Curriculum project loans

All of our pre-packed Foundation collections support the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) seven prime areas of learning and development. Take a look at the projects available to borrow. If there is a topic you want to teach that isn't listed, we can make up a box to suit your requirements.

PSHE:

• All about me
• Starting school
• Family
• Feelings
• Ourselves
• People who help us

Religion:

• Autumn festivals
• Birthdays
• Christmas
• Diwali
• Festivals and celebrations
• Holidays
• Winter festivals

Physical development:

• Healthy eating
• Food
• Food and cooking
• Senses

Mathematics:

• Maths and numbers

Geography:

• Africa
• Jungle
• London
• Polar lands
• Safari
• Seaside
• Transport and journeys
• Under the sea
• Where we live

Science:

• Aliens and space
• Dinosaurs
• Light
• Materials
• Space
• Water

Nature:

• Autumn
• Farming
• Growing
• Harvest
• Plants
• Weather and seasons

Animals:

• Animals
• Bears
• Minibeasts
• Nocturnal animals
• Pets
• Wild animals
• Zoos

Other:

• Castles
• Pirates
• Superheroes
• Toys

Literacy:

• Board Book collection
• Fairy Tales collection
• Giles Andrae collection
• Kipper Collection by Mick Inkpen
• Percy the Park Keeper collection by Nick Butterworth
• Picture books for Early Years
• Rhymes for Early Years
• Spot collection by Eric Hill

Our Key Stage 1 projects are designed to cover popular topics within the National Curriculum for Year 1 and Year 2. If there is a topic you want to teach that isn't listed, we can make up a box to suit your requirements.

Geography:

• Africa
• Around our school
• Around the world
• Australia
• Continents of the world
• Europe
• France
• Geographical features
• Homes around the world
• India
• Hot and cold countries
• Islands and coasts
• Jamaica
• London
• Maps and mapping
• Mexico
• Oceans and seas
• Polar lands
• Pollution and recycling
• Rainforests
• Safari
• Settlements
• Seaside (locality)
• Travel and transport
• Under the sea
• United Kingdom
• Woodlands

Science and nature:

• Aliens and space
• All about plants
• Animals
• Animals and senses Year 1
• Animals including Humans
• Autumn
• Electricity
• Everyday materials Year 1
• From farm to fork
• Growing plants Year 2
• Growth and health Year 2
• Habitats Year 2
• Inventors and inventions
• Dinosaurs
• Man on the moon
• Human body
• Light Year 1
• Materials
• Minibeasts
• Nocturnal animals
• Pets
• Plants Year 1
• Seaside science
• Seasonal change Year 1
• Senses
• Sound Year 2
• Space
• Using materials Year 2
• Weather
• Zoos

History:

• Castles
• Christopher Columbus
• Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
• Explorers
• Fire of Northampton
• Flight history
• Florence Nightingale
• Great fire of London
• Gunpowder plot
• Homes in the past
• Kings and Queens
• Pirates
• Remembrance Day
• Seaside holiday in the past
• Titanic
• Victorians
• Walter Tull
• Within living memory

Religious education:

• Autumn festivals
• Bible stories
• Christianity
• Christmas
• Diwali
• Hinduism
• Harvest
• Islam
• Judaism
• New Testament Stories
• People in Christianity
• Places in Christianity
• Sikhism
• Winter festivals

Maths and numbers:

• Numbers and counting
• Maths games and puzzles

PSHE:

• Healthy eating
• Keeping healthy
• People who help us

Other:

• Dragons
• Playgrounds
• Puppets
• Seaside cross curriculum
• Superheroes
• Toys

Wellbeing:

• Empathy Lab Collection
• Reading well for children collection

Literacy:

• All join in - stories, rhymes and plays to read aloud
• Classroom collections - 6 copies of 4 popular children's picture book titles
• Explanation texts
• Fairy tales
• Fantasy worlds
• Information texts
• Instructions
• Level 1 reading book collection
• Poems to perform for Year 2
• Rhymes and poems for Year 1
• Story box collection – a collection of popular picture books and stories suitable for KS1
• Traditional tales for Year 2 

Carnegie Greenaway:

• Greenaway collection 2021 (past years may be available- please enquire)

Author and illustrator collections:

• Anthony Browne collection
• Beatrix Potter collection
• Elmer by David McKee collection
• Emily Gravett collection
• Eric Carle collection
• Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon collection
• Julia Donaldson collection
• Lauren Child collection
• Local Northamptonshire illustrators collection
• Mick Inkpen collection
• Oliver Jeffers collection
• Paddington Bear by Michael Bond collection
• Quentin Blake collection
• Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake collection
• Sue Hendra collection

Dyslexia collections: We have many books suitable- please specify what ability and age and we will put together a selection of up to 20 titles.

