Practical skills beyond the usual subjects
Social Skills & Relationships
Listening, empathy, boundaries and repairing mistakes.
YEARS 5–9Money & Financial Literacy
Budgeting, saving, value and thoughtful money choices.
YEARS 6–9Entrepreneurship
Solve a problem, test a prototype and explain an honest business idea.
YEARS 8–9Investing & Risk
Explore uncertainty, compounding, diversification and misleading claims.
Optional courses, adapted by age band and year. Parents choose which to add to each child’s weekly plan.
Explore each subject
Mathematics
Read, partition and compare four-digit numbers.
MONTH 1English
Retrieve details and support an inference.
MONTH 1Science
Group living things using observable features.
MONTH 1History
Place Roman Britain on a timeline and distinguish evidence from a guess.
MONTH 1Geography
A map key explains symbols; a grid reference locates a square.
MONTH 1Art and Design
Observational drawing starts with looking carefully at large shapes and their relationships.
MONTH 1Design and Technology
A design begins with someone’s need.
MONTH 1Music
Pulse is an even beat; rhythm is a pattern of sounds and silences fitted to it.
MONTH 1Physical Education
Controlled movement combines stable positions with safe transitions.
MONTH 1Computing
Decomposition breaks a task into manageable parts.
MONTH 1Personal Development
People may feel differently in the same situation.
MONTH 1Religious Education
A worldview is a way of understanding life and what matters.
A subject list is only the beginning
See the learning goals, work through an example and find out how your child explains the idea. Parents can choose subjects and use saved work to decide what to revisit.
Updated 28 October 2026 · Asta Online School
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