Chapter library

Chapter 1: Cube Crate

• Can make 2-digit numbers from tens and ones and say how many of each there are

Chapter 2: Place Value House

• Can make 2-digit numbers from tens and ones and say how many of each there are

Chapter 3: Tens Tower

• Can count on and back in tens from any number, like 23, 33, 43

Chapter 4: Split Baskets

• Can split a 2-digit number into tens and ones in different ways, like 45 = 40 + 5 = 30 + 15

Chapter 5: Croc River

• Can compare numbers up to 100 using <, > and =

Chapter 6: Frog Track

• Can estimate where a number goes on a number line from 0 to 100

Chapter 1: Factor Forest

• Can find all the factors of a number and the highest common factor of two numbers

Chapter 2: Multiples Meadow

• Can find multiples of a number and common multiples of two numbers

Chapter 3: Prime Peaks

• Can tell whether a number is prime, and write a number as a product of primes

Chapter 4: Square Garden

• Can square numbers (like 7² = 49) and recognise square numbers

Chapter 5: Cube Castle

• Can cube numbers (like 3³ = 27) and recognise cube numbers

Chapter 1: Roman numeral letters: I, V, X, L, C, D (500) and M (1,000)

• Can say what the seven Roman letters are worth, including D (500) and M (1,000), and add them up when they go from biggest to smallest

Year 5 maths

Chapter 2: Take-away pairs: reading IV, IX, XL, XC, CD and CM

• Can read the take-away pairs IV, IX, XL, XC, CD and CM

Year 5 maths

Chapter 3: Reading Roman numerals to 1,000 by splitting them into chunks

• Can read any Roman numeral up to 1,000 by splitting it into chunks

Year 5 maths

Chapter 4: Recognising years written in Roman numerals

• Can recognise years written in Roman numerals, like MMXXVI for 2026

Year 5 maths

Chapter 1: The Apple Stall

• Can say what I, V, X, L and C are worth

Chapter 2: The Legion Camp

• Can explain that a smaller symbol before a bigger one is taken away, as in IV (4) and IX (9)

Chapter 3: The Gate Builder

• Can read Roman numerals up to 100, like LXXIV
• Can write numbers up to 100 in Roman numerals, building tens then ones

Chapter 4: The Story of Zero

• Can explain that Roman numerals have no zero and no place value, unlike our digits

Chapter 1: Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000 on a number line

• Can round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000, including numbers exactly halfway

Year 6 maths

Chapter 2: Rounding large numbers to the nearest 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000

• Can round any whole number up to 10,000,000 to the nearest 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000

Year 6 maths

Chapter 3: Using estimation to check answers to calculations

• Can round numbers to make a quick estimate and use it to check whether an answer is sensible

Year 6 maths

Chapter 4: Choosing an appropriate degree of accuracy in real-life problems

• Can decide how accurate an answer needs to be in a real-life problem, and whether to round up or down

Year 6 maths

Chapter 5: Solving problems with answers rounded to a specified degree of accuracy

• Can solve problems and round the answer to a given accuracy, including the nearest whole number, tenth, hundredth or penny

Year 6 maths

Chapter 1: Tens Hill

• Can find the tens, hundreds or thousands either side of a number, like 70 and 80 for 74
• Can round numbers to the nearest 10

Chapter 2: The Decider

• Can round numbers to the nearest 10
• Can find the deciding digit and use it to choose whether to round up or down

Chapter 3: Hundred Hills

• Can round numbers to the nearest 100
• Can find the deciding digit and use it to choose whether to round up or down

Chapter 4: Thousand Peaks

• Can round numbers to the nearest 1,000
• Can find the deciding digit and use it to choose whether to round up or down

Chapter 5: Decimal Dunes

• Can round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number

Chapter 1: Subitising 1, 2 and 3: seeing how many without counting

• Can say how many there are in a group of 1, 2 or 3 just by looking, then count to check

Reception maths Reception maths

Chapter 2: Dot patterns and dice: subitising up to 5

• Can recognise dice and dot patterns for 1 to 5 without counting

Reception maths Reception maths

Chapter 3: Finger patterns: subitising fingers up to 5

• Can show 1 to 5 on their fingers and say how many fingers just by looking

Reception maths Reception maths

Chapter 4: Tens frames: subitising up to 5 counters

• Can say how many counters, up to 5, are on a tens frame without counting

Reception maths

Chapter 5: Small groups inside 4 and 5: subitise, then count to check

• Can spot small groups inside 4 and 5 to say how many altogether

Reception maths Reception maths

Chapter 1: Natural resources: energy, food, minerals and water

• Can sort natural resources into energy, food, minerals and water, and say what we use energy for

