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The Christian year

• All Saints and All Souls
• Halloween: where it came from
• Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead)
• Undas in the Philippines
• Reformation Day
• St Francis and the animals
• Advent
• St Nicholas Day
• St Lucia Day
• Nine nights before Christmas: Las Posadas and Simbang Gabi
• Christmas around the world
• Ethiopian and Orthodox Christmas
• Epiphany and the Three Kings
• Candlemas: the Presentation of Jesus
• St Valentine
• Shrove Tuesday and Carnival
• Ash Wednesday
• Lent
• Palm Sunday
• Holy Week
• Easter
• Pascha: Easter in the Orthodox Churches
• St Patrick
• The Annunciation
• Ascension
• Pentecost

Language

• Talking all day long (0–2)
• First words in three languages (0–2)
• Rhymes and finger plays (0–2)
• Sharing a picture book (0–2)
• Naming body parts (0–2)
• Colours everywhere (0–2)
• Sounds at the start of words (3–5)
• Writing my name (3–5)
• Rhymes and silly words (3–5)
• Telling a story with pictures (3–5)
• Letters I know (3–5)
• Listening to a longer story (3–5)
• Words in two languages (3–5)
• A thank-you card (3–5)
• Telling a Bible story with puppets (3–5)
• Ending sounds (3–5)
• Making a mini-book (3–5)
• Writing a list (3–5)
• Clapping syllables (6–8)
• Writing a sentence (6–8)
• Describing words (6–8)
• Reading aloud with expression (6–8)
• Compound words (6–8)
• Writing a letter (6–8)
• Poems that rhyme (6–8)
• A story with a beginning, middle and end (6–8)
• One idea in each paragraph (9–12)
• Writing to persuade (9–12)
• Reading between the lines (9–12)
• Translating: what changes and what stays (9–12)
• Using quotations (9–12)
• Writing a summary (9–12)
• Simile and metaphor (9–12)
• Writing a news report (9–12)
• Argument: claim, evidence and counterargument (13–17)
• Reading a primary source (13–17)
• The personal essay: voice and structure (13–17)
• Learning a language well (13–17)
• Rhetoric: ethos, pathos and logos (13–17)
• Reading poetry closely (13–17)
• A research paper with citations (13–17)
• Reading Scripture well: genre and context (13–17)

Math

• Counting what you touch (0–2)
• Big, small, more, all gone (0–2)
• Shapes at home (0–2)
• One, two, many (0–2)
• Counting to twenty (3–5)
• Patterns everywhere (3–5)
• Sorting and comparing (3–5)
• Measuring with hands and spoons (3–5)
• More and fewer (3–5)
• Putting together (3–5)
• Taking away (3–5)
• Sides and corners (3–5)
• Odd and even (3–5)
• Halves and quarters (3–5)
• Before, after and in between (3–5)
• Play shop with coins (3–5)
• Tens and ones (6–8)
• Adding and taking away to twenty (6–8)
• Telling the time (6–8)
• Coins and notes (6–8)
• Shapes and symmetry (6–8)
• Multiplying by 2, 5 and 10 (6–8)
• Measuring length (6–8)
• Reading a bar chart (6–8)
• Multiplication patterns (9–12)
• Fractions as parts of a whole (9–12)
• Area and perimeter (9–12)
• Decimals and measuring (9–12)
• Percentages (9–12)
• Angles and triangles (9–12)
• The mean and the median (9–12)
• Negative numbers (9–12)
• Ratios, rates and percentages (13–17)
• Solving linear equations (13–17)
• Probability and chance (13–17)
• Reading graphs critically (13–17)
• Functions and graphs (13–17)
• Sampling and bias (13–17)
• Geometry and proof (13–17)
• Compound interest and exponential growth (13–17)

