What your child actually learns this year

A mixed set across the strand: countries, drainage features and the physical landscape.

Which country is where, and how big. The map a child needs before anything else makes sense.

Mountains, valleys, lakes and rivers, and why they are where they are.

Why one place is wet and another dry, and what grows as a result.

Forest, savannah and desert, and what decides which appears.

The places that hold the region's history, and why they are protected.

A mixed set across the strand: language groups, elders, and the communities of Kenya.

Who speaks what, and what that says about where people came from.

Where people are crowded and where they are few, and why.

How communities are ordered, and what holds them together.

The place a school occupies in the life around it.

A mixed set across the strand: minerals, natural resources and where they are found.

Where cattle are kept, how, and what it contributes.

The lakes and the coast, the methods used and what limits them.

The parks, the visitors, and the money that follows them.

Roads, rail, water and air, and what each is good for.

How messages move, from the post to the phone in your pocket.

What is taken out of the ground here, and where.

A mixed set across the strand: taxes, national symbols and the duties of a citizen.

How communities here governed themselves before the state as we know it.

Why neighbouring countries work together, and what they get out of it.

How a person becomes a citizen, and what citizenship obliges as well as what it grants.

What a right is, who holds it, and what is supposed to happen when one is breached.

Settling a dispute before it escalates, taught as a skill.

Where public money comes from and where it goes.

The opening words of the document the whole country is governed by, and what they promise.