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Fossil fuels: how coal, oil and natural gas formed

• Can explain that coal formed from swamp plants, and oil and gas from tiny sea creatures, squeezed underground over millions of years
• Can sort energy resources into renewable (never runs out) and non-renewable (will run out one day)

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Renewable energy: sun, wind, water and heat from the Earth

• Can choose a good place for solar, wind, hydro, tidal and geothermal power
• Can sort energy resources into renewable (never runs out) and non-renewable (will run out one day)

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Distribution of energy resources around the world

• Can describe how energy resources are spread unevenly around the world, and name places with lots of oil, coal, sunshine, wind, hydro and geothermal energy

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: Trade links: how countries import and export energy

• Can explain importing and exporting, how energy travels by ship, pipeline and cable, and where the UK gets its energy

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: What trade is: buying and selling goods and services

• Can explain that trade is buying and selling, and tell goods (things you can touch) from services (things people do for you)

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Economic activity: primary, secondary and tertiary jobs

• Can sort jobs into primary (taking raw materials from nature), secondary (making things) and tertiary (services) economic activity

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Imports and exports: why countries trade and who the UK trades with

• Can explain imports (goods coming into a country) and exports (goods sent out), and why countries trade: different climates, natural resources and skills

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Supply chains: how products travel from factories to our shops

• Can describe how products travel from factories to our shops: made from parts from many countries, shipped in containers to a port, then taken by lorry or train to warehouses and shops

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: Fair trade: fair prices for farmers and workers

• Can explain what fair trade is: farmers and workers get a fair minimum price, plus extra Premium money for their community

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: Where rainforests grow: the equator, tropics and climate zones

• Can find where rainforests grow on a world map: near the equator, in the hot tropical climate zone

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Rainforest climate: a hot, wet tropical biome

• Can explain what a biome is and describe the rainforest climate as hot and wet all year

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Rainforest layers: emergent, canopy, understory and forest floor

• Can name the four rainforest layers in order (emergent, canopy, understory, forest floor) and say what each is like

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Rainforest plants: drip tips, buttress roots, lianas and epiphytes

• Can explain how drip tips, buttress roots, lianas and epiphytes help rainforest plants survive

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: Rainforest animals and the layers they live in

• Can match rainforest animals to the layer they live in and explain why the canopy is the busiest layer

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 6: Why rainforests matter: rain, homes, food and protection

• Can explain why rainforests matter (rain, homes for wildlife, food, medicines and storing carbon) and how we can help protect them

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: How much of Earth's water is fresh and usable

• Can explain how much of Earth's water is fresh: almost all water is salty sea water, most fresh water is frozen or hidden underground, and only a tiny splash is in rivers and lakes

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Why fresh water is shared out unevenly around the world

• Can explain why fresh water is shared out unevenly: rain falls unevenly, deserts get very little, and places with lots of people must share their water between more people

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: How water is collected and stored: rivers, reservoirs and underground

• Can describe how water is collected and stored: taken from rivers, stored in reservoirs behind dams, and pumped up from rocks underground

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: How water is cleaned at a water treatment works

• Can put the cleaning steps in the right order: screens catch big bits, dirt clumps and settles, sand filters the rest, then a little chlorine kills germs

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: How clean water is piped to our homes, and where it goes next

• Can describe the whole journey from cloud to tap: clean water is pumped up to a service reservoir on a hill, flows downhill through pipes to our taps, and used water goes to a sewage works

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: Meet Florence

• Can explain how young Florence chose to become a nurse

Chapter 2: Meet Mary

• Can explain how Mary Seacole learned to heal people

Chapter 3: The journey

• Can explain how Florence and Mary travelled a long way to help soldiers

Chapter 4: Clean up!

• Can explain why a clean hospital helps sick people get better

Chapter 5: Lamp at night

• Can describe how Florence cared for soldiers at night and used counting to help them

Chapter 6: Mary's hotel

• Can describe how Mary looked after soldiers in the war

Chapter 7: Then and now

• Can say how hospitals long ago were different from hospitals now