Chapter library

Chapter 1: Unsupported objects fall towards the Earth

• Can explain that objects fall towards the Earth when nothing is holding them up, because gravity pulls them

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: Gravity: a pull between the Earth and a falling object

• Can describe gravity as a pull acting between the Earth and a falling object, even when they aren't touching

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: Falling towards the Earth: which way is down all around the world

• Can predict which way unsupported objects fall in different places on Earth: always towards the Earth's centre

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: Galileo and Newton: scientists who explained falling objects and gravity

• Can describe how Galileo and Newton helped us understand gravity and falling objects

Year 5 science

Chapter 1: Beyond living memory: how people travelled before the first aeroplane flight

• Can say how people travelled before aeroplanes, and compare the first aeroplane with planes today
• Can explain that the first aeroplane flight was in 1903, more than 120 years ago, before anyone alive today was born

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 2: Significant people: the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright

• Can name Wilbur and Orville Wright and say how they worked to build a flying machine

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 3: The first aeroplane flight: 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk

• Can say what happened on the day of the first aeroplane flight: Orville flew the Wright Flyer for 12 seconds on a windy beach near Kitty Hawk, in America
• Can name Wilbur and Orville Wright and say how they worked to build a flying machine

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 4: Why the first flight matters: comparing travel then and now, from the Wright brothers to Neil Armstrong

• Can say how people travelled before aeroplanes, and compare the first aeroplane with planes today
• Can say why the first flight changed the world: planes now carry people and things all around the world, and flying led to space travel

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 1: Wake the computer

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 2: The abacus

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 3: Machines of gears

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 4: ENIAC, the giant

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 5: Smaller and faster

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 6: Bits: on and off

• Can explain that computers store everything as bits: 0s and 1s

Chapter 7: Logic gates

• Can explain how simple logic gates like AND and OR turn inputs into an output

Chapter 8: Build a computer

• Can name the main parts of a computer, like the processor, memory, input and output, and say what they do

Chapter 9: Press a key

• Can explain how the processor fetches, decodes and carries out an instruction when you press a key

Chapter 10: Computer explorer

• Can describe how computers changed, from the abacus and gears to valves, chips and today's devices

Chapter 1: Swap it!

• Can explain why swapping goods (barter) was tricky and why people needed money

Chapter 2: Things everyone wanted

• Can explain why swapping goods (barter) was tricky and why people needed money

Chapter 3: The first coins

• Can describe how the first coins and paper money began

Chapter 4: Paper money

• Can describe how the first coins and paper money began

Chapter 5: Goldsmiths become banks

• Can explain how banks began and how lending creates new money

Chapter 6: Money built on trust

• Can explain that money works because people trust it, not because of gold

Chapter 7: Where new money comes from

• Can explain how banks began and how lending creates new money

Chapter 8: Why prices go up

• Can explain why prices rise over time and how interest rates can slow it down

Chapter 9: Money goes digital

• Can explain that money works because people trust it, not because of gold

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: 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

Chapter 1: The Moon landing in 1969: the Apollo 11 journey from launch to splashdown

• Can tell the story of the first Moon landing in 1969: the Saturn V rocket, the Eagle landing on the Moon and the trip home

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 2: Significant people: the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins

• Can name Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and say what each one did on the Apollo 11 mission

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 3: Significant people: Christopher Columbus and his voyage across the ocean in 1492

• Can describe how Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 in wooden ships, using the wind, a compass and the stars

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 4: Chronology: putting Columbus, the Moon landing and today on a timeline

• Can put Columbus's voyage, the Moon landing and today in time order, using words like before, after, long ago and now

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 5: Similarities and differences: comparing life for Columbus (1492) and Neil Armstrong (1969)

• Can say what was the same and what was different about how Columbus and Neil Armstrong travelled, lived and shared their news

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 1: Where and when: the early Islamic empire and Baghdad

• Can say where and when Baghdad was built, and place it on a timeline alongside Anglo-Saxon Britain

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: Baghdad c. AD 900: the Round City and how it grew

• Can describe how Baghdad's Round City was planned, what was inside it and how the city grew

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: Trade and daily life in Baghdad c. AD 900

• Can explain how trade brought goods, paper and ideas to Baghdad, and describe daily life there

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: The House of Wisdom: scholars and their discoveries

• Can describe the House of Wisdom and match its scholars to their discoveries

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: Contrasts with British history: Baghdad and Anglo-Saxon Britain c. AD 900

• Can describe similarities and differences between Baghdad and Anglo-Saxon Britain around AD 900

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: Where and when: the first civilizations

• Can find Sumer, Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley and the Shang Dynasty on a map and match each one to its river
• Can put the first civilizations in time order and read BC dates, knowing that a bigger BC number means longer ago

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: The River Indus: floods, farming and growing cities

• Can explain how the River Indus flooded and left rich silt for crops, and how spare food let villages grow into cities
• Can find Sumer, Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley and the Shang Dynasty on a map and match each one to its river

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: Planned cities: grid streets, baked bricks and drains

• Can describe how Indus cities were planned, with grid streets, same-sized baked bricks, wells and covered drains

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: Trade: seals, weights, boats and carts

• Can explain how Indus traders used seals to label goods, stone weights to weigh them fairly, and boats and ox-carts to carry them as far as Sumer

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: Daily life: homes, jobs, toys and writing

• Can describe Indus homes, jobs and toys, and explain that we know about them from objects archaeologists dig up because nobody can read Indus writing yet

Years 3–6 history