PRIMARY
TUITION
YEAR 1 TO YEAR 6

Year 6

English

• In the final year of KS2, A variety of genres of books will be provided by the students where they could develop their interest in reading.
• They will learn about the relationship between words by learning about synonyms and antonyms.
• When students learn how to write a text, they will use the suitable vocabulary and use distinctive of representational devices such as adverbs to structure their sentence properly.
• They will learn the use of different punctuations accurately, such as the use of semi-colons, colons, dashes and hyphens.

Mathematics

• Children will learn about negative, square and prime numbers.
• They will be multiplying and dividing with numbers up to four digits, using formal and efficient methods.
• They will be dealing with percentages, decimals, fractions, which are more complicated.
• Children will also gain exposure to the topics of proportion, ration and followed by algebra.
• They will need to measure the volume, area and perimeter of different shapes and convert between units of measurement.

Science

• Children will learn about humans and animals with further details.
• The scientific names for some major organs and their function in our body systems will be taught.
• They will explore how humans contribute to the positive and negative effects of the environment such as causing extinction of certain species and also protecting the habitats.
• They will also explore several ways of preserving the environment such as recycling, reducing waste, reducing energy consumption, not littering and encouraging others to care for the environment.
• They will know how food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships in a habitat and present these in text and diagrams. Hence, they will be able to explore and construct food chains in a particular habitat.
• Besides that, children will learn about changes of materials in further details.
• They will observe, describe, record and begin to explain changes that occur when some solids are added to water. They will explore how filtering can be useful for solids that do not dissolve or reacts with water. They will also explore how some solids dissolve in water to form solutions and, although the solid cannot be seen, the substance is still present.
• Furthermore, children will learn about forces and motion in further details. They will distinguish between mass measured in kilograms (kg) and weight measured in newtons. They will also recognize and use units of force, mass and weight to identify the direction in which forces act. Thus, they will be able to understand the notion of energy in movement. They will also recognize friction (including air resistance) as a force which can affect the speed by slowing objects down.
• Moreover, children will learn about electricity and magnetism in further details. They will also predict and test the effects of making changes to circuits, including length or thickness of wire and the number and type of components and be able to represent series circuits with drawings and conventional symbols.

Year 5

English

• In this Year where children start their preparation for the entrance of secondary school, they will read books with a range of different genres.
• They will continue the use of their skills to understand the character’s motives and feelings.
• They will learn to spell words with greater complexity and words with different prefixes and suffixes.
• When constructing a sentence, they will select the precise vocabulary and use a variety of presentation devices to structure their sentence.

 Mathematics 

• They will be expected to deal with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division confidently.
• They need to be confident in their methods for using all four operations with numbers which contain up to 4 digits.
• Children will be learning about decimals, fractions and percentages.
• They will learn the skills of calculating the perimeter and area of different shapes.
• Children will need to solve measurement problems which involve the conversion of units for certain measurements.
• They will learn to draw and measure angles and also calculate the angle of missing angles.
• They will need to interpret information in tables and line graphs.

Science

• Children will learn about plants in further details.
• They will learn that plants need energy from light for growth and reproduction. They will observe how seeds can be dispersed in a variety of ways and investigate how water and warmth are needed for the germination of seeds but light isn’t a necessity.
• They will also observe that structure of flowers such as the male and female organs. They will also be able to recognise that flowering plants have a life cycle including pollination, fertilization, seed production, seed dispersal and germination.
• Furthermore, children will also learn about the states of matter which include the process of evaporation and condensation where liquid turns into a gas and vice versa respectively.
• They will learn that the boiling point of water is 100°C and the melting point of ice is 0°C.
• Moreover, children will learn about light in further details. They will observe shadows formed when light traveling from a source is blocked and investigate how the size of a shadow is affected by the position of the object.
• They will also observe that change in length and shape of shadows throughout the day and learn how to measure the light intensity.
• They will be able to explore how opaque materials do not allow light passing through but transparent materials allow it to occur. They will explore why a beam of light changes direction when it is reflected from a surface.
• Besides that, children will also learn about the earth and the planets beyond it in further details. They will Explore, through modeling, that the sun does not move; its apparent movement is caused by the Earth spinning on its axis. Thus, they will know that the Earth spins on its axis once in every 24 hours and takes a year to orbit the sun, spinning as it goes.
• They will also do some research on the lives and discoveries of scientists who explored the solar system and stars.

Year 4

English 

• Children will gain familiarity with a wide range of genres of writing.
• They should become much more confident this year with handwriting and be keeping it as neat when it comes to writing.
• They will be using apostrophes to mark plural possession.
• They should also be more familiar with including dialogue in their writings and the correct use of speech marks.

Mathematics

• They will be learning to add and subtract numbers with up to four digits using column addition and subtraction.
• They will continue to learn their times tables and complete all of them up to the 12 times table by this year. Then, this will help them in moving onto multiplying three-digit numbers by a number consisting of just one digit.
• They will solve problems involving fractions and they will be introduced to decimals.
• They will need to find the area and perimeter of shapes, convert between units of measurement and convert between the 12-hour and 24-hour system clock.