Our lower Key Stage 2 projects are designed to support teachers and pupils in year 3 and 4 studying the National Curriculum. We have an array of pre-packed projects available on popular topics, with some specifically for year 3, some specifically for year 4, and many that cross the year groups. If there is a topic you want to teach that isn't listed, we can make up a box to suit your requirements.

Religious education:

• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Judaism
• Life of Jesus
• Sikhism
• Stories of Faith

History:

• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Greece
• Anglo Saxons
• Castles
• Crime and punishment
• Indus Valley
• Invaders and settlers
• Kings and Queens
• Mayans
• Medieval plague
• Romans in Britain
• Stone Age to Iron Age
• Titanic
• Tudor times
• Victorian times
• Vikings
• World War 1
• World War 2 

Maths and number:

• Maths, games and puzzles

Science and nature

• Active planet
• Animals including Humans
• Cooking and nutrition
• Dinosaurs
• Eating and diet
• Electricity
• Forces and magnets
• Inventors and inventions
• Light
• Living things and their habitats
• Nutrition and diet
• Plants
• Robots
• Skeletons and muscles
• Sound
• Space
• States of matter
• Teeth and digestion 

Geography:

• Africa
• Around the world
• Biomes and climate zones
• Brazil
• China
• Europe
• Explorers
• Extreme survivor
• Food and farming
• France
• Geographical features
• India
• Italy
• Kenya
• London
• Maps and mapping
• Mexico
• Mountains and volcanoes
• North America
• Polar lands
• Pollution and recycling
• Rainforests
• Rocks
• Settlements
• South America
• United Kingdom
• Water cycle

Other:

• Explanation texts
• Greek myths
• Information texts
• Instructions
• Letters and diaries
• Myths and legends
• Superheroes

Wellbeing:

• Empathy Lab collection 2021
• Reading well for children collection

Literature:

• Adventure and mystery
• Doctor Who
• Dragon stories
• Fantasy worlds
• Historical fiction
• Ribtickling reads
• Poems and play scripts
• Poetic form
• Tales around the world

Authors and Illustrators:

• David Walliams collection
• Eoin Colfer collection
• Harry Potter collection
• Jeremy Strong collection
• Local Northamptonshire illustrators collection
• Michael Morpurgo collection

Carnegie Greenaway:

• Greenaway Collection 2021 (past years may be available - please enquire)

Our upper Key Stage 2 projects are designed to support teachers and pupils in years 5 and 6 studying the National Curriculum. Some are designed with a specific year group in mind, and other cross year groups. If there is a topic you want to teach that isn't listed, we can make up a box to suit your requirements.

Religious education:

• Buddhism
• Celebrating diversity
• Christianity
• Creation stories
• Faith through the Arts
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Judaism
• Religions in our community
• Sikhism

History:

• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Greece
• Anglo Saxons
• Aztecs
• Castles
• Celts
• Crime and punishment
• Explorers
• Indus valley
• Industrial revolution
• Mayans
• Medieval plague
• Monarchs
• Normans
• Romans in Britain
• Shang dynasty
• Stone Age to Iron Age
• Tudor monarchs
• Tudor times
• Victorian times
• Vikings
• World War One
• World War Two

Science:

• Circulation and growth
• Classification Year 6
• Earth and space Year 5
• Electricity Year 6
• Evolution and inheritance Year 6
• Forces Year 5
• Human body
• Human circulation Year 6
• Human growth Year 5
• Light Year 6
• Materials and change Year 5
• Nutrition and cooking

Geography:

• Africa
• Benin
• Biomes and climate zones
• Brazil
• China
• Europe
• Extreme survivor
• France
• Geographical features
• Living things and their habitats
• London
• Maps and mapping
• Mexico
• Natural disasters
• North America
• Polar lands
• Rainforests
• Settlements
• South America
• United Kingdom
• Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Water cycle

Other:

• Dragons
• Fairgrounds
• Explanation texts
• Instructions
• Inventors and inventions
• Letters and diaries
• Musical instruments
• Out of this world
• Peace

Maths and number:

• Maths games and puzzles

Wellbeing Collections:

• Empathy Lab collection 2021
• Reading well for children collection

Author and illustrator collections:

• Anthony Horowitz collection
• David Walliams collection
• Eoin Colfer collection
• Harry Potter collection
• Local Northamptonshire illustrators collection
• Michael Morpurgo collection
• Roald Dahl collection
• Shakespeare

Literature:

• Adventure and mystery
• Children’s classics
• Doctor Who
• Fantasy worlds
• Flashbacks
• Greek myths
• It's a goal!
• Myths and legends
• Poems and play scripts
• poetry
• Ribtickling reads
• Science fiction stories
• Tales around the world

Chatterbooks collections - Alien invasion: Other worlds other beings, Amazing animals, Best friend’s forever, Chocolates, Sweets and other treats, Classics, Fantastical creatures, Fireside fiction, Funny fiction, Furry friends, The great outdoors, Green is best, Illustrations, Inspiring art, Inventions and discoveries, Kick off: Football action, Little gems, Making music, Pet favourites, Pirates and perils of the deep, Spies and crime-busters, Spine-tinglers!, Stories from around the world, Witches and wizards, Wonderful non-fiction

Dyslexia collections: We have many books suitable- please specify what ability and age and we will put together a selection of up to 20 titles

Carnegie Greenaway:

• Greenaway Collection 2021 (past years may be available - please enquire)

We can put together Key Stage 3 project boxes for schools on request from our wide range of young adult fiction and non-fiction. Previous requests have included the EU, black history and sustainability.

National Curriculum Project collections:

• Black peoples of the Americas
• Britain since World War 2
• Crime scene investigations
• Crown and Empire 1745-1901
• Crown and Parliament 1507-1745
• Earthquakes and volcanoes
• Indigenous people of the Americas
• Medieval Britain 1066-1507
• Natural disasters
• Nutrition and digestion
• Reproduction
• Rocks and earth
• Shakespeare life and theatre
• Skeletal and muscular systems
• Solar system
• Sustainable environments
• Tudors
• Victorians
• World War 1
• World War 2

Wellbeing collections

• Empathy Lab collection
• Reading well for young people collection

Illustrator collections

• Local Northamptonshire illustrators collection

Chatterbooks collections:
Banned books, Classics, Facts and information, Funny fiction, Great outdoors, Inspiring art, Poetry, Shakespeare week, Superheroes, Comics and cartoons, Thrills, Adventures, Spies and detectives, Spies and thrillers, Stories from around the world, Time travellers, World War One

Carnegie Greenaway:

• Greenaway collection 2021 (past years may be available - please enquire)
• Carnegie Medal collection 2021 (past years may be available - please enquire)

Literature collections:

• Adventure stories
• Detective stories
• Doctor Who
• Eoin Colfer collection
• English literature post 1914
• English literature pre 1914
• Fantasy stories
• Historical fiction
• Poetry
• World literature

Dyslexia collections:

We have many books suitable- please specify what ability and age and we will put together a selection of up to 20 titles

Learning Resources for Education can support schools using other curriculums. We have prepacked boxes for Edison, Cornerstones and IPC, and can support other curriculums too. Let us know what you are planning to teach, age groups and abilities, and we will put together projects boxes to support your topic from our resources.

Cornerstones:

• Alchemy island
• Allotment
• Beachcombers Year 2
• Beast creator Year 5
• Beat band boogie Year 2
• Blue abyss Year 4
• Bounce Year 2
• Bright lights big city Year 1
• Burps, bottoms and bile Year 4
• Dinosaur planet Year 1
• Fallen fields Year 5-6
• Flow Year 3
• Frozen kingdom Year 6
• Gallery rebels Year 6
• Gods and mortals Year 3
• Hola Mexico! Year 6
• ID Year 6
• Land ahoy! Year 2
• Memory box Year 1
• Mighty metals Year 3
• Misty mountain sierra Year 4
• Moon zoom Year 1
• Muck mess and mixtures Year 2
• Paws claws and whiskers Year 1
• Potions Year 4
• Predator Year 3
• Revolution! Year 6
• Rio da vida Year 1
• Road trip USA Year 4
• Scented garden Year 2
• Scream machine Year 5
• Scrumdiddlyumptious Year 3
• Splendid skies Year 1
• Street detectives Year 2
• Time traveller Year 5
• Tomorrow's world Year 6
• Towers tunnels and turrets Year 2
• Traders and raiders Year 4
• Wriggle and crawl Year 2 

Edison:

• Aliens are coming Year 1 - 2
• Audio visual Year 3 - 4
• Bright sparks Year 3 - 4
• From a railway carriage Year 4
• Games children play Year 3 - 4
• Has there been a better time to live? Year 5 - 6
• Hello I'm new here Year 1
• Highwayman Year 5 - 6
• Lady of Shallot Year 5 - 6
• Mrs Armitages vehicles Year 1 - 2
• Mysterious materials Year 5 - 6
• Out of this world Year 5
• Owl and the Pussycat Year 1 - 2
• Party planners Year 1 - 2
• Starry night van Gogh Year 1 - 2
• Who were the greatest builders? Year 3 - 4
• Why do we speak English? Year 3 - 4

IPC:

• Active planet Year 3 - 4
• Brainiacs Year 3 - 4
• Chocolate year 4