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🖨️ 🎨 Art
KS2

Printing Techniques

Discover the different techniques used to create printed artwork and why printing matters.

Key facts:
✓ Printing is the process of transferring a design from one surface to another, allowing it to be repeated.
✓ Relief printing (like lino printing) involves cutting away areas so the raised surface holds the ink.
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🔬 Science
KS2

Electricity and Circuits

Discover how electrical circuits work and the difference between conductors and insulators.

Key facts:
✓ An electrical circuit must be a complete, unbroken loop for electricity to flow.
✓ Conductors (like metals) allow electricity to pass through them; insulators (like rubber and plastic) do not.
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🔢 Maths
KS2

Division

Learn what division means, its key vocabulary, and how to solve division problems.

Key facts:
✓ Division is the process of splitting a number into equal groups — the inverse (opposite) of multiplication.
✓ The number being divided is the dividend, the number you divide by is the divisor, and the answer is the quotient.
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🏘️ 🌍 Geography
KS2

Settlements and Land Use

Explore how and why settlements developed and how land is used within them.

Key facts:
✓ Settlements range in size from isolated farms and hamlets to villages, towns and cities.
✓ Most settlements were founded near fresh water, flat land, and natural resources.
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🧠 Pshe
KS2

Emotions and Mental Wellbeing

Learn why all emotions are valid and discover healthy ways to look after your mental wellbeing.

Key facts:
✓ All emotions — including anger, sadness and fear — are normal and give us important information about how we feel.
✓ Mental health is just as important as physical health — it describes how we think, feel and cope with daily life.
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🎭 📖 English
KS2

Poetry and Poetic Devices

Explore the techniques that poets use — rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, personification and more.

Key facts:
✓ Poems often use rhythm (a regular beat) and rhyme (matching sounds at the end of lines) to create effect.
✓ Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the start of nearby words (e.g. 'slippery silver serpent').
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📊 🔢 Maths
KS2

Statistics: Charts and Graphs

Learn how to collect, display and interpret data using charts, graphs and key statistics.

Key facts:
✓ Statistics is the collection, organisation and interpretation of data (information).
✓ Bar charts, pictograms, pie charts and line graphs are all ways of displaying data visually.
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✈️ 🏛️ History
KS2

World War Two

Learn about the causes, key events and impact of World War Two on Britain and the world.

Key facts:
✓ World War Two lasted from 1939 to 1945 and involved countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
✓ Britain declared war on Germany on 3rd September 1939 after Germany invaded Poland.
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🦋 🔬 Science
KS2

Life Cycles

Explore the life cycles of butterflies, frogs and plants from beginning to end.

Key facts:
✓ A life cycle shows the stages of growth, reproduction and death that a living thing passes through.
✓ Insects such as butterflies undergo complete metamorphosis: egg → larva (caterpillar) → pupa (chrysalis) → adult.
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🌤️ 🌍 Geography
KS2

Weather and Seasons

Discover what causes the UK’s four seasons and how meteorologists measure the weather.

Key facts:
✓ Weather is the day-to-day condition of the atmosphere; climate is the average weather pattern over many years.
✓ The UK has four seasons — spring, summer, autumn and winter — caused by Earth's tilt as it orbits the sun.
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📖 📖 English
KS2

Planning and Structuring Stories

Learn how to plan and structure a story with a beginning, problem and satisfying ending.

Key facts:
✓ Most stories follow a structure: opening, build-up, problem (conflict), resolution and ending.
✓ The opening introduces the setting and characters; the problem creates tension that drives the story forward.
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📦 🔢 Maths
KS2

2D and 3D Shapes

Explore the properties of 2D and 3D shapes — sides, faces, edges and vertices.

Key facts:
✓ 2D shapes are flat and have only length and width; 3D shapes have length, width and height (or depth).
✓ Regular polygons have sides of equal length and angles of equal size (e.g. equilateral triangle, square).
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