Staying safe, including personal safety and fire safety. Relationships, feelings and emotions
Year 4Summer 1 and Autumn 2 and Summer 2
- Design and technology
- Making triangles to form trusses that add stability. Adding fastenings such as shank buttons to fabric. Using switches in electrical circuits
Year 5Autumn and Spring and Summer and Spring 1 and Autumn 1 and Summer 1
- Maths
- Place value within 1,000,000. Addition and subtraction. Decimals and percentages. Measure perimeter and area. Graphs and tables. Geometry: properties of shape and position and direction. Negative numbers. Measure: converting units and volume
- Reading
- Wind in the Willows, The Borrowers, Boy Giant and Why Money Matters. The Wrong Shoes, Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover, The Rabbits. Secrets of a Sun King, A Wrinkle in Time, Climate Action
- Writing
- Third person stories and dialogue in narrative. Short mystery story and extended explanation. Biography, playscripts and balanced argument
- Science
- Properties of materials. Animals including humans. Earth and space. Living things and their habitats. Structures
- History
- Ancient Greece
- Geography
- Locate world countries and biomes. 4 and 6 figure grid references. Map skills and orienteering
- Computing
- Data and information: flat-file databases. Programming: selection in quizzes. Introduction to vector graphics
- Art
- Printmaking. Textiles and collage and painting
- Design and technology
- Design and technology. Using gears and pulleys to lift loads. Making flatbread and presenting foods to a high standard. Reinforcing frames with braces, gussets and struts
- Music
- Drums and tuned percussion. Introduction to songwriting
- PE
- Swimming. Handball and dance. Athletics and rounders. Tag rugby. Cricket, tennis and basketball. Hockey and netball
- PSHE
- Online safety and computer safety. First aid
Year 6Autumn and Spring and Summer and Summer 1 and Summer 2 and Autumn 1 and Autumn 2
- Maths
- Place value within 10,000,000. Four operations. Fractions. Imperial and metric measures. Ratio and proportion. Decimals. Percentages. Perimeter, area and volume. Statistics. Properties of shapes. Position and direction
- Reading
- Secrets of a Sun King, The Rabbits, The Wrong Shoes and Climate Action. Introduction to Dickens through extracts from Oliver Twist
- Writing
- Biography. Poetry on a theme. Descriptive writing. Information guide. Short adventure story. Letter of advice. Short mystery story. Discursive writing and speeches. Scriptwriting
- Science
- Properties of materials. Animals including humans. Earth and space. Living things and their habitats. Mechanisms
- History
- Golden Age of Islam. Ancient Greece
- Geography
- Locate world countries and biomes. 4 and 6 figure grid references. Map skills and orienteering
- Computing
- Creating media: web page creation. Selection in physical computing programming. Google Slides
- Art
- Printmaking. Textiles and collage. Painting
- Design and technology
- Structures. Designing and making street food snacks. Recycling and repurposing plastic waste into useful items. Guy lines and flying buttresses to support tall structures. Series and parallel circuits in electrical products
- Music
- Tuned percussion. Recorders
- PE
- Tag rugby. Handball and dance. Athletics, rounders and basketball. Cricket and tennis. Hockey and netball
- PSHE
- Wellbeing. Being responsible and first aid
Read on 11 November 2026 from the school's Curriculum Maps page and the school's Wider Curriculum page. The maps: Reception curriculum map, Progression Overview, Progression Overview, Progression Overview, Progression Overview, -, ​Y3/4 Elm Class curriculum map, Y5 Ash Class curriculum map, Y6 Oak Class curriculum map.
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School details: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education, URN 100943. Checked 9 November 2026.
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Help your child with what William Davis Primary School is teaching this term
Daily maths in the order the school teaches it, English in the usual order for their year, with a weekly view of what they have mastered.