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Every topic in Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, from Creche and Nursery to SSS 3, with 988 topics in the app.

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Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council. 988 topics, every one with a lesson, practice and a mastery check. This page is generated from the app itself, so it cannot say something the app does not contain.

Creche and Nursery 25 topics

Art 6 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Creche and Nursery: mark making.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Creche and Nursery: naming colours.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Creche and Nursery: using a brush.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Creche and Nursery: printing with objects.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Creche and Nursery: modelling.

and 1 more in Art this year.

Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Creche and Nursery: moving in different ways.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Creche and Nursery: getting warm and getting puffed.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Creche and Nursery: taking turns.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Creche and Nursery: safe playing.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Creche and Nursery: washing your hands.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Creche and Nursery: foods we eat.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Creche and Nursery: happy, sad, cross, tired.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Creche and Nursery: stop at the road.
Mathematics 3 topics
  • Count objects from 1 to 5 and match number names to quantities.
  • Identify basic colours and shapes and sort objects by one property.
  • Compare two sets of objects and identify which has more or fewer.
English 2 topics
  • Listen for and produce rhyming words and initial sounds.
  • Identify and match capital and small letters of the alphabet.
Handwriting 2 topics
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.
Music 2 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Creche and Nursery: clapping along.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Creche and Nursery: loud and quiet, high and low.
Science 1 topic
  • Identify parts of the body, family members, and safe and unsafe things.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

Kindergarten 28 topics

Art 6 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Kindergarten: mark making.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Kindergarten: naming colours.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Kindergarten: using a brush.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Kindergarten: printing with objects.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Kindergarten: modelling.

and 1 more in Art this year.

English 4 topics
  • Identify the final sound in simple spoken words.
  • Identify the medial vowel sound in simple spoken words.
  • Break spoken words into syllables and count them.
  • Identify letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent.
Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Kindergarten: moving in different ways, running, hopping and skipping.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Kindergarten: getting warm and getting puffed.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Kindergarten: taking turns.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Kindergarten: safe playing.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Kindergarten: washing your hands.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Kindergarten: foods we eat.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Kindergarten: happy, sad, cross, tired.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Kindergarten: stop at the road.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Kindergarten: my family and my home.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Kindergarten: where i live.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Kindergarten: rules at home and school.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Kindergarten: things we need every day.
Music 2 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Kindergarten: clapping along.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Kindergarten: loud and quiet, high and low.
Mathematics 1 topic
  • Count, read and write numbers from 1 to 20.
Science 1 topic
  • Distinguish between living and non-living things in the immediate environment.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.
Handwriting 1 topic
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.

Primary 1 66 topics

Reading 35 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 30 more in Reading this year.

Art 7 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Primary 1: mark making, drawing from life.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Primary 1: naming colours, primary and secondary.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Primary 1: using a brush, thick and thin paint.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Primary 1: printing with objects, repeating patterns.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Primary 1: modelling, joining and construction.

and 2 more in Art this year.

Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Primary 1: moving in different ways, running, hopping and skipping, throwing and catching, balance and coordination.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Primary 1: getting warm and getting puffed, warming up and cooling down.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Primary 1: taking turns, playing by the rules, winning and losing well.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Primary 1: safe playing, kit and footwear, checking the playing area.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Primary 1: washing your hands, washing and germs, teeth, sleep.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Primary 1: foods we eat, food groups, water and drinks.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Primary 1: happy, sad, cross, tired, naming feelings, calming down, asking for help.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Primary 1: stop at the road, road and water safety.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Primary 1: my family and my home, then and now.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Primary 1: where i live, maps and directions, continents and oceans.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Primary 1: rules at home and school, rules and laws.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Primary 1: things we need every day, needs and wants.
Handwriting 3 topics
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.
Computing 3 topics
  • Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Primary 1: giving exact instructions, debugging.
  • What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Primary 1: parts of a computer.
  • Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Primary 1: what is personal information, being decent online.
Music 2 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Primary 1: clapping along, finding the beat, rhythm patterns, high and low.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Primary 1: loud and quiet, high and low, instruments and families.
Science 1 topic
  • Identify the five senses and describe common materials using them.
Mathematics 1 topic
  • Add and subtract whole numbers up to 20 with and without objects.
English 1 topic
  • Read and recognise common words at sight in simple sentences.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

Primary 2 90 topics

Reading 43 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 38 more in Reading this year.

Art 7 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Primary 2: drawing from life, line and shape.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Primary 2: primary and secondary, mixing and matching.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Primary 2: using a brush, thick and thin paint.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Primary 2: printing with objects, repeating patterns.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Primary 2: modelling, joining and construction.

and 2 more in Art this year.

