A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Music, KS2, Instrumental Lessons: Indonesia.
This resource is designed to support pupils as they explore traditional Indonesian gamelan music through instrumental practice. It introduces key musical vocabulary including gamelan, gong, metallophone, slendro, and octave, and explains how gamelan melodies follow a cyclical 8-note pattern. Pupils learn about the slendro scale—a pentatonic system where each pitch is numbered 1 to 5—and how different instruments play variations of the same tune using varying octaves and rhythms. This organiser also supports visual learning with labelled images of gamelan instruments and maps showing the musical origins in Java and Bali, helping pupils build cultural and musical awareness through hands-on experience.
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Computing, Year 5, Programming 1: Music.
This resource is designed to support the children as they explore programming music using Scratch. It highlights key vocabulary and concepts, including loops, sprites and code blocks, alongside musical terms such as rhythm, pitch, tempo and timbre. The resource explains Scratch’s visual coding interface and is perfect for consolidating essential knowledge and developing both coding and musical creativity through hands-on programming tasks. There are also connections to the Upper Key Stage 2 Music lessons.
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit French, Year 4, Food — Miam Miam.
This resource is designed to support pupils as they learn French vocabulary related to food, drink, and eating out. It highlights key nouns such as la soupe, une crêpe, le fromage, un croque-monsieur, and un jus d’orange, as well as useful expressions. Pupils also explore related vocabulary for French shops—la boulangerie, la chocolaterie, le marché—and practise polite conversation with phrases such as s’il vous plaît, merci, and voilà. It is ideal for reinforcing food-related vocabulary and encouraging culturally relevant speaking and listening skills in real-life contexts.
Knowledge organiser for the Year 4 French lessons on French weather and the water cycle, capturing the essential knowledge and skills learned throughout the unit.
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit French, Year 4, Numbers, Calendars and Birthdays.
This resource is designed to support pupils as they develop their use of French numbers, days of the week, and months of the year, leading to discussions about birthdays. It highlights vocabulary such as lundi (Monday), janvier (January), and numbers from un (one) to trente-et-un (thirty-one), alongside sentence structures including C’est quand, ton anniversaire ? (When is your birthday?) and Je voudrais … (I would like …). Pupils also learn to form full date expressions and express birthday wishes, building confidence in practical language use around calendars and celebrations.
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit French, Year 4, Clothes.
This unit is designed to support pupils as they learn to name items of clothing in French and describe them using appropriate sentence structures. It highlights key vocabulary while introducing useful expressions like il porte/elle porte (he/she is wearing), j’aime (I like), and je n’aime pas (I don’t like). The unit explains how to match colour adjectives to nouns by gender and number, and how to use articles such as un, une, and des. It is ideal for reinforcing vocabulary, grammar rules, and confident sentence-building when describing clothing in French.
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit French, Year 4, Portraits.
This resource is designed to support pupils as they describe physical features and personality traits in French. It highlights key vocabulary such as les yeux (eyes), les cheveux châtains (brown hair), and adjectives like fort(e) (strong), sportif/sportive (sporty), heureux/heureuse (happy), and sérieux/sérieuse (serious). Pupils also learn sentence structures including il/elle a… (he/she has…) and il/elle est… (he/she is…), and explore how adjectives agree with gender. The unit includes cultural references like the Louvre Museum and supports the development of sentence-building and spoken fluency through scaffolded phrases and visual prompts.
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit French, Year 3, Circle of Life.
This resource is designed to support pupils as they explore vocabulary related to animals and their habitats in French. It highlights key nouns, as well as environments. Pupils also learn how to construct and modify simple sentences using definite and indefinite articles (le, la, un, une), form plurals with les, and create negative statements using ne … pas. It is ideal for consolidating essential vocabulary and building confidence in forming complete sentences to describe animals and their environments.
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit French, Year 3, Unit 5: French transport.
This resource is designed to support pupils as they learn vocabulary and sentence structures related to different modes of transport in French. It highlights key nouns such as un train, un avion, une voiture, un bateau, and à pied, as well as useful expressions including Je vais à Paris (I am going to Paris) and Je vais en avion (I am going by plane). Pupils also explore grammatical structures such as the verb aller (to go), question forms like Tu y vas comment ? (How will you get there?), and the correct use of en vs à depending on the mode of transport. It is ideal for consolidating topic-specific vocabulary and building confidence in constructing simple spoken and written sentences.
