Chapter library

Chapter 1: Roman numerals I to XII on analogue clocks

• Can read Roman numerals from I to XII and tell and write the time on a Roman numeral clock

Year 3 maths

Chapter 2: Telling the time to the nearest minute: past and to

• Can read and estimate the time to the nearest minute, using past and to

Year 3 maths Year 3 maths

Chapter 3: am, pm, morning, afternoon, noon and midnight

• Can use am and pm, and the words morning, afternoon, evening, noon and midnight

Year 3 maths

Chapter 4: 12-hour and 24-hour clocks

• Can read the time on 12-hour and 24-hour clocks

Year 3 maths

Chapter 5: Seconds, minutes and hours: 60 seconds in a minute

• Can say there are 60 seconds in a minute, and record and compare times in seconds, minutes and hours

Year 3 maths Year 3 maths

Chapter 6: Days in each month, year and leap year

• Can say how many days are in each month, in a year (365) and in a leap year (366)

Year 3 maths

Chapter 7: How long does it take? Working out and comparing durations

• Can work out how long events take by counting on, and compare durations

Year 3 maths

Chapter 1: Quarter past, half past and quarter to

• Can tell quarter past, half past and quarter to on a clock

Year 2 maths

Chapter 2: Minutes past the hour: counting in fives

• Can say that there are 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day
• Can tell and write the time to five minutes, past and to the hour

Year 2 maths Year 2 maths

Chapter 3: Minutes to the hour

• Can tell and write the time to five minutes, past and to the hour

Year 2 maths

Chapter 4: Draw the hands on a clock

• Can draw the hour and minute hands on a clock to show a time to five minutes

Year 2 maths

Chapter 5: 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day

• Can say that there are 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day

Year 2 maths

Chapter 6: Compare and order lengths of time

• Can find how long things take, and compare and order lengths of time

Year 2 maths Year 2 maths

Chapter 1: Volume and cubic centimetres: counting 1 cm³ cubes

• Can explain that volume is the space a shape takes up, and find it by counting 1 cm³ cubes, writing the answer in cm³

Year 5 maths

Chapter 2: Building cuboids and cubes from 1 cm³ cubes, layer by layer

• Can build cuboids and cubes from 1 cm³ cubes and find their volume by counting the cubes layer by layer, including hidden ones

Year 5 maths

Chapter 3: Comparing volumes: which cuboid has the greater volume?

• Can compare volumes by counting cubes, using greater than, less than and equal to

Year 5 maths

Chapter 4: Estimating volume: modelling objects with 1 cm³ cubes

• Can estimate an object's volume by building a similar shape from 1 cm³ cubes, and say if the real volume is a bit more or a bit less

Year 5 maths

Chapter 5: Estimating capacity in millilitres and litres using water

• Can estimate capacity in millilitres and litres, using water, and explain the difference between capacity and the amount of liquid inside

Year 5 maths

Chapter 1: Day and night: how Earth's rotation makes them

• Can explain that day and night happen because the Earth spins, so each place turns to face the Sun and then away from it
• Can say that the Earth spins round once every 24 hours, giving one day and one night

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: Sunrise and sunset: turning towards and away from the Sun

• Can explain that sunrise is when our part of the Earth turns towards the Sun, and sunset is when it turns away

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: The Sun's path across the sky: rising in the east, setting in the west

• Can describe how the Sun seems to rise in the east, is highest at midday in the south, and sets in the west
• Can explain that the Sun only seems to move across the sky because the Earth is spinning

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: Does the Sun really move? Using Earth's rotation to explain it

• Can explain that day and night happen because the Earth spins, so each place turns to face the Sun and then away from it
• Can explain that the Sun only seems to move across the sky because the Earth is spinning

Year 5 science

Chapter 1: The solar system: the Sun and the planets that orbit it

• Can describe the solar system: the Sun is a star at the centre, and eight planets, including Earth, orbit around it in order

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: Orbits and years: one orbit of the Sun is one year

• Can explain that one orbit of the Sun takes the Earth one year (about 365 days), and that planets further from the Sun have longer years

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: Rotation: one spin of the Earth on its axis is one day

• Can explain that the Earth spins on its axis once every 24 hours, that one spin makes one day, and that it spins about 365 times in a year

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: Day and night: how the Earth's rotation makes them

• Can explain that it is day on the half of the Earth facing the Sun and night on the half facing away, and that the Earth's spin carries us from one to the other

Year 5 science

Chapter 5: Why the Sun appears to move across the sky

• Can describe the solar system: the Sun is a star at the centre, and eight planets, including Earth, orbit around it in order
• Can explain that the Sun appears to rise in the east, be highest at midday and set in the west because the Earth spins, and how a shadow changes through the day

Year 5 science Year 5 science

Chapter 1: The Moon orbits the Earth: one trip about every 28 days

• Can describe how the Moon orbits the Earth about once every 28 days, always keeping the same side facing us

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: Moonlight is sunlight: the Sun always lights half of the Moon

• Can explain that the Moon does not make its own light: it reflects sunlight, and the Sun always lights the half of the Moon facing it

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: Phases of the Moon: why we see more or less of its sunlit half

• Can explain that, as the Moon orbits the Earth, we see more or less of its sunlit half, so it seems to change shape, and that this is not caused by Earth's shadow

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: Naming the phases: new, crescent, half, gibbous and full, waxing and waning

• Can name the phases of the Moon, like crescent and gibbous, and put them in order, using the words waxing and waning

Year 5 science

Chapter 5: The Moon's monthly cycle: predicting phases and spotting the Moon in the daytime

