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History // Medieval Times
The Medieval Church
The enormous power of the medieval Church: monasteries and the daily life of monks and nuns; building great cathedrals; pilgrimage as a religious journey; the…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
History // Medieval Times
The Crusades
A simplified account of the Crusades: why Europeans travelled to the Holy Land, what they found there, the cultural exchange between Christian Europe and the…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
History // Medieval Times
Castle Design Through the Ages
How castles were built and evolved: from wooden motte-and-bailey to stone keeps to concentric castles; rooms and their uses; how castle design responded to new…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
History // Medieval Times
Anglo-Saxon Britain
Who the Anglo-Saxons were: Germanic peoples who settled in Britain after the Romans left; their kingdoms, villages, place names, art, and eventual conversion to…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
History // Medieval Times
Siege Warfare
How castles were attacked and defended: siege weapons (trebuchets, battering rams, siege towers), boiling liquids, arrow slits, murder holes; the drama of a…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
History // Medieval Times
The Black Death
The Black Death of 1348-49: what the plague was, how it spread, its devastating death toll; how it changed society by giving surviving workers more power and…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
History // Medieval Times
Vikings vs Anglo-Saxons
The conflict between Vikings and Anglo-Saxons for control of England: Viking raids, Alfred the Great's resistance, the Danelaw, Athelstan as first king of all…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Computers in Everyday Life
Identifying computers in everyday life — not just laptops but phones, tablets, smart speakers, traffic lights, washing machines; what makes something a computer
Ages 5 to 7Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
AI in Daily Life
Spotting AI in daily life: face unlock on a phone, video recommendations, spelling auto-correct, automatic doors that detect people; technology that seems to…
Ages 5 to 7Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Voice Assistants and How They Work
What happens when you talk to Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant; they listen, try to understand, look up answers; sometimes they get it wrong; they are tools…
Ages 5 to 7Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Smart Versus Not-Smart Devices
Sorting objects into 'smart' (can sense and respond) and 'not smart' (just sits there); a toaster vs a smart speaker; introduction to the idea that some…
Ages 5 to 7Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Step-by-Step Instructions
Step-by-step instructions for everyday tasks (making a sandwich, brushing teeth); that if instructions are wrong or missing, things go wrong; computers follow…
Ages 5 to 7Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Real-World Robots
What a robot really is — not the sci-fi version; robots in factories, robot vacuum cleaners, robot arms in surgery; that robots follow instructions given by…
Ages 5 to 7Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Data and Information for Computers
What data is: information that computers use — numbers, words, pictures, sounds; everything a computer knows comes from data that people give it
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Patterns and Classification
Humans are great at spotting patterns; computers can learn to spot patterns too, but they need lots of examples; sorting and classification activities as the…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning Basics
How machine learning works at a conceptual level: show the computer many examples, it finds patterns, then it makes predictions about new things; hands-on…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
AI Mistakes and Limitations
Machines make mistakes; they only know what they've been shown; bad training data leads to bad results; AI is not magic — just maths on data; showing edge cases…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Humans Versus Machines
Comparing human and machine capabilities: creativity, empathy, common sense vs speed, memory, repetition; the Turing Test (simplified); what makes humans unique
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
Recommendation Systems and Filter Bubbles
How recommendation systems work: YouTube, Netflix, and shop websites track what you click and find patterns; filter bubbles; the difference between helpful…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Computing // Artificial Intelligence
AI in Computer Games
How computer game characters 'decide' what to do; simple rule-based AI vs learning AI; NPCs, difficulty adjustment; AI as the opponent in chess or board games
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Personal & Social Development // Emotional Literacy
Feelings Change and Differ
Understand that everyone has feelings, that feelings change throughout the day, and that the same event can make different people feel different things
Ages 5 to 7Concept
Personal & Social Development // Emotional Literacy
Triggers and Causes of Feelings
Understand that feelings have causes — something happens (a trigger) and that makes us feel a certain way — and begin to identify what triggers their own…
Ages 5 to 7Concept
Personal & Social Development // Emotional Literacy
How Emotions Feel in Your Body
Understand the connection between emotions and the body — recognising physical signals like butterflies in the stomach (nervous), clenched fists (angry), racing…
Ages 7 to 9Concept
Personal & Social Development // Emotional Literacy
Mild to Strong Emotions
Understand that emotions come in different intensities — from mild to strong — and that the same emotion can feel very different depending on how intense it is…
Ages 7 to 9Concept