Grade 7: every topic

Every topic a child covers in Grade 7 under the Compulsory Education Curriculum (2022), as the app teaches it. 88 topics across 23 subjects: Exam technique, Explore, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Quantitative reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Brain teasers, Mathematics, English, Writing, French, Spanish, Reading, Art, Physical education, Health, Computing, Social studies, Music, Drama, Business studies, Economics.

This is the real list, not a summary. Each line is one topic in Light Learning, in the words of the China programme rather than reworded.

Reading

34 topics in Reading this year.

Reading · Literature

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Art

9 topics in Art this year.

Drawing

• Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Grade 7: tone and shading, perspective, observational study.

Colour

• How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Grade 7: tints and shades, colour and feeling.

Painting

• Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Grade 7: brush marks, working from a study.

Printmaking and pattern

• Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Grade 7: relief printing, pattern in other cultures.

Sculpture and making

• Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Grade 7: carving and casting, working to a brief.

Textiles and craft

• Cloth, thread and the making traditions that most of the world learned art through. Working at Grade 7: dyeing and resist.

Digital art and photography

• The tools most children will actually use, treated as art materials rather than as a treat. Working at Grade 7: framing and composition, editing honestly, drawing on a screen.

Looking at art

• Being able to say something true about somebody else’s work, which is half of every art curriculum and the half usually skipped. Working at Grade 7: what the artist did, why it was made, disagreeing about art.

Sketchbook and process

• The record of the work rather than the finished piece, which is what an art course is actually assessed on. Working at Grade 7: keeping a sketchbook, trying it three ways, annotating your work, finishing a piece.

Physical education

4 topics in Physical education this year.

Movement skills

• The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Grade 7: agility and reaction.

Fitness and the body

• What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Grade 7: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, planning your own training.

Games and fair play

• How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Grade 7: playing by the rules, attacking and defending, tactics and set plays, winning and losing well, officiating a game yourself.

Safety and equipment

• The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Grade 7: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries.

Health

4 topics in Health this year.

Keeping the body well

• Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Grade 7: sleep, illness and immunity, growing and changing.

Food and nutrition

• What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Grade 7: water and drinks, reading a label, allergies.

Feelings and wellbeing

• Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Grade 7: naming feelings, calming down, worry, screens and comparison, asking for help.

Safety and first aid

• What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Grade 7: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, when somebody is unconscious, medicines.

Computing

4 topics in Computing this year.

Algorithms and programming

• Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Grade 7: variables, debugging, breaking a problem up.

How computers work

• What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Grade 7: binary, networks and the internet, how a search engine works.

Online safety and citizenship

• Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Grade 7: passwords, judging what you read, being decent online, what a free app costs.

Creating with technology

• Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Grade 7: spreadsheets, making a program, using other people’s work, making it usable by everybody.

Social studies

4 topics in Social studies this year.

History

• What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Grade 7: cause and consequence, bias and interpretation.

Geography

• Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Grade 7: latitude, longitude and time zones, rivers, coasts and landforms, people and places.

Citizenship and government

• How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Grade 7: how a country is run, taxes and public services, having a say.

People, work and money

• How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Grade 7: buying, selling and trade, why prices change.

Mathematics

3 topics in Mathematics this year.

The Number System

• Apply and extend previous understandings of operations to add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers.

Geometry

• Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical and adjacent angles to solve for an unknown angle.

Statistics and Probability

• Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context, and describe their spread.

Music

3 topics in Music this year.

Beat, rhythm and pitch

• The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Grade 7: scales and octaves, syncopation.

Reading and writing music

• How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At Grade 7: the stave and clefs, time signatures, sharps, flats and keys.

Listening and traditions

• Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Grade 7: verse, chorus and structure, improvising, music with pictures.

Drama

3 topics in Drama this year.

Voice and performing

• Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Grade 7: being heard, staying in character, when it goes wrong.

Character and script

• Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At Grade 7: conflict and status, improvising, monologue and soliloquy.

Stagecraft

• Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At Grade 7: light and sound, rehearsal, working backstage.

Business studies

3 topics in Business studies this year.

How a business works

• What a business is, who owns it, and why most of them close in the first two years. At Grade 7: types of business, costs, revenue and profit, customers and competition.

Accounting

• Writing down what happened to the money so that somebody else can check it. At Grade 7: keeping records, assets, liabilities and equity.

Money, banking and enterprise

• Banking, credit, tax, and what it takes to start something of your own. At Grade 7: banking and cards, interest and inflation, budgeting and saving, starting a business.

Economics

3 topics in Economics this year.

Producing and working

• Who makes what, who does the work, and why some countries are richer than others. At Grade 7: factors of production, division of labour, work and wages.

Money and prices

• What money is for, and why the same note buys less every year. At Grade 7: what money does, why prices rise, saving and borrowing, value for money.

Making a decision with numbers

• The habit the whole subject is for: working out which option is actually better. At Grade 7: weighing two options.

Quantitative reasoning

2 topics in Quantitative reasoning this year.

Reasoning · quantitative

• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Compulsory Education Curriculum (2022) standard).
• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Compulsory Education Curriculum (2022) standard).

Verbal reasoning

2 topics in Verbal reasoning this year.

Reasoning · verbal

• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Compulsory Education Curriculum (2022) standard).
• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Compulsory Education Curriculum (2022) standard).

Exam technique

1 topic in Exam technique this year.

Examination technique

• Use estimation and elimination to answer objective questions efficiently.

Explore

1 topic in Explore this year.

Medicine

• Explain how immune memory works and what a vaccine actually contains.

Physics

1 topic in Physics this year.

MS-PS2 · Motion and Stability

• Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in motion depends on the sum of the forces and the mass.

Chemistry

1 topic in Chemistry this year.

MS-PS1 · Structure and Properties of Matter

• Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.

Biology

1 topic in Biology this year.

MS-LS1 · From Molecules to Organisms

• Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells.

Brain teasers

1 topic in Brain teasers this year.

Puzzles and reasoning

• Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

English

1 topic in English this year.

Reading · Literature and Informational Text

• Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and inferences drawn from it.

Writing

1 topic in Writing this year.

Writing · Argument and Informative Texts

• Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

French

1 topic in French this year.

World Languages · French

• Communicate in French on very familiar topics using memorised words and phrases.

Spanish

1 topic in Spanish this year.

World Languages · Spanish

• Communicate in Spanish on very familiar topics using memorised words and phrases.

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