Mathematics 4 topics
  • Read, write and order whole numbers up to 100 using place value.
  • Add and subtract whole numbers up to 100, including simple money problems.
  • Identify and describe common plane and solid shapes in the environment.
  • Recognise and use Nigerian currency, tell the time, and measure length in metres and centimetres.
Handwriting 4 topics
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.
  • Form letters and numerals correctly, using the right strokes in the right order.
Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Primary 2: running, hopping and skipping, throwing and catching, balance and coordination.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Primary 2: warming up and cooling down.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Primary 2: playing by the rules, winning and losing well.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Primary 2: kit and footwear, checking the playing area.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Primary 2: washing and germs, teeth, sleep.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Primary 2: food groups, water and drinks.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Primary 2: naming feelings, calming down, asking for help.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Primary 2: road and water safety.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Primary 2: my family and my home, then and now.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Primary 2: where i live, maps and directions, continents and oceans.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Primary 2: rules at home and school, rules and laws.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Primary 2: things we need every day, needs and wants.
Computing 3 topics
  • Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Primary 2: giving exact instructions, loops, debugging.
  • What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Primary 2: parts of a computer.
  • Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Primary 2: passwords, what is personal information, being decent online.
Explore 2 topics
  • Understand that a machine follows instructions exactly, including the wrong ones.
  • Understand that illness can be caused by living things too small to see.
Quantitative reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
Verbal reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
Music 2 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Primary 2: finding the beat, rhythm patterns, high and low.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Primary 2: instruments and families.
English 1 topic
  • Identify and blend letter sounds to read and spell simple words.
Igbo 1 topic
  • Greet people and respond appropriately in Igbo.
Yoruba 1 topic
  • Greet people at different times of day and respond respectfully in Yoruba.
Hausa 1 topic
  • Greet people and respond appropriately in Hausa.
Spelling 1 topic
  • Spell words correctly from dictation and apply common spelling patterns.
Writing 1 topic
  • Write simple, complete sentences with correct capital letters and full stops.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.
Science 1 topic
  • Classify things as living or non-living and describe the needs of living things.
Drama 1 topic
  • Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Primary 2: being heard.

Primary 3 91 topics

Reading 45 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 40 more in Reading this year.

Art 9 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Primary 3: drawing from life, line and shape.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Primary 3: primary and secondary, mixing and matching, warm and cool.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Primary 3: thick and thin paint, backgrounds and layers.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Primary 3: repeating patterns, pattern in other cultures.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Primary 3: modelling, joining and construction.

and 4 more in Art this year.

Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Primary 3: running, hopping and skipping, throwing and catching, balance and coordination, gymnastic shapes and rolls.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Primary 3: warming up and cooling down, heart rate.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Primary 3: playing by the rules, winning and losing well.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Primary 3: kit and footwear, checking the playing area.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Primary 3: washing and germs, teeth, sleep.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Primary 3: food groups, water and drinks.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Primary 3: naming feelings, calming down, worry, asking for help.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Primary 3: road and water safety, medicines.
Computing 4 topics
  • Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Primary 3: giving exact instructions, loops, debugging.
  • What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Primary 3: parts of a computer.
  • Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Primary 3: passwords, what is personal information, being decent online.
  • Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Primary 3: making a program.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Primary 3: then and now.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Primary 3: maps and directions, continents and oceans.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Primary 3: rules and laws.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Primary 3: needs and wants.
Mathematics 3 topics
  • Multiply whole numbers using repeated addition and equal groups.
  • Identify halves, quarters and thirds of a whole and of a set.
  • Measure weight and capacity using standard units and solve simple problems.
Explore 2 topics
  • Understand that a computer stores everything using only two states.
  • Understand why a rule agreed in advance is fairer than one decided afterwards.
Quantitative reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
Verbal reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
Music 2 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Primary 3: finding the beat, rhythm patterns, high and low.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Primary 3: instruments and families.
Drama 2 topics
  • Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Primary 3: being heard.
  • Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At Primary 3: reading a script, improvising.
English 1 topic
  • Recognise and use nouns, verbs and adjectives in simple sentences.
Igbo 1 topic
  • Count from one to ten in Igbo and use the numbers in simple phrases.
Yoruba 1 topic
  • Count from one to ten in Yoruba.
Hausa 1 topic
  • Count from one to ten in Hausa.
Spelling 1 topic
  • Spell words correctly from dictation and apply common spelling patterns.
Writing 1 topic
  • Write a short composition narrating events in the correct order.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.
Science 1 topic
  • Describe the properties and uses of air, water and soil in the environment.

Primary 4 100 topics

Reading 51 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 46 more in Reading this year.

Art 9 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Primary 4: drawing from life, line and shape, tone and shading.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Primary 4: mixing and matching, warm and cool, tints and shades.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Primary 4: thick and thin paint, backgrounds and layers, brush marks.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Primary 4: repeating patterns, relief printing, pattern in other cultures.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Primary 4: joining and construction.

and 4 more in Art this year.

Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Primary 4: running, hopping and skipping, throwing and catching, balance and coordination, striking and dribbling, gymnastic shapes and rolls.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Primary 4: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, rest, water and recovery.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Primary 4: playing by the rules, team positions, attacking and defending, winning and losing well.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Primary 4: kit and footwear, checking the playing area, common injuries, heat, cold and water.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Primary 4: washing and germs, teeth, sleep, illness and immunity.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Primary 4: food groups, vitamins and minerals, water and drinks, food safety, allergies.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Primary 4: naming feelings, calming down, worry, friendship and falling out, asking for help.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Primary 4: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, fire and emergencies, medicines.
Computing 4 topics
  • Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Primary 4: giving exact instructions, loops, conditions, variables, debugging.
  • What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Primary 4: parts of a computer, binary, files and storage.
  • Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Primary 4: passwords, what is personal information, scams and phishing, being decent online.
  • Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Primary 4: documents, making a program, images and sound.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Primary 4: then and now, sources, cause and consequence, local history.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Primary 4: maps and directions, continents and oceans, climate and weather.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Primary 4: rules and laws, rights and responsibilities.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Primary 4: needs and wants, jobs and industries, buying, selling and trade, saving and budgeting.
Mathematics 3 topics
  • Express fractions as decimals and percentages, and solve everyday problems involving them.
  • Multiply whole numbers by two-digit numbers and apply this to everyday problems.
  • Calculate the perimeter and area of squares and rectangles.
Music 3 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Primary 4: finding the beat, rhythm patterns, high and low, loud, quiet, fast, slow.
  • How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At Primary 4: note values, the stave and clefs, writing your own.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Primary 4: instruments and families, music from many places, verse, chorus and structure.
Drama 3 topics
  • Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Primary 4: being heard, pace and pause, movement and stillness, staying in character.
  • Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At Primary 4: reading a script, building a character, improvising.
  • Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At Primary 4: the stage, set, props and costume.
Explore 2 topics
  • Understand how a message can be hidden, and why some codes are easy to break.
  • Understand that a structure holds because of its shape, before its material.
Quantitative reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
Verbal reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
English 1 topic
  • Read a passage and state the main idea, supported by details from the passage.
French 1 topic
  • Use simple French greetings and introduce oneself.
Igbo 1 topic
  • Name family members in Igbo and say who they are to you.
Yoruba 1 topic
  • Name family members in Yoruba and use respectful forms.
Hausa 1 topic
  • Name family members in Hausa.
Spelling 1 topic
  • Spell words correctly from dictation and apply common spelling patterns.
Science 1 topic
  • Describe the sources and effects of light and sound energy.
Writing 1 topic
  • Write compositions organised in paragraphs with a clear main idea.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

Primary 5 105 topics

Reading 49 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 44 more in Reading this year.

Art 9 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Primary 5: line and shape, tone and shading, perspective.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Primary 5: mixing and matching, warm and cool, tints and shades, colour and feeling.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Primary 5: backgrounds and layers, brush marks.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Primary 5: relief printing, pattern in other cultures.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Primary 5: joining and construction, carving and casting.

and 4 more in Art this year.

Mathematics 5 topics
  • Find equivalent fractions and compare fractions with different denominators.
  • Divide whole numbers by one-digit and two-digit numbers and interpret remainders.
  • Calculate the volume of cubes and cuboids and relate it to capacity.
  • Find factors and multiples of whole numbers and share quantities in a given ratio.
  • Collect, record and interpret simple data, and describe chance events.
Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Primary 5: throwing and catching, balance and coordination, striking and dribbling, agility and reaction, gymnastic shapes and rolls.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Primary 5: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, rest, water and recovery.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Primary 5: playing by the rules, team positions, attacking and defending, winning and losing well.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Primary 5: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries, heat, cold and water.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Primary 5: teeth, sleep, illness and immunity, growing and changing.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Primary 5: vitamins and minerals, water and drinks, reading a label, food safety, allergies.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Primary 5: naming feelings, calming down, worry, friendship and falling out, screens and comparison, asking for help.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Primary 5: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, fire and emergencies, medicines.
Computing 4 topics
  • Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Primary 5: loops, conditions, variables, debugging.
  • What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Primary 5: binary, files and storage, networks and the internet.
  • Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Primary 5: passwords, scams and phishing, judging what you read, being decent online.
  • Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Primary 5: documents, spreadsheets, making a program, images and sound.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Primary 5: sources, cause and consequence, local history.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Primary 5: latitude, longitude and time zones, climate and weather, rivers, coasts and landforms.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Primary 5: rights and responsibilities, how a country is run.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Primary 5: jobs and industries, buying, selling and trade, saving and budgeting.
Music 3 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Primary 5: high and low, loud, quiet, fast, slow, scales and octaves.
  • How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At Primary 5: note values, the stave and clefs, time signatures, writing your own.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Primary 5: music from many places, verse, chorus and structure, music with pictures.
Drama 3 topics
  • Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Primary 5: being heard, pace and pause, movement and stillness, staying in character, when it goes wrong.
  • Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At Primary 5: reading a script, building a character, improvising.
  • Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At Primary 5: the stage, light and sound, set, props and costume.
Explore 2 topics
  • Understand what a rule is, who makes law, and what fairness means in practice.
  • Understand how the body defends itself and how doctors find out what is wrong.
Quantitative reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
Verbal reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
Exam technique 2 topics
  • Manage time and question order under examination conditions.
  • Sit a full practice paper for National Common Entrance under time.
Igbo 2 topics
  • Use Igbo vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
  • Use Igbo vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Yoruba 2 topics
  • Use Yoruba vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
  • Use Yoruba vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Hausa 2 topics
  • Use Hausa vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
  • Use Hausa vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
English 1 topic
  • Apply capital letters, full stops, question marks and commas correctly in writing.
French 1 topic
  • Use numbers, colours and days of the week in simple French expressions.
Spelling 1 topic
  • Spell words correctly from dictation and apply common spelling patterns.
Science 1 topic
  • Describe force, friction and simple machines in everyday use.
Writing 1 topic
  • Write informal and formal letters using the correct format.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

Primary 6 98 topics

Reading 44 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 39 more in Reading this year.

