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A transparent look at exactly what your child works towards in the primary years. Each unit lists the specific learning outcomes: what a child will be able to do by the end of it.

💪Durable Skills🔢Math🔬Science📖ELA💻Computational Thinking
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Durable Skills

We teach these durable skills explicitly, and children practise them inside every project too. See how durable skills are practised within projects →

💗Social Emotional Learning

  • Understand the unhelpful ways of responding to someone who is sad.
  • Practise TFE (Thought, Feeling, Empathy).
  • Explore the Inquiry technique.
  • Understand why “disarming” helps when faced with unfair criticism, verbal bullying, or overly judgmental / pushy behaviour from parents, teachers, or relatives.
  • Practise communicating through difficult situations with empathy and assertiveness.

🎓Learning How to Learn

  • Understand how to choose the right goal for building a habit.
  • Practise making a habit stick using tiny habits.
  • Notice sensory triggers and reduce the external distractions in their workspace.
  • Reflect on their own behaviours to spot the good and bad habits they may be reinforcing daily.
  • Try the Pomodoro technique and reflect on how it helps tackle boredom, confusion, and emotional resistance to tasks.
  • Practise using mindfulness to gently redirect a wandering mind.
  • Build a personalised plan to manage internal distractions by spotting the triggers and patterns of their urges, and using deep breathing and scheduled “play time” as proactive responses.
  • Work towards long-term focus by accepting that distractions are natural and using a “self-compassionate reset”: empathy and a recovery plan to return to tasks without self-judgment.
  • Try the “Link Method”.
  • Explore the Memory Palace technique.
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Math

📐Geometry (Angles)

  • Identify common angles like 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, and classify angles as right, acute, and obtuse.
  • Measure and sketch angles with a protractor.
  • Calculate complementary and supplementary angles.
  • Solve word problems involving angles.

🔺Geometry (2D Shapes)

  • Identify and classify triangles (right, isosceles, equilateral).
  • Identify and differentiate common 2D figures by angles, side-lengths, and parallel lines.
  • Recognise lines of symmetry in 2D figures.

➕Arithmetic: Addition & Subtraction

  • Read and write multi-digit numbers in standard, word, and expanded form.
  • Explain that each digit is 10× the value of the digit to its right and 1/10 of the digit to its left.
  • Add and subtract multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.
  • Add and subtract efficiently using properties like commutative, associative, breaking numbers, multiples of 10, and counting up/down.

✖️Arithmetic: Multiplication & Division

  • Multiply up to 4-digit × 1-digit using the algorithm, area model, etc.
  • Multiply efficiently using properties like doubling, skip counting, associative, and distributive.
  • Divide up to 4-digit ÷ 1-digit, finding quotients and remainders using place value.
  • Solve multi-step word problems of add/sub/mul/div using equations with unknowns.
  • Multiply two 2-digit numbers using the place-value and algorithm methods.
  • Use BODMAS/PEMDAS for order of operations.
  • Verify calculations using inverse operations (mul ↔ div; add ↔ sub).
  • Verify calculations using estimation and rounding.

🍕Fractions - Foundation

  • Relate fractions to real objects (x/y means y “equal” pieces, then take x of them).
  • Mark fractions on a number line.
  • Compare fractions using models and the number line.
  • Find an equivalent fraction of a given fraction.
  • Add and subtract like fractions.
  • Multiply a fraction by a whole number and by another fraction.

🧮Fractions - Improper and Mixed

  • Simplify a given fraction.
  • Convert a mixed number to an improper fraction.
  • Convert an improper fraction to a mixed number.
  • Compare unlike fractions.
  • Express a fraction (a/b, where a > 1) as a sum of unit fractions (1/b).
  • Add and subtract unlike fractions.
  • Add and subtract mixed fractions.
  • Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions (unlike and mixed).

📏Measurement

  • Convert common units (km–m–cm; kg–g; l–ml; hr–min–sec).
  • Solve real-world problems about distance, time, volume, mass, and money.

📦2D Mensuration

  • Calculate area for rectangles and composite rectangles.
  • Calculate perimeter for triangles, rectangles, and composite shapes.
  • Solve word problems involving area and perimeter of rectangles.
  • Understand and calculate the volume of a cube and rectangular prism.
  • Compute the surface area of a rectangular prism and composite figures.
  • Solve word problems of surface area and volume.