• Can use the way the phases repeat about every month to predict the Moon's shape, and knows the Moon can often be seen in the daytime

Year 5 science

Chapter 1: The Sun and the eight planets of the solar system

• Can explain that the Sun is the star at the centre of the solar system and name the eight planets in order

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: How the Earth orbits the Sun: one orbit is one year

• Can describe how the Earth travels around the Sun in an orbit, and that one orbit takes about 365 and a quarter days: one year

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: How the other planets orbit the Sun: near is quick, far is slow

• Can explain that all the planets orbit the Sun in the same direction, and that planets further from the Sun take longer to go round

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: The Sun, Earth and Moon are spheres

• Can describe the Sun, the Earth and the Moon as approximately spherical: round like a ball, not flat

Year 5 science

Chapter 5: Evidence that the Earth is a sphere

• Can explain clues that show the Earth is a sphere, like ships vanishing bottom first and the Earth's curved shadow on the Moon

Year 5 science

Chapter 1: Planning a talk: purpose, listener and a beginning, middle and end

• Can choose the purpose of a talk, think about who is listening, and plan it with a beginning, middle and end

Years 1–6 english

Chapter 2: Clear descriptions and explanations: precise detail, steps in order and because

• Can give clear descriptions with precise detail, and explanations in order using words like first, next, because and so

Years 1–6 english

Chapter 3: Telling stories and sharing feelings: opening, problem, ending and why you felt it

• Can tell a story with a beginning, a problem and an ending, and share a feeling by saying what they felt and why

Years 1–6 english

Chapter 4: Speaking audibly and fluently: volume, pace, pauses and fewer ums

• Can speak audibly and fluently by choosing the right volume for the room, keeping a steady pace, pausing in the right places and using fewer ums

Years 1–6 english

Chapter 5: Speaking in Standard English: we were, I did and I saw

• Can use Standard English when speaking, such as we were instead of we was and I did instead of I done, in any accent

Years 1–6 english

Chapter 6: Keeping your listener's interest: hooks, a lively voice and watching your audience

• Can gain, keep and check a listener's interest: hooking them at the start, using a lively voice and eye contact, and spotting when they drift off

Years 1–6 english

Chapter 1: Synonyms: words with similar meanings (big, large)

• Can find and write synonyms: words with the same or similar meaning, like big and large

Year 6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 2: Antonyms: words with opposite meanings (big, little)

• Can find and write antonyms: words with opposite meanings, like big and little, including ones made with un-, dis-, in- and im-

Year 6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 3: Synonym or antonym? Telling big, large and little apart

• Can tell whether two words are synonyms or antonyms, and use both terms correctly

Year 6 english Year 6 english

Chapter 4: Choosing the best synonym or antonym for a sentence

• Can choose the synonym or antonym that best fits the meaning and strength of a sentence

Year 6 english

Chapter 5: Grammar terms: subject, object, active and passive

• Can spot the subject and object of a sentence and say whether it is active or passive

Year 6 english

Chapter 6: Punctuation terms: ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon and bullet points

• Can name an ellipsis, a hyphen, a colon, a semi-colon and bullet points, and say what each one does

Year 6 english

Chapter 1: Story Words at the Post Office

• Can explain and use story words like notice, peculiar, imagine, decide, surprise, describe and promise

Chapter 2: Detective Word Clues

• Can work out what a new word means by finding clues in the sentence

Chapter 3: Shades of Meaning

• Can pick a word with a similar meaning, find an opposite, and choose a stronger word (warm, hot, boiling)

Chapter 4: Prefix Potions

• Can add the prefixes un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre- and sub- and say what the new word means

Chapter 5: Word Family Tree

• Can spot words in the same family (help, helpful, helper) and add -ly correctly, as in quickly, gently and happily

Chapter 6: Echo Cave: Two Meanings and Homophones

• Can use the sentence to pick the right meaning of a two-meaning word, and spell homophones like here and hear

Chapter 1: What is an earthquake? Earth's layers and tectonic plates

• Can say what an earthquake is, name the Earth's layers (crust, mantle, outer core and inner core) and explain that the crust is cracked into tectonic plates

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Why earthquakes happen: plates, faults and epicentres

• Can explain that earthquakes happen when tectonic plates get stuck and then suddenly slip, and can point out the focus and the epicentre

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Where earthquakes happen: plate boundaries and the Ring of Fire

• Can describe how most earthquakes happen along plate boundaries, especially around the Ring of Fire, and why the UK only has small ones

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Measuring earthquakes: seismometers and magnitude

• Can explain that a seismometer measures shaking and that a higher magnitude means a much stronger earthquake

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: How people prepare: drills, emergency kits and safe buildings

• Can explain how people prepare for earthquakes, including Drop, Cover and Hold On, emergency kits and earthquake-safe buildings

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: What is a volcano? Magma chamber, vent, crater, magma and lava

• Can name and find the main parts of a volcano: magma chamber, main vent, crater, side vent, layers of lava and ash, and ash cloud
• Can explain that magma is melted rock underground and lava is melted rock that has come out of a volcano

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Why volcanoes erupt: magma, gas and pressure

• Can explain that rock melts into magma, the magma rises, and gas builds up pressure until the volcano erupts

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Where volcanoes are found: tectonic plates and the Ring of Fire

• Can explain that most volcanoes are found where tectonic plates meet, especially around the Ring of Fire, and can find some famous volcanoes on a map

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Active, dormant and extinct volcanoes

• Can explain the difference between active, dormant and extinct volcanoes

Years 3–6 geography