Art 9 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Primary 6: tone and shading, perspective, observational study.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Primary 6: warm and cool, tints and shades, colour and feeling.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Primary 6: backgrounds and layers, brush marks, working from a study.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Primary 6: relief printing, pattern in other cultures.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Primary 6: carving and casting, working to a brief.

and 4 more in Art this year.

Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Primary 6: striking and dribbling, agility and reaction, gymnastic shapes and rolls.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Primary 6: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, rest, water and recovery.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Primary 6: playing by the rules, team positions, attacking and defending, winning and losing well, officiating a game yourself.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Primary 6: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries, heat, cold and water.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Primary 6: sleep, illness and immunity, growing and changing.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Primary 6: vitamins and minerals, water and drinks, reading a label, food safety, allergies.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Primary 6: naming feelings, calming down, worry, friendship and falling out, screens and comparison, asking for help.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Primary 6: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, fire and emergencies, medicines.
Computing 4 topics
  • Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Primary 6: loops, conditions, variables, debugging.
  • What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Primary 6: binary, files and storage, networks and the internet.
  • Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Primary 6: passwords, scams and phishing, judging what you read, being decent online.
  • Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Primary 6: documents, spreadsheets, making a program, images and sound.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Primary 6: sources, cause and consequence, local history.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Primary 6: latitude, longitude and time zones, climate and weather, rivers, coasts and landforms.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Primary 6: rights and responsibilities, how a country is run.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Primary 6: jobs and industries, buying, selling and trade, saving and budgeting.
Mathematics 3 topics
  • Solve problems involving percentages, discount, profit and loss.
  • Apply the correct order of operations, including the use of brackets.
  • Use letters to represent unknown numbers and solve simple open sentences.
Music 3 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Primary 6: loud, quiet, fast, slow, scales and octaves.
  • How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At Primary 6: note values, the stave and clefs, time signatures, writing your own.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Primary 6: music from many places, verse, chorus and structure, music with pictures.
Drama 3 topics
  • Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Primary 6: being heard, pace and pause, movement and stillness, staying in character, when it goes wrong.
  • Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At Primary 6: reading a script, building a character, improvising.
  • Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At Primary 6: the stage, light and sound, set, props and costume.
Explore 2 topics
  • Understand what an AI actually does, and why it can be confidently wrong.
  • Meet the idea that the very small behaves by different rules.
Quantitative reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
Verbal reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
Exam technique 2 topics
  • Read a question accurately and answer what was actually asked.
  • Sit a full practice paper for National Common Entrance under time.
Igbo 2 topics
  • Use Igbo vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
  • Use Igbo vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Yoruba 2 topics
  • Use Yoruba vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
  • Use Yoruba vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Hausa 2 topics
  • Use Hausa vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
  • Use Hausa vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
English 1 topic
  • Summarise a passage in your own words, retaining the main points.
French 1 topic
  • Conjugate and use être and avoir in the present tense.
Spelling 1 topic
  • Spell words correctly from dictation and apply common spelling patterns.
Science 1 topic
  • Identify states of matter and describe physical and chemical changes.
Writing 1 topic
  • Write argumentative compositions supporting a point of view with reasons.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

JSS 1 88 topics

Reading 35 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 30 more in Reading this year.

Art 9 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at JSS 1: tone and shading, perspective, observational study.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at JSS 1: tints and shades, colour and feeling.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at JSS 1: brush marks, working from a study.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at JSS 1: relief printing, pattern in other cultures.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at JSS 1: carving and casting, working to a brief.

and 4 more in Art this year.

Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At JSS 1: agility and reaction.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At JSS 1: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, planning your own training.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At JSS 1: playing by the rules, attacking and defending, tactics and set plays, winning and losing well, officiating a game yourself.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At JSS 1: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At JSS 1: sleep, illness and immunity, growing and changing.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At JSS 1: water and drinks, reading a label, allergies.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At JSS 1: naming feelings, calming down, worry, screens and comparison, asking for help.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At JSS 1: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, when somebody is unconscious, medicines.
Computing 4 topics
  • Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At JSS 1: variables, debugging, breaking a problem up.
  • What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At JSS 1: binary, networks and the internet, how a search engine works.
  • Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At JSS 1: passwords, judging what you read, being decent online, what a free app costs.
  • Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At JSS 1: spreadsheets, making a program, using other people’s work, making it usable by everybody.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At JSS 1: cause and consequence, bias and interpretation.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At JSS 1: latitude, longitude and time zones, rivers, coasts and landforms, people and places.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At JSS 1: how a country is run, taxes and public services, having a say.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At JSS 1: buying, selling and trade, why prices change.
Mathematics 3 topics
  • Perform the four basic operations on positive and negative integers.
  • Identify and calculate angles at a point, on a line, and in plane shapes.
  • Calculate mean, median, mode and range, and interpret data presented in charts.
Music 3 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At JSS 1: scales and octaves, syncopation.
  • How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At JSS 1: the stave and clefs, time signatures, sharps, flats and keys.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At JSS 1: verse, chorus and structure, improvising, music with pictures.
Drama 3 topics
  • Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At JSS 1: being heard, staying in character, when it goes wrong.
  • Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At JSS 1: conflict and status, improvising, monologue and soliloquy.
  • Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At JSS 1: light and sound, rehearsal, working backstage.
Business studies 3 topics
  • What a business is, who owns it, and why most of them close in the first two years. At JSS 1: types of business, costs, revenue and profit, customers and competition.
  • Writing down what happened to the money so that somebody else can check it. At JSS 1: keeping records, assets, liabilities and equity.
  • Banking, credit, tax, and what it takes to start something of your own. At JSS 1: banking and cards, interest and inflation, budgeting and saving, starting a business.
Quantitative reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
Verbal reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
Explore 1 topic
  • Explain how immune memory works and what a vaccine actually contains.
Physics 1 topic
  • Identify types of force, and relate force to change in the motion of a body.
Chemistry 1 topic
  • Describe matter in terms of particles, and classify substances as elements, compounds or mixtures.
Biology 1 topic
  • Identify the cell as the basic unit of living things and describe its main parts.
Exam technique 1 topic
  • Use estimation and elimination to answer objective questions efficiently.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.
English 1 topic
  • Read a passage and infer meaning that is implied rather than stated.
Writing 1 topic
  • Write a composition with an introduction, developed body paragraphs and a conclusion.
Igbo 1 topic
  • Use Igbo vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Yoruba 1 topic
  • Use Yoruba vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Hausa 1 topic
  • Use Hausa vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
French 1 topic
  • Use basic French vocabulary and expressions in familiar contexts.

JSS 2 89 topics

Reading 35 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 30 more in Reading this year.

Art 8 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at JSS 2: perspective, observational study.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at JSS 2: colour and feeling.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at JSS 2: working from a study.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at JSS 2: pattern in other cultures.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at JSS 2: carving and casting, working to a brief.

and 3 more in Art this year.

Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At JSS 2: agility and reaction.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At JSS 2: warming up and cooling down, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, planning your own training.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At JSS 2: playing by the rules, attacking and defending, tactics and set plays, winning and losing well, officiating a game yourself.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At JSS 2: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At JSS 2: sleep, illness and immunity, growing and changing.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At JSS 2: water and drinks, reading a label, allergies.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At JSS 2: naming feelings, calming down, worry, screens and comparison, asking for help.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At JSS 2: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, when somebody is unconscious, medicines.
Computing 4 topics
  • Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At JSS 2: variables, debugging, breaking a problem up.
  • What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At JSS 2: binary, networks and the internet, how a search engine works.
  • Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At JSS 2: passwords, judging what you read, being decent online, what a free app costs.
  • Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At JSS 2: spreadsheets, making a program, using other people’s work, making it usable by everybody.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At JSS 2: cause and consequence, bias and interpretation.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At JSS 2: latitude, longitude and time zones, rivers, coasts and landforms, people and places.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At JSS 2: how a country is run, taxes and public services, having a say.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At JSS 2: buying, selling and trade, why prices change.
Exam technique 3 topics
  • Prepare for and sit an examination without losing marks to panic.
  • Sit a full practice paper for Basic Education Certificate (Mathematics) under time.
  • Sit a full practice paper for Basic Education Certificate (English Studies) under time.
Mathematics 3 topics
  • Solve simple linear equations in one variable, including those involving brackets and fractions.
  • Solve problems on percentage increase and decrease, simple and compound interest.
  • Find the nth term of a linear sequence and use it to determine any term.
Music 3 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At JSS 2: scales and octaves, syncopation.
  • How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At JSS 2: the stave and clefs, time signatures, sharps, flats and keys.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At JSS 2: verse, chorus and structure, improvising, music with pictures.
Drama 3 topics
  • Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At JSS 2: being heard, staying in character, when it goes wrong.
  • Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At JSS 2: conflict and status, improvising, monologue and soliloquy.
  • Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At JSS 2: light and sound, rehearsal, working backstage.
Business studies 3 topics
  • What a business is, who owns it, and why most of them close in the first two years. At JSS 2: types of business, costs, revenue and profit, break-even, customers and competition, cash flow.
  • Writing down what happened to the money so that somebody else can check it. At JSS 2: keeping records, assets, liabilities and equity, double entry, income statement and balance sheet.
  • Banking, credit, tax, and what it takes to start something of your own. At JSS 2: banking and cards, interest and inflation, budgeting and saving, tax, starting a business.
Quantitative reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
Verbal reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
Explore 1 topic
  • Explain an orbit as continuous falling, and why weightlessness is not absence of gravity.
Physics 1 topic
  • Identify forms of energy and describe transformations from one form to another.
Chemistry 1 topic
  • Differentiate between physical and chemical changes, and identify evidence of a chemical reaction.
Biology 1 topic
  • Describe the structure and function of the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.
English 1 topic
  • Identify figures of speech in a text and explain their effect.
Writing 1 topic
  • Write a clear report using appropriate register, headings and factual detail.
Igbo 1 topic
  • Use Igbo vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Yoruba 1 topic
  • Use Yoruba vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Hausa 1 topic
  • Use Hausa vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
French 1 topic
  • Use basic French vocabulary and expressions in familiar contexts.