Science

• Water play (0–2)
• Light and shadow (0–2)
• What floats? (0–2)
• Outside with all the senses (0–2)
• Wind and leaves (0–2)
• A seed grows (3–5)
• Weather watching (3–5)
• Our five senses (3–5)
• Animals and their homes (3–5)
• Day and night (3–5)
• The moon changes (3–5)
• Magnets (3–5)
• Hot, warm and cold (3–5)
• Rain and puddles (3–5)
• Bugs in the garden (3–5)
• The sun and shadows (3–5)
• Life cycles (6–8)
• Solids, liquids and gases (6–8)
• The water cycle (6–8)
• Sound and vibration (6–8)
• Habitats (6–8)
• Rocks and soil (6–8)
• Parts of a plant (6–8)
• Our five senses (6–8)
• Food chains and webs (9–12)
• Forces: gravity and friction (9–12)
• Volcanoes and earthquakes (9–12)
• Light and colour (9–12)
• How we digest food (9–12)
• The solar system (9–12)
• Mixtures and separating them (9–12)
• Cells and heredity (13–17)
• Atoms and the periodic table (13–17)
• Energy: where it comes from and where it goes (13–17)
• Designing a fair experiment (13–17)
• Science and faith: how Christians think about big questions (13–17)
• Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum (13–17)
• Ecosystems and biodiversity (13–17)

Making and Technology

• Push, pull and roll (0–2)
• Stacking and building (0–2)
• Opening and closing (0–2)
• Ramps and levers (3–5)
• Building a bridge (3–5)
• Tools and who uses them (3–5)
• Following steps (3–5)
• Wheels and axles (3–5)
• Boats that float (3–5)
• Strong triangles (3–5)
• What makes it go? (3–5)
• A lever toy (3–5)
• Sorting rubbish into groups (3–5)
• A simple circuit (6–8)
• Sorting step by step (6–8)
• Finding and fixing mistakes (6–8)
• Machines from recycled things (6–8)
• Levers and pulleys (6–8)
• Bridges that hold (6–8)
• Following a flowchart (6–8)
• Design, build, test (6–8)
• Programming with loops and choices (9–12)
• Binary: counting with two digits (9–12)
• How messages travel on the internet (9–12)
• Variables in a program (9–12)
• Debugging (9–12)
• How a computer stores a picture (9–12)
• How AI language models work, and where they fail (13–17)
• Your data and who has it (13–17)
• Making a simple web page (13–17)
• Algorithms and efficiency (13–17)
• Ethics of technology (13–17)

History

• My family's story (0–2)
• Old things and new things (0–2)
• Grandparents' stories (0–2)
• When I was a baby (3–5)
• Helpers long ago (3–5)
• Houses long ago (3–5)
• Old and new (3–5)
• Farmers long ago and now (3–5)
• How people travelled (3–5)
• People who helped others (3–5)
• A family timeline (3–5)
• A child's day long ago (3–5)
• Things in a museum (3–5)
• Heroes in the Bible and in our town (3–5)
• Our flag and our holidays (3–5)
• How writing began (6–8)
• The Nile and ancient Egypt (6–8)
• The first Christians (6–8)
• Trade routes: spices and ships (6–8)
• Mesopotamia and the wheel (6–8)
• Ancient Greece: city and country (6–8)
• Paul's journeys (6–8)
• Life in a medieval village (6–8)
• Ideas from Greece and Rome (9–12)
• The House of Wisdom and the medieval world (9–12)
• The Philippines before and after 1521 (9–12)
• Printing and the Bible in many languages (9–12)
• The Reformation: print and Scripture (9–12)
• Aksum and the Ethiopian church (9–12)
• The Maya, Aztec and Inca (9–12)
• Sources and bias (9–12)
• The Industrial Revolution and its costs (13–17)
• Empires ending: independence movements (13–17)
• Nonviolent movements: Gandhi, King and People Power (13–17)
• War, human dignity and memory (13–17)
• The early councils and the creeds (13–17)
• The Philippine Revolution and 1898 (13–17)
• The Atlantic slave trade and abolition (13–17)
• The Cold War (13–17)

