What your child actually learns this year

The work that actually exists in these fields, which is more than most families imagine.

The building blocks shared across art, music, drama and sport, and why they are taught together.

Line, shape, colour and the discipline of looking properly before drawing.

The pulse underneath music. The part a child feels before they can name it.

Track and field alongside pattern making in small pieces. An unusual pairing, and the largest topic in the strand.

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

The rules, the skills and the teamwork, taught as a sport rather than a free period.

Framing, light and the decision of what to leave out.

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

Drama: writing it, staging it and performing it in front of people.

Court skills alongside designing a mark that has to work small. Another deliberate pairing of body and eye.

The making traditions of this country, taught as skill rather than as history.

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 skills in them.

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