JSS 3 87 topics

Reading 27 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 22 more in Reading this year.

Art 8 topics
  • Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at JSS 3: observational study.
  • How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at JSS 3: colour and feeling.
  • Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at JSS 3: working from a study.
  • Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at JSS 3: pattern in other cultures.
  • Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at JSS 3: working to a brief.

and 3 more in Art this year.

Economics 5 topics
  • Who makes what, who does the work, and why some countries are richer than others. At JSS 3: factors of production, division of labour, productivity, why countries differ, work and wages.
  • The single idea the subject rests on, and how prices come out of it. At JSS 3: scarcity and choice, supply and demand, shortages and surpluses, competition and monopoly, when governments intervene.
  • What money is for, and why the same note buys less every year. At JSS 3: what money does, why prices rise, saving and borrowing.
  • The habit the whole subject is for: working out which option is actually better. At JSS 3: weighing two options, reading an economic chart, averages and people, checking a claim about the economy.
  • What the headline numbers measure, and what they leave out. At JSS 3: what gdp measures, inflation and unemployment, trade between countries, interest rates, development.
Physical education 4 topics
  • The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At JSS 3: agility and reaction.
  • What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At JSS 3: warming up and cooling down, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, planning your own training.
  • How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At JSS 3: playing by the rules, attacking and defending, tactics and set plays, winning and losing well, officiating a game yourself.
  • The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At JSS 3: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries.
Health 4 topics
  • Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At JSS 3: sleep, illness and immunity.
  • What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At JSS 3: water and drinks, reading a label, allergies.
  • Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At JSS 3: naming feelings, calming down, worry, screens and comparison, asking for help.
  • What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At JSS 3: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, when somebody is unconscious, medicines.
Computing 4 topics
  • Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At JSS 3: variables, debugging, breaking a problem up.
  • What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At JSS 3: binary, networks and the internet, how a search engine works.
  • Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At JSS 3: passwords, judging what you read, being decent online, what a free app costs.
  • Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At JSS 3: spreadsheets, making a program, using other people’s work, making it usable by everybody.
Social studies 4 topics
  • What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At JSS 3: cause and consequence, bias and interpretation.
  • Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At JSS 3: latitude, longitude and time zones, rivers, coasts and landforms, people and places.
  • How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At JSS 3: how a country is run, taxes and public services, having a say.
  • How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At JSS 3: buying, selling and trade, why prices change.
Exam technique 3 topics
  • Plan revision and sit the BECE using timing, reading and elimination together.
  • Sit a full practice paper for Basic Education Certificate (Mathematics) under time.
  • Sit a full practice paper for Basic Education Certificate (English Studies) under time.
Mathematics 3 topics
  • Apply Pythagoras' theorem to solve problems involving right-angled triangles.
  • Apply the laws of indices in simplifying expressions and evaluate square roots.
  • Draw and interpret graphs of linear equations in two variables.
Music 3 topics
  • The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At JSS 3: scales and octaves, syncopation.
  • How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At JSS 3: the stave and clefs, time signatures, sharps, flats and keys.
  • Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At JSS 3: verse, chorus and structure, improvising, music with pictures.
Drama 3 topics
  • Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At JSS 3: being heard, staying in character, when it goes wrong.
  • Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At JSS 3: conflict and status, improvising, monologue and soliloquy.
  • Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At JSS 3: light and sound, rehearsal, working backstage.
Business studies 3 topics
  • What a business is, who owns it, and why most of them close in the first two years. At JSS 3: types of business, costs, revenue and profit, break-even, customers and competition, cash flow.
  • Writing down what happened to the money so that somebody else can check it. At JSS 3: keeping records, assets, liabilities and equity, double entry, income statement and balance sheet, checking the books.
  • Banking, credit, tax, and what it takes to start something of your own. At JSS 3: banking and cards, interest and inflation, budgeting and saving, tax, starting a business.
Explore 2 topics
  • Recognise how averages, axes and sampling can be used to mislead honestly.
  • Describe how a message is split, addressed, routed and reassembled across a network.
Quantitative reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
  • Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
Verbal reasoning 2 topics
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
  • Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
Physics 1 topic
  • Construct simple electrical circuits and distinguish between series and parallel arrangements.
Chemistry 1 topic
  • Identify acids, bases and salts, test them with indicators, and explain neutralisation reactions.
Biology 1 topic
  • Describe feeding relationships in an ecosystem and explain the effects of human activity on them.
Brain teasers 1 topic
  • Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.
English 1 topic
  • Evaluate a persuasive text, identifying the writer’s purpose, evidence and bias.
Writing 1 topic
  • Write a narrative composition with a clear plot, developed characters and effective description.
Igbo 1 topic
  • Use Igbo vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Yoruba 1 topic
  • Use Yoruba vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
Hausa 1 topic
  • Use Hausa vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.
French 1 topic
  • Use basic French vocabulary and expressions in familiar contexts.