📍Coordinate Geometry

  • Plot points, lines, and shapes on the coordinate plane.
  • Solve problems like distances between two points and their midpoints.

📊Data

  • Interpret and plot data in various graphs.

🔟Decimals - Foundation

  • Show decimals up to the hundredths place on a number line.
  • Compare and order decimals up to the hundredths place.
  • Convert fractions with denominator 100 to decimals and vice versa.
  • Convert fractions to decimal notation.

💯Decimals - Operations

  • Add a decimal with a whole number and with another decimal.
  • Subtract a decimal with a whole number and with another decimal.
  • Multiply a decimal with a whole number.
  • Divide two whole numbers to get a decimal quotient.
  • Solve multi-digit computation and word problems involving decimals.
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Science

⚛️Chemistry: Atoms & Molecules

  • Differentiate states of matter based on their particle arrangement.
  • Explain the change of state using the concepts of particle attraction and particle motion.
  • Know that like charges repel whereas unlike charges attract.
  • Differentiate between two different atoms by counting the number of protons.
  • Distinguish between elements, compounds, and molecules.

🧫Biology: Cell Theory

  • Understand cell theory: all living things are made of cells, all cells come from pre-existing cells, and cells are the fundamental unit of life.
  • Explain the structure and functions of the cell membrane, cytoplasm, and mitochondria.
  • Explain the functions of organelles such as the nucleus and lysosome.
  • Differentiate between animal, plant, and bacterial cells.

🌍Biology: Ecosystem

  • Identify population, community, and ecosystem, knowing the meaning of each.
  • Draw a food chain in an ecosystem and explain how energy transfers through it.
  • Understand some of the causes of a dying ecosystem.

🪐Physics: Space

  • Describe how the universe began.
  • Describe the process of star formation.
  • Identify the widely accepted theory of moon formation.
  • Explain the meaning of an eclipse.
  • Describe how scientists proved the Sun is the centre of the solar system.
  • Identify that the reason for different seasons on Earth is its tilt.
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ELA

📚Literature Reading Skills (Grade 5)

  • Quote from a text to explain what it says and to support inferences.
  • Find the theme of a story, drama, or poem, and summarise it.
  • Compare and contrast characters, settings, or events using details from the text.
  • Explain how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view shapes how events are described.

📰Reading Informational Text (Grade 5)

  • Quote from a text to explain what it says and to support inferences.
  • Find two or more main ideas and explain how key details support them; summarise the text.
  • Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support each point.

✍️Writing Skills (Grade 5)

  • Write opinion pieces with a clear opinion, ordered reasons, and a conclusion.
  • Write informative texts that introduce a topic, develop it with facts and details, and use precise vocabulary.
  • Produce clear, coherent writing suited to the task, purpose, and audience.
  • Plan, revise, and edit to strengthen their writing.

🗣️Speaking & Listening

  • Take part in group discussions: come prepared, build on others’ ideas, and ask and answer questions.
  • Summarise a speaker’s points and explain how evidence supports each claim.
  • Present ideas in a logical order with relevant facts and details, speaking clearly.
  • Adapt how they speak to the situation, using formal English when needed.

🔤Grammar

  • Use conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections correctly.
  • Form and use the perfect verb tenses (e.g., I had walked, I have walked, I will have walked).
  • Use verb tenses correctly and fix incorrect shifts in tense.
  • Use correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor).
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Computational Thinking

🧩Algorithms

  • Identify multiple possible algorithms for solving a problem.

🔁Loops

  • Create programs using repeat loops.

🐛Debugging

  • Use the process of debugging to identify bugs in a program and make it run as intended.

🔄Nested Repeat

  • Identify larger repeating patterns made up of smaller repeating patterns and write appropriate programs using nested repeat loops.

⚡Events

  • Create and use events in their program.

🔀Conditionals

  • Identify the need for conditionals (“if” and “if-else”) and use them appropriately in their programs.

📦Variables

  • Create variables, store information in them, and call them appropriately in their programs.

🎲Random Integers

  • Use random integers in their project and make the program choose a house randomly.

These outcomes are the academic backbone, but they're taught through real projects, with mastery tracked per child and turned into feedback your child can act on. See how the curriculum works and how we assess progress.

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