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Stage 6 Member

MathsEnglish

The Recipe for Forty

Cooking for a crowd, Tryphonia learns to scale a recipe up using ratio.

Ratio and proportion (scaling a recipe)Read

Stage 6 Member

English

The Poem in the Storm

Writing about a storm, Tryphonia learns how similes and metaphors make words come alive.

Figurative language, similes and metaphorsRead

Stage 3 Member

MathsEnglish

The Fair-Share Picnic

Sharing a picnic pizza, Emily learns what halves and quarters really mean.

Fractions, halves and quartersRead

Stage 3 Member

ScienceEnglish

The Great Swing Push

At the playground, Emily discovers that every move is a push or a pull.

Forces, pushes and pullsRead

Stage 3 Member

MathsEnglish

The Shape of the Lantern

Making paper lanterns, Emily learns to tell flat 2D shapes from solid 3D shapes.

Naming 2D and 3D shapes and their properties (faces, edges, corners)Read

Stage 6 Member

ScienceEnglish

The Two Lantern Paths

Wiring the festival lanterns, Tryphonia discovers why one broken bulb sometimes darkens them all, and sometimes does not.

Simple electric circuits: series and parallelRead

Stage 1 Member

Science

Day and Night

From bright morning to dark bedtime, Daisy sees what changes between day and night.

Day and nightRead

Stage 3 Member

English

The Case of the Missing Mango

A tiny mystery told as a play, Emily, Tryphonia and Pepper solve who took the mango.

Reading a playscript; speech and dialogueRead

Stage 6 Member

English

Should We Keep the Old Baobab?

The school wants to fell the old tree for a car park. Tryphonia writes both sides before deciding.

Writing a balanced argument (both sides)Read

Stage 1 Member

Science

My Five Senses

Daisy uses her eyes, ears, nose, tongue and hands to explore the world around her.

The five sensesRead

Stage 3 Member

Maths

Christian’s Market Stacks

Stacking oranges in fives, Emily finds the pattern hidden in the 5 times table.

Stage 6 Member

Maths

The Discount Detective

A “50% off” sign and a sharp mind, Tryphonia checks whether the market bargains are real.

Finding percentages of amountsRead

Stage 1 Member

ScienceMaths

The Sorting Basket

Daisy tidies her muddled toys by sorting them, first by colour, then by size.

Sorting into groupsRead

Stage 3 Member

ScienceEnglish

Emily’s Hungry Sunflower

Emily discovers why her sunflower droops, and the four things every plant needs.

What plants need to grow; parts of a plantRead

Stage 6 Member

Science

The Web at Baobab Hill

Tryphonia maps who-eats-whom on the hill and sees how energy flows from the sun upward.

Food chains, food webs and energy transferRead

Stage 1 Member

Maths

Round, Round, Square

Daisy hunts for shapes around the house, round circles, four-sided squares, three-cornered triangles.

Flat shapes: circle, square, triangleRead

Stage 3 Member

English

Why the Tortoise Has a Cracked Shell

A greedy trick sends Tortoise tumbling from the sky, an old tale about why his shell is cracked.

Reading and retelling a traditional taleRead

Stage 6 Member

English

The Photograph

An old photo pulls Tryphonia into a memory, a story that shows how flashbacks work.

Narratives that use flashbackRead

Stage 1 Member

Maths

Daisy Makes Five

Daisy splits five buttons between two cups and finds five can be made lots of ways.

Making five (number bonds)Read

Stage 3 Member

MathsEnglish

The Sweet Shop Swap

Emily learns the trick of “carrying” when her sweets spill over a group of ten.

Adding 2-digit numbers with regrouping (carrying)Read

Stage 6 Member

Maths

The Recipe Riddle

A half plus a quarter? Tryphonia cracks how to add fractions that do not match.

Adding fractions with different denominatorsRead

Stage 1 Member

Maths

More or Fewer?

Daisy compares two plates of grapes and learns to make them fair by sharing.

Comparing amounts (more and fewer)Read

Stage 3 Member

ScienceEnglish

The Sorting Safari

On a photo safari, Emily learns to sort every animal she meets into its right family.

Grouping animals (mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects)Read

Stage 6 Member

ScienceEnglish

The Breath Machine

Back aboard the shrunken sub, Tryphonia rides an air current into the lungs to see how we breathe.

The respiratory system (breathing and gas exchange)Read

Stage 1 Free

Maths

Ten Little Toes

After her bath, Daisy counts her toes with Papa, five on each foot, ten in all.

Counting to tenRead

Stage 3 Member

MathsEnglish

The Market of Three Baskets

At the busy market, Emily learns why 3 baskets, 4 bags and 7 beans is really the number 347.

Place value to 1000 (hundreds, tens, ones)Read

Stage 6 Member

MathsEnglish

The Clockwork Order

A jammed machine will only restart if Tryphonia solves its sum in exactly the right order.

Order of operations (BODMAS/brackets)Read

Stage 3 Member

ScienceEnglishMaths

The Ice Lolly and the Missing Puddle

A melting ice lolly and a puddle that vanishes teach Emily the three states of matter.

States of matter (solid, liquid, gas) and changes between themRead

Stage 6 Member

MathsEnglish

Won by a Hundredth

A photo-finish race at sports day teaches Tryphonia how to read and compare decimals.

Decimal place value (tenths, hundredths, thousandths) and comparing decimalsRead

Stage 1 Free

Maths

Daisy's Five Shells

On the beach with Pepper, Daisy counts her shells one by one, all the way to five.

Counting to fiveRead

Stage 3 Free

ScienceEnglishMaths

The Stone, the Seed and the Wind-up Beetle

Emily tests a stone, a seed and a clever toy to discover which one is truly alive.

Living vs non-living thingsRead

Stage 6 Free

ScienceEnglishMaths

Voyage on the Red River

A shrunken submarine pilot sails the bloodstream to discover how the heart, arteries and veins work.

The circulatory systemRead