SSS 1 47 topics

Reading 25 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 20 more in Reading this year.

Mathematics 8 topics
  • Years 10 to 12: solving x² equations by factorising, and what the two answers mean on the graph. At SSS 1: factorising a quadratic, solving by factorising.
  • Years 10 to 12: two unknowns and two facts, solved together and then checked. At SSS 1: solving by elimination, solving by substitution, checking the pair.
  • Years 10 to 12: sine, cosine and tangent, and the two triangles the exact values come from. At SSS 1: the three ratios, exact values, finding a missing side.
  • Years 10 to 12: finding any term without listing the ones before it, and summing a run of them. At SSS 1: the nth term of an arithmetic sequence.
  • Years 10 to 12: reading a line off two points, and writing the equation that describes it. At SSS 1: gradient from two points, the equation of a line.

and 3 more in Mathematics this year.

Art 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: sustained personal projects, working to a brief, and writing about art as well as making it. Working at SSS 1: a sustained project, working to a set brief, critical study.
Physical education 1 topic
  • Senior work: leading a session, officiating a game, and analysing performance with numbers rather than impressions. At SSS 1: planning a session, officiating properly, analysing performance, training principles.
Health 1 topic
  • Senior work: how health is measured across a population, and what actually changes it. At SSS 1: public health, reading health claims, long-term conditions.
Computing 1 topic
  • Senior work: writing real programs, storing data properly, and the ethics that come with both. At SSS 1: data structures, databases, algorithms and efficiency, testing and validation.
Social studies 1 topic
  • Senior work: history and geography as arguments made from evidence, and how a state actually functions. At SSS 1: writing a historical argument, population and development, systems of government.
Music 1 topic
  • Senior work: analysing a set piece, composing to a brief, and performing prepared repertoire. At SSS 1: analysing a set work, composing to a brief, performing prepared music.
Drama 1 topic
  • Senior work: devising, directing, and writing about performance as well as making it. At SSS 1: devising, directing, practitioners and styles, writing about performance.
Business studies 1 topic
  • Senior work: reading real accounts, planning marketing, and judging a decision on the numbers. At SSS 1: ratio analysis, budgeting and forecasting, marketing.
Economics 1 topic
  • Senior work: markets that fail, policy that tries to fix them, and the trade-offs in both. At SSS 1: market failure, fiscal and monetary policy, international trade.
English 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: whole texts read closely, arguments built and defended, and writing under examination conditions. At SSS 1: studying a whole text, poetry comparison, unseen texts, literary technique, building an essay argument, using evidence, writing to time, spoken language.
Writing 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: sustained writing that holds an argument, and writing to a specification. At SSS 1: the extended essay, writing to a specification, editing at length.
Physics 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: motion, energy and electricity treated quantitatively, with the equations that go with them. At SSS 1: equations of motion, newton’s laws, electric circuits, quantitatively.
Chemistry 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: the mole, equations that balance, and reactions predicted rather than remembered. At SSS 1: balanced equations, bonding, energy in reactions.
Biology 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: cells, inheritance and systems, at the level examinations at sixteen and eighteen ask for. At SSS 1: cell division, dna and inheritance, enzymes, respiration and photosynthesis.

SSS 2 42 topics

Reading 20 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 15 more in Reading this year.

Mathematics 8 topics
  • Years 10 to 12: solving x² equations by factorising, and what the two answers mean on the graph. At SSS 2: factorising a quadratic, solving by factorising, the graph of a quadratic.
  • Years 10 to 12: two unknowns and two facts, solved together and then checked. At SSS 2: solving by elimination, solving by substitution, checking the pair.
  • Years 10 to 12: sine, cosine and tangent, and the two triangles the exact values come from. At SSS 2: the three ratios, exact values, finding a missing side, finding a missing angle.
  • Years 10 to 12: finding any term without listing the ones before it, and summing a run of them. At SSS 2: the nth term of an arithmetic sequence, geometric sequences, summing a series.
  • Years 10 to 12: reading a line off two points, and writing the equation that describes it. At SSS 2: gradient from two points, the equation of a line, parallel and perpendicular, functions and transformations.

and 3 more in Mathematics this year.