The World and Its Peoples

• The same sky everywhere (0–2)
• Animals of the world (0–2)
• Hello around the world (0–2)
• A walk around the neighbourhood (0–2)
• A map of my room (3–5)
• Homes around the world (3–5)
• Foods around the world (3–5)
• Land, water and sky (3–5)
• Seven continents and five oceans (3–5)
• Our neighbourhood map (3–5)
• Seasons around the world (3–5)
• Languages of the world (3–5)
• Mountains and valleys (3–5)
• Deserts and rain (3–5)
• Weather around the world (3–5)
• Maps with a key and a compass (6–8)
• Rivers, mountains and deserts (6–8)
• Rainforests (6–8)
• Neighbours and cultures (6–8)
• Continents and countries (6–8)
• Islands and archipelagos (6–8)
• Cities and villages (6–8)
• Food from around the world (6–8)
• Latitude and longitude (9–12)
• Where people live (9–12)
• Climate zones and biomes (9–12)
• Fresh water for everyone (9–12)
• Map scale (9–12)
• Time zones (9–12)
• Why people move (9–12)
• Natural resources and sharing them (9–12)
• Migration and refugees (13–17)
• Climate change: causes and responses (13–17)
• Trade and the things we buy (13–17)
• Cities and sustainability (13–17)
• Water and conflict (13–17)
• Population and ageing (13–17)
• Globalisation and culture (13–17)
• Disasters and resilience (13–17)

Arts and Music

• Shake, tap, clap (0–2)
• Big scribbles (0–2)
• Lullabies from many places (0–2)
• Dancing together (0–2)
• Mixing colours (3–5)
• Making a rhythm (3–5)
• Shapes in dough (3–5)
• Drawing a feeling (3–5)
• Collage with natural things (3–5)
• A song with actions (3–5)
• Printing with shapes (3–5)
• Dance like animals (3–5)
• Clay animals (3–5)
• Bird songs (3–5)
• Lines and dots (3–5)
• A puppet theatre (3–5)
• Near and far in a drawing (6–8)
• Reading rhythms (6–8)
• Weaving paper (6–8)
• Singing in a round (6–8)
• Mixing colours (6–8)
• Drumming patterns (6–8)
• Pots from clay (6–8)
• Portraits of family (6–8)
• Warm and cool colours (9–12)
• Writing a simple melody (9–12)
• Printmaking with foam (9–12)
• A Bible story as a short play (9–12)
• Perspective drawing (9–12)
• Reading simple music notation (9–12)
• Weaving and textile traditions (9–12)
• Harmony in a choir (9–12)
• Photography: light and composition (13–17)
• Songwriting: words and structure (13–17)
• Design: type, layout and meaning (13–17)
• Telling a story on film (13–17)
• Reading a painting (13–17)
• Music and meaning (13–17)
• Architecture and sacred space (13–17)
• Giving and receiving critique (13–17)

Life Skills and Wellbeing

• Naming feelings (0–2)
• Gentle hands (0–2)
• Rhythms of bath, meals and bedtime (0–2)
• Helping at home (0–2)
• Hello and goodbye (0–2)
• Washing hands well (3–5)
• Taking turns (3–5)
• Feeling brave (3–5)
• Looking after the earth (3–5)
• Eating a rainbow (3–5)
• Saying sorry and forgiving (3–5)
• Please and thank you (3–5)
• Tidying up together (3–5)
• Save, spend and give (6–8)
• Being a good friend (6–8)
• Time and routines (6–8)
• Telling the truth (6–8)
• Helping at home and church (6–8)
• Friends and choices (9–12)
• Disagreeing and forgiving (9–12)
• Budgeting pocket money (9–12)
• Doubt, prayer and community (13–17)
• Finding purpose: choosing what to do (13–17)
• Work, vocation and service (13–17)