What your child actually learns this year

The key, the scale, the compass and the title, and reading real features off a map using them.

The countries Kenya borders, where each one lies by compass direction, and why getting on with them matters.

The mountains, lakes, rivers and valleys, named and placed on a map.

The elements of weather, Kenya's main climatic regions and what each is like, and how weather shapes the day's plans.

Kenya's historic sites, where they are, and what is being done to keep them standing.

The main groups, where they are, and what each one gains from the others.

Where people are crowded and where they are sparse, and what follows from both.

How children were taught before classrooms, and the values that teaching carried.

Who runs a school, what each role does, and the work behind it. A topic about your child's own day.

What the country has, the benefit of using it carefully, and what using it sustainably actually looks like.

The major minerals, where they are on the map, and what mining contributes.

The main inland fishing grounds, placed on a map, and what fishing contributes.

The parks and reserves, the main attractions, and what visitors are worth to the country.

From early transport to modern, and road safety, which is the part that matters most immediately.

From early forms to the phone in the house, and what that has changed.

What made particular leaders worth following, and what they left behind.

How communities governed themselves, the Maasai and the Ameru compared, and what modern government could still borrow.

How a person becomes a citizen, what dual citizenship requires, and what good citizenship looks like day to day.

The three arms, what each does, and why they are kept apart.

The national symbols, what pulls Kenyans together, and what gets in the way.

The basic rights, why they matter, and how they are protected.

The kinds of democracy, what it is good for, and practising it somewhere as small as a classroom.