Art 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: sustained personal projects, working to a brief, and writing about art as well as making it. Working at SSS 2: a sustained project, working to a set brief, critical study, preparing a portfolio.
Physical education 1 topic
  • Senior work: leading a session, officiating a game, and analysing performance with numbers rather than impressions. At SSS 2: planning a session, officiating properly, analysing performance, training principles, sport and society.
Health 1 topic
  • Senior work: how health is measured across a population, and what actually changes it. At SSS 2: public health, reading health claims, long-term conditions, health services.
Computing 1 topic
  • Senior work: writing real programs, storing data properly, and the ethics that come with both. At SSS 2: data structures, databases, algorithms and efficiency, testing and validation, computing and society.
Social studies 1 topic
  • Senior work: history and geography as arguments made from evidence, and how a state actually functions. At SSS 2: writing a historical argument, population and development, systems of government, global institutions.
Music 1 topic
  • Senior work: analysing a set piece, composing to a brief, and performing prepared repertoire. At SSS 2: analysing a set work, composing to a brief, performing prepared music, music technology.
Drama 1 topic
  • Senior work: devising, directing, and writing about performance as well as making it. At SSS 2: devising, directing, practitioners and styles, writing about performance.
Business studies 1 topic
  • Senior work: reading real accounts, planning marketing, and judging a decision on the numbers. At SSS 2: ratio analysis, budgeting and forecasting, marketing, employment and ethics.
Economics 1 topic
  • Senior work: markets that fail, policy that tries to fix them, and the trade-offs in both. At SSS 2: market failure, fiscal and monetary policy, international trade, development economics.
English 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: whole texts read closely, arguments built and defended, and writing under examination conditions. At SSS 2: studying a whole text, poetry comparison, unseen texts, literary technique, building an essay argument, using evidence, context, writing to time, spoken language.
Writing 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: sustained writing that holds an argument, and writing to a specification. At SSS 2: the extended essay, writing to a specification, referencing, editing at length.
Physics 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: motion, energy and electricity treated quantitatively, with the equations that go with them. At SSS 2: equations of motion, newton’s laws, momentum, electric circuits, quantitatively, waves and optics, radioactivity.
Chemistry 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: the mole, equations that balance, and reactions predicted rather than remembered. At SSS 2: balanced equations, the mole, bonding, energy in reactions, electrolysis, organic chemistry.
Biology 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: cells, inheritance and systems, at the level examinations at sixteen and eighteen ask for. At SSS 2: cell division, dna and inheritance, enzymes, homeostasis, respiration and photosynthesis, natural selection, quantitatively.

SSS 3 32 topics

Reading 9 topics
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
  • Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

and 4 more in Reading this year.

Mathematics 9 topics
  • Years 10 to 12: solving x² equations by factorising, and what the two answers mean on the graph. At SSS 3: solving by factorising, the graph of a quadratic.
  • Years 10 to 12: two unknowns and two facts, solved together and then checked. At SSS 3: checking the pair.
  • Years 10 to 12: sine, cosine and tangent, and the two triangles the exact values come from. At SSS 3: the three ratios, exact values, finding a missing side, finding a missing angle.
  • Years 10 to 12: finding any term without listing the ones before it, and summing a run of them. At SSS 3: geometric sequences, summing a series.
  • Years 10 to 12: reading a line off two points, and writing the equation that describes it. At SSS 3: the equation of a line, parallel and perpendicular, functions and transformations.

and 4 more in Mathematics this year.

Art 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: sustained personal projects, working to a brief, and writing about art as well as making it. Working at SSS 3: a sustained project, working to a set brief, critical study, preparing a portfolio, exhibiting.
Physical education 1 topic
  • Senior work: leading a session, officiating a game, and analysing performance with numbers rather than impressions. At SSS 3: planning a session, officiating properly, analysing performance, training principles, sport and society.
Health 1 topic
  • Senior work: how health is measured across a population, and what actually changes it. At SSS 3: public health, reading health claims, long-term conditions, health services.
Computing 1 topic
  • Senior work: writing real programs, storing data properly, and the ethics that come with both. At SSS 3: data structures, databases, algorithms and efficiency, testing and validation, computing and society.
Social studies 1 topic
  • Senior work: history and geography as arguments made from evidence, and how a state actually functions. At SSS 3: writing a historical argument, population and development, systems of government, global institutions.
Music 1 topic
  • Senior work: analysing a set piece, composing to a brief, and performing prepared repertoire. At SSS 3: analysing a set work, composing to a brief, performing prepared music, music technology.
Drama 1 topic
  • Senior work: devising, directing, and writing about performance as well as making it. At SSS 3: devising, directing, practitioners and styles, writing about performance.
Business studies 1 topic
  • Senior work: reading real accounts, planning marketing, and judging a decision on the numbers. At SSS 3: ratio analysis, budgeting and forecasting, marketing, employment and ethics.
Economics 1 topic
  • Senior work: markets that fail, policy that tries to fix them, and the trade-offs in both. At SSS 3: market failure, fiscal and monetary policy, international trade, development economics.
English 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: whole texts read closely, arguments built and defended, and writing under examination conditions. At SSS 3: studying a whole text, unseen texts, literary technique, building an essay argument, using evidence, context, writing to time.
Writing 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: sustained writing that holds an argument, and writing to a specification. At SSS 3: the extended essay, writing to a specification, referencing, editing at length.
Physics 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: motion, energy and electricity treated quantitatively, with the equations that go with them. At SSS 3: equations of motion, newton’s laws, momentum, electric circuits, quantitatively, waves and optics, radioactivity.
Chemistry 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: the mole, equations that balance, and reactions predicted rather than remembered. At SSS 3: balanced equations, the mole, bonding, energy in reactions, electrolysis, organic chemistry.
Biology 1 topic
  • Years 10 to 12: cells, inheritance and systems, at the level examinations at sixteen and eighteen ask for. At SSS 3: cell division, dna and inheritance, enzymes, homeostasis, respiration and photosynthesis, natural selection, quantitatively.

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