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  • English // Writing Composition

    Writing Process Vocabulary

    Know and use the vocabulary of the writing process — compose, plan, draft, revise, edit, proofread, genre, audience, purpose, narrative, recount, instruction…

    Ages 5 to 8Language
  • Science // Earth's Systems

    Evaporation and condensation

    Name and use vocabulary for the water cycle — evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, transpiration, water vapour, runoff, groundwater — and…

    Ages 7 to 9Language
  • Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

    Habitat Vocabulary

    Name and use vocabulary for where living things are found — habitat, environment, microhabitat, conditions, woodland, ocean, desert, rainforest, pond — and use…

    Ages 6 to 8Language
  • Science // Energy

    Naming types of energy

    Name and use vocabulary for types of energy and energy transfer — kinetic energy, potential energy, heat energy, light energy, sound energy, electrical energy…

    Ages 7 to 9Language
  • Science // Forces & Motion

    Forces Vocabulary

    Name and describe forces using precise vocabulary — force, push, pull, twist, stretch, squash, contact force, non-contact force, gravity, weight, friction, air…

    Ages 5 to 8Language
  • Science // Matter & Materials

    States of Matter Vocabulary

    Name and distinguish the three states of matter — solid, liquid, and gas — using properties vocabulary: hard, rigid, runny, flows, keeps its shape, fills its…

    Ages 5 to 7Language
  • Science // Matter & Materials

    Changes & Separation Vocabulary

    Use process vocabulary for changes of state and material separation — dissolve, solution, soluble, insoluble, evaporate, condense, melt, freeze, filter, sieve…

    Ages 7 to 9Language
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Living Things Vocabulary

    Name and use vocabulary for what makes something living — alive, dead, never been alive, movement, nutrition, growth, reproduction, sensitivity, excretion — and…

    Ages 5 to 7Language
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Animal Classification Vocabulary

    Use vocabulary for classifying animals and describing life cycles — vertebrate, invertebrate, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, insect, arachnid, larva…

    Ages 7 to 9Language
  • Science // Space Systems & Earth's History

    Naming the Planets

    Name the planets in our solar system in order from the Sun and use vocabulary for space — planet, star, sun, moon, satellite, orbit, solar system, galaxy…

    Ages 5 to 8Language
  • Science // Waves, Light & Sound

    Light & Sound Vocabulary

    Name and use vocabulary for how light and sound behave — light source, transparent, translucent, opaque, shadow, reflect, vibration, pitch, volume — and apply…

    Ages 6 to 8Language
  • History // Ancient Egypt

    Vocabulary: ancient egypt

    Know and use the key vocabulary of ancient Egypt — pharaoh, pyramid, tomb, mummy/mummification, hieroglyphs, papyrus, sarcophagus, canopic jar, natron…

    Ages 5 to 9Language
  • History // Historical Thinking

    Vocabulary: historical thinking

    Know and use the vocabulary of historical thinking — source, evidence, primary source, secondary source, artefact, chronology, chronological order, BC/BCE…

    Ages 6 to 10Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Emotional Literacy

    Naming Basic Emotions

    Name and recognise basic emotions — happy, sad, angry, scared, excited, and surprised — in themselves and in others by looking at facial expressions and body…

    Ages 5 to 7Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Emotional Literacy

    Emotion Vocabulary

    Use a wider vocabulary of emotion words beyond the basics — including frustrated, worried, anxious, embarrassed, jealous, proud, disappointed, grateful, and…

    Ages 7 to 9Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Empathy & Social Awareness

    Vocabulary: understanding others

    Know and use the key vocabulary for understanding others — empathy, perspective, kind, fair, community, similar, different, and care — and understand that these…

    Ages 5 to 8Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Empathy & Social Awareness

    Vocabulary: social awareness

    Know and use the vocabulary of social awareness — including stereotype, prejudice, discrimination, equality, equity, bias, compassion, and fairness — and…

    Ages 7 to 11Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Friendship & Cooperation

    Vocabulary: working with others

    Know and use the vocabulary of working with others — cooperate, share, take turns, team, listen, agree, disagree respectfully, and include — and understand that…

    Ages 5 to 8Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Friendship & Cooperation

    Communication Vocabulary

    Know and use the vocabulary of healthy communication and conflict — assertive, passive, aggressive, compromise, conflict, resolution, mediate, bystander…

    Ages 7 to 11Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

    Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe

    Know and use the vocabulary of making decisions and keeping safe — choice, consequence, rule, safe, fair, honest, trusted adult, and right and wrong — and…

    Ages 5 to 8Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Responsible Decision-Making

    Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship

    Know and use the vocabulary of ethics and citizenship — bullying, cyberbullying, bystander, upstander, peer pressure, digital citizenship, rights…

    Ages 7 to 11Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Self-Awareness

    Vocabulary: self

    Know and use the vocabulary of self-reflection — self-awareness, reflect, pattern, trigger, assumption, impact, perspective, and notice — and understand that…

    Ages 5 to 10Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

    Words for Big Feelings

    Know and use the key words for managing big feelings — calm, strategy, cope, settle, patience, overwhelmed, and breathe — and understand that having words for…

    Ages 5 to 8Language
  • Personal & Social Development // Self-Regulation & Resilience

    Vocabulary: resilience and self

    Know and use the vocabulary of resilience and self-management — including regulate, resilience, growth mindset, fixed mindset, self-talk, trigger, setback…

    Ages 7 to 10Language