Topic boxes

Our topic boxes support the National Curriculum and are delivered directly to your school.

How it works

Boxes are tailor-made to your requirements. Subjects can be mixed and matched including those from our:

  • reading for pleasure
  • play-sets
  • guided reading lists

How to order a topic box

To order a box you can either:

  • email the Library Services for Schools team
  • order online

Order a box online

Library Services for Schools team
Email: library.servicesforschools@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

Reading lists

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
  • Iron Age & Bronze Age
  • 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)
  • 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