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English // Reading Comprehension
Recommending BooksRecommend books to peers, giving reasons for choices based on knowledge of a wide range of genres, authors, and themes, and making comparisons within and across…
Ages 9 to 10Thinking skillEnglish // Reading Comprehension
Wide Independent Reading Across GenresRead widely and independently across fiction and non-fiction — including whole novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and non-fiction from different genres…
Ages 11 to 14Thinking skillEnglish // Writing Composition
Choosing Form and Tone for Your AudienceIdentify the audience for and purpose of writing before beginning, selecting the appropriate form, tone, and register to match the intended reader and…
Ages 9 to 10Thinking skillEnglish // Writing Composition
Writing for an audienceProduce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organisation are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience, maintaining a consistent style…
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillEnglish // Writing Composition
Planning NarrativesPlan narrative writing by considering how authors have developed characters and settings, drawing on techniques observed in texts read, heard, or performed
Ages 10 to 11Thinking skillEnglish // Writing Composition
Planning, Revising and Editing WritingPlan, revise, and edit writing to improve coherence and effectiveness — considering how the writing reflects its intended audience and purpose, amending…
Ages 11 to 14Thinking skillScience // Dinosaurs & Paleontology
Changing Scientific KnowledgeEvaluate competing scientific explanations about dinosaurs by weighing fossil evidence — understanding that scientific knowledge changes as new fossils are…
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillScience // Ocean Life
Exploring the OceanKnow that oceanographers and marine biologists study the ocean using submarines, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), satellites, and diving, and that much of the…
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillScience // Scientific Inquiry
Correlation vs CausationTwo things happening together doesn't mean one caused the other — recognise the difference between correlation and causation before drawing conclusions
Ages 8 to 10Thinking skillScience // Scientific Inquiry
Evidence Supporting IdeasIdentify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments, evaluating the strength of evidence
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillScience // Scientific Inquiry
Drawing conclusions from evidence (age 9+)Report and present findings including conclusions, causal relationships, explanations, and a degree of trust in results using oral and written forms
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillScience // Scientific Inquiry
Controlling variablesPlan different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, recognising and controlling variables where necessary
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillScience // Scientific Inquiry
Fair testing (age 9+)Use test results to make predictions and set up further comparative and fair tests to investigate new questions
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillScience // Scientific Inquiry
Science Can Be RevisedScientific knowledge is provisional — it is the best current explanation based on available evidence, and it can and should be revised when better evidence…
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillScience // Scientific Inquiry
Controlling variables (age 11+)Form a testable scientific hypothesis linking an independent variable to a predicted outcome, plan a full investigation identifying independent, dependent, and…
Ages 11 to 12Thinking skillScience // Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Monitoring VolcanoesUnderstand how volcanologists monitor volcanoes by looking for warning signs — gas emissions, ground swelling, small earthquakes — and that prediction involves…
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillHistory // Ancient Egypt
Modern Archaeology and Egyptian EthicsUnderstand that modern Egyptologists use advanced technologies — CT scanning of mummies, satellite imagery to find buried structures, DNA analysis — alongside…
Ages 10 to 12Thinking skillHistory // Ancient Egypt
Historical Sources on Ancient EgyptExplain how knowledge of ancient Egypt is built from multiple source types — inscriptions, papyri, artefacts, and physical remains — and critically evaluate…
Ages 11 to 13Thinking skillHistory // Ancient Greece & Rome
Evidence for Greek and Roman LifeUnderstand that historians and archaeologists piece together ancient Greek and Roman life from evidence — pottery paintings, coins, inscriptions, ruins like…
Ages 9 to 11Thinking skillHistory // Ancient Greece & Rome
Hidden Voices of Greece and RomeExamine the lives of people usually left out of the Greek and Roman story — enslaved people who made up roughly 30% of Athens and powered Rome's economy, women…
Ages 11 to 13Thinking skillHistory // Historical Thinking
Checking Sources Against Each OtherCorroborate: check whether multiple sources agree on the same facts — and investigate why they might not
Ages 8 to 10Thinking skillHistory // Historical Thinking
Questioning Historical SourcesBefore trusting a historical source, ask: who made this, when, and why? — the answers shape how much weight the source should carry
Ages 8 to 10Thinking skillHistory // Historical Thinking
Understanding People in Their Own TimeUnderstand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values
Ages 8 to 10Thinking skillHistory // Historical Thinking
Evidence Versus InterpretationDistinguish between historical evidence and historical interpretation — evidence is what survived, interpretation is the argument a historian builds from it…
Ages 10 to 11Thinking skill