Understanding the World

Create a character and play different activities to help prepare for life at primary school.

Watch Amber, Amelia and Brysen talk about their families.

Draw some pictures of people who are special to you.

Follow the story of Alma the falcon as she finds out about different families.

Draw some of your favourite things.

Find all the differences between these pictures of different families.

Listen to Inam and Ava talk about the people who help them in their families.

Follow Charlie and her Grandad, who are giving out thank-you drawings to the people who help them.

Listen to the different descriptions of people who help us and guess the job.

Match the people who help us to their tools.

Find out which tools are needed for each job.

Complete the mazes to help people with helping jobs to find their equipment.

Find out what firefighters wear and what they do to help us.

Find out what helicopter paramedics wear and what they do to help us.

Spot the differences between the pictures of different people who help us.

Watch Sammie learn about the Romans and Ferne learn about her family history.

Travel back in time with Cal, Bunny and friends to learn about the past.

Find the differences between the pictures from different periods in history.

Colour in a picture of an old toy room and learn about toys from the past.

Make a Victoria sandwich and learn some facts about the Victorian times.

Make your own flatbreads and learn about what the Vikings used to eat.

Decorate a headdress and learn about pharaohs in ancient Egyptian times.

Join the dots to make different dinosaur shapes and then colour them in.

Learn all about the history of your local area.

Match the different items to the place where you might find them in a town.

Explore a town and a city with Grace and Oisin and find out what to see and do.

Learn about different types of home.

Help Cal, Bunny and friends to find all the locations in a town.

Listen to the descriptions and choose which place is being described.

Complete the mazes to find the different places around the town.

Listen to the sounds and work out where you might hear them in a town.

Find out what George and Micah's families like celebrating.

Learn about the Christian festival of Easter and how some families celebrate.

Learn about the Christian festival of Christmas.

Learn about the Islamic festival of Eid ul-Adha and find out how families celebrate.

Learn about the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Learn about the festival of Diwali and how families celebrate it.

Learn why Rangoli patterns are special to people celebrating Diwali.

Learn about the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi and how families celebrate it.

Learn why the Sikh holy flag is so special.

Learn about the Jewish Festival of Lights.

Make hamantaschen biscuits and learn about the Jewish festival of Purim.

Learn about the Buddhist festival of Vesak and how families celebrate it.

Make a mandala from materials found in nature and learn about Buddhism.

Learn about how people celebrate Chinese New Year.

Learn about Chinese New Year by making a special paper dragon.

Find out what Jason and Marta know about China and Spain.

Learn about the different continents.

Find out where in the world each postcard is from.

Follow Bear and Moose on their adventures around the world.

Learn how to look after minibeasts and provide them with shelter.

Learn about different tiny creatures on a minibeast hunt.

Match the animal sounds to the correct animal.

Match the animals to where they live.

Learn all about what can be grown at an allotment.

Learn about what plants need to grow.

Find out why dead wood is so important in nature.

Learn about different things that float and sink.

Learn about floating and sinking.

Learn about the life cycle of a sunflower.

Learn the stages of a butterfly life cycle.

Learn about the difference between light and dark.

Learn about light and shadow by making a shadow puppet monster.

Learn about different things that melt and freeze.

Learn about melting and freezing by making your own ice pops.

Learn about the different liquids and solids that you can find all around us.

Learn all about liquids and solids by making a cake in a mug.

Learn how to care for the environment by picking up litter and recycling.

Finn the frog goes on an adventure to find a new home.

Explore the similarities and differences between different environments.

Listen to the different sounds and choose which environment Bunny is in.

Learn about different habitats and find out which animals live in them.

Find out what living things you can find in woodland habitats.

Find out what you can find on a beach and how important our oceans are.

Learn all about what plants and animals you might find on a farm.

Sing along and find out what type of weather you might see in each season.

Find out the different types of weather, plants and animals you will see in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Find all the differences in the four seasons pictures.

Colour in some common animals and plants you might find in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Match the seasons with common things that you might see.

Choose which item of clothing you would wear in each type of weather.

Match the outfit to each activity and learn about weather and seasons.

Listen to the sounds and work out which type of weather you can hear.