Science Syllabus

  • Primary 5
  • Primary 6
  • Primary 7
  • Primary 8

  • Understand the relationship between germs and sanitation
  • Know about common human parasites, how they are spread and controlled
  • Understand a healthy lifestyle and the concept of health hazards, common drugs and their types
  • Understanding the internal structures of sense organs (eye and ear) and their uses

  • Describe the importance and uses of water in agriculture
  • Appreciate the importance of minerals and manure in agriculture
  • Construct and use simple weather instruments
  • Understand the concept and causes of wind and uses of wind energy
  • Describe and explain the behaviour of materials under different temperatures

  • Differentiate between transparent, translucent and opaque objects
  • Understand the nature of sound and its uses
  • Understand rotation of earth and day and night
  • Describe simple common tools and their classifications as machines e.g. first class, second e.t.c

  • Explain the causes of drug abuse and its impacts on life
  • Understand the nature of changes occurring in humans at puberty, (sexual relationships, sexual intercourse, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, contraception)
  • Understand the levels of organisation of living things: cells, tissues, organs, systems
  • Know the food types and understand the importance of a balanced diet
  • Understand structures of plants and their functions

  • Describe water cycle and understand the effects of weather on human activities
  • Describe the components of air and their properties and understand that air supports burning
  • Explain properties of metals and non-metals
  • Explain the states of matter and changes of state, and understand concepts of atoms, elements, mixtures and compounds
  • Understand the concepts of mass flow and diffusion

  • Understand concepts of reflection and refraction of light
  • Understand how light and sound travel through different media
  • Understand earth and space in relation to solar system; explain seasons
  • Understand concept of heat and how it is measured

  • Explain structures and functions of human excretory and circulatory system.
  • Explain how reproduction takes place in flowering plants
  • Name some common water and air-borne diseases, describe their causes, effects and prevention;
  • stress and depression;
