What your child actually learns this year

A mixed set across the strand: calligraphy, collage and the materials each needs.

A mixed set on playing and reading: tunes, and the recorder itself.

A mixed set on the games played with a ball, and the skills common to them.

Instruments that are plucked or bowed, alongside drawing. The widest topic in the subject.

Colour on a surface, and pictures built from pieces.

Serving, passing, and the teamwork that makes a rally last.

The pulse under music, and the repeat under a pattern. The same idea in two materials.

Making cloth or a mat by hand, from the first row.

Balance, control and the confidence to put your body somewhere unfamiliar.

The tune itself: how notes are chosen and ordered so a line of music holds together.

A mixed set on performance, including why a folk dance matters to the community that dances it.

Track and field, taught as technique: the long jump and the high jump.

A real instrument, properly taught. Fingering, breath, and reading the notes.

The instruments of this country played together, and what each contributes.

Clay, by hand. Patience, and an object at the end of it.

Water confidence and stroke technique. For many children the most useful thing on this list.

The games played here before imported sport arrived, and the real skills inside them.

How to say why something works, in words that go further than liking it. The skill that turns a hobby into a subject.