Science

• Children will learn about humans and animals in more details: They will know that humans and some animals have bony skeletons inside their bodies and how skeletons grow as humans grow, in order to support and protect the body. They will also learn that animals with skeletons have muscles attached to the bones and how a muscle should contract to move a bone.
• They will also be able to explain the role of drugs as medicines.
• They will also learn about living things in their environment in more details where they will investigate how different animals are found in different habitats and are suited to the environment in which they are found.
• Furthermore, children will learn about states of matter. They will know that matter can be classified into solid, liquid or gas. They will also investigate how the state of matters change when they are heated and cooled. They will also observe how water turns into steam when it is heated and how it turns back into water when it is cooled down.
• In addition, children will learn about sound in further details. They will explore how sounds are produced and investigate how sound travels through varied materials to the ear. They will also investigate the relationship between the frequency of a sound and the volume produced. They will also explore how the pitch can be changed in musical instruments in a range of ways.
• Besides that, they will learn also about electricity and magnetism. The children will manage to construct complete circuits using switch, cell (battery), wire and lamps. They will explore how an electrical device will not work if there is a break in the circuit.
• They will also explore the forces between magnets and know that magnets can attract or repel each other. They will know that magnets attract some metals but not others.

Year 3

English 

Children will be increasing their familiarity with a wide range of genres of writing. They will be preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and perform. They will be thinking about inference and making predictions about what is going to happen in a story.This year they will need to build on their handwriting work in Year 2, becoming more confident with combining letters. They will be thinking carefully about the setting, characters and plot in their stories and how to structure a text, remembering to use plenty of good description. They will need to use connecting words such as when, before, after, while, so and because. They will start to use speech marks when writing dialogue this year.

Mathematics 

They will start adding and subtracting with three-digit numbers by using column  They will learn their 3, 4 and 8 times tables then moving onto multiplying a two-digit number by a one-digit number. Children will learn how to find fractions of quantities and about equivalent fractions. They will learn about perimeter and also how to tell the time on a 12 hour system and 24 hour system clock. They will start to learn about right angles, horizontal , perpendicular and parallel lines.

Science

Children will learn about plants in more details: explain observations that plants need water and light to grow, know that water is taken in through the roots and transported through the stem and know that plant growth is affected by temperature. They will also learn about humans and animals in more details: know life processes common to humans and animals include nutrition (water and food), movement, growth and reproduction, describe differences between living and non-living things using knowledge of life processes and explore and research exercise and the adequate, varied diet needed to keep healthy. They will also explore human senses and the ways we use them to learn about our world as well as sort living things into groups, using simple features and describe rationale for groupings.

Furthermore, children will learn about material properties in more details: know that every material has specific properties. For examples, hard, soft, shiny. They will be able to sort materials according to their properties. They will explore how some materials are magnetic but many are not and discuss why materials are chosen for specific purposes based on their properties.

Moreover, children will learn about forces and motion in more details: know that pushes and pulls are examples of forces and that they can be measured with forcemeters, explore how forces can make objects start or stop moving and how forces can change the shape of objects. They will also explore how forces, including friction, can make objects move faster or slower or change direction.

Year 2

English

Children will carry on building their phonics work in Year 1 until they are able to read words automatically, without having to sound out. They will continue to read a range of different stories and introduced to non-fiction books. They will be able to apply the rules on spelling based on what they have learnt. They will be more confident in their formation of letters and will learn how to start joining their handwriting. They will have plenty of practice writing stories and will also write some poetry. They will be taught to use capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks and question marks correctly.

Mathematics

Children in Year 2 will learn to add and subtract with two-digit and one-digit numbers. They will learn multiplication and division fact for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Children will need to find 1/3, 1/4 1/2 and 3/4 of a shape or a quantity of objects. They will learn to name and describe the properties of common 2D and 3D shapes. Year 2 children carry out activities where they interpret and construct block graphs, tally charts, pictograms and tables.

Science

Children will learn about living things in their environment. They will identify similarities and differences between local environments and know about some of the ways in which these affect the animals and plants that are found there. They will also observe and talk about their observation of the weather, recording reports of weather data.

Moreover, children will learn about material properties and changes. They will learn to recognize some types of rocks and the uses of different rocks. They will know how the shapes of some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching. They will also describe the way some everyday materials change when they are heated or cooled. They will recognize that some materials can dissolve in water.

Furthermore, children will learn about light and dark where they will identify different light sources including the sun. They will also be able to identify shadow and know that darkness is due to absence of light. They will also learn about electricity which will require them to recognize the components of simple circuits involving cells (batteries). They need to know how a switch can be used to break a circuit as well. In addition, the children will learn about the earth and beyond. They will explore how the sun appears to move during the day and how shadows change. They will also make a model how the spin of the Earth leads to day and night, for examples, with different sized balls and a torch.