Topic boxes
We tailor each box to your requirements, mixing subjects to support classroom learning and reading for pleasure.
How it works
Boxes are tailor‑made to your needs. You can mix and match subjects, including:
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Reading lists
Our reading lists cover key stage 1 and 2.
Key stage 1
Topics include:
- Bible stories
- Colour
- Feelings and emotions
- Ourselves
- People who help us
- Schools
- Seaside holidays
- Seasons
- Superheroes
- Transport
Key stage 2
Topics include:
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Sumer (limited range of titles)
- Anglo‑Saxons
- Benin (limited range of titles
- Britain since 1930
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- History of crime and punishment
- Digestion
- Europe
- Evolution and inheritance
- Human body
- Indus Valley
- Islamic civilisation (limited range of titles)
- Mayan civilisation
- Medicine through the ages
- Natural disasters
- North and South America
- Rocks and fossils
- Roman Empire
- Shang Dynasty of Ancient China (limited range of titles)
- States of matter
- Stone Age
- Volcanoes
- World War 1
Key stage 1 and 2
Topics include:
- Air
- Africa
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Romans
- Animals
- Animal habitats
- Animals including humans
- Art or artists
- Aztecs
- Buildings
- Castles
- Clothes
- Coasts
- Conservation and recycling
- Continents
- Countries
- Crafts and drawing
- Design and technology
- Dinosaurs
- Earth and space
- Electricity
- Environment
- Exploration
- Farming
- Festivals and celebrations
- Food
- Food chains
- Forces
- Habitats
- Healthy body, healthy mind
- Houses and homes
- India
- Inventions
- Life cycles
- Light
- Living things and their habitats
- London machines
- Magnets
- Map skills and atlases
- Materials
- Mini‑beasts
- Mountains
- Myths and legends
- Pets
- Plants and trees
- Poetry and rhymes
- Polar regions
- Rainforests
- Rivers
- Sculpture
- Seaside
- Senses
- Settlements
- Significant people
- Sound
- Space and the solar system
- Teeth and healthy eating
- Toys
- Traditional tales
- Tudors
- Victorians
- Vikings
- Water
- Weather
- World religions
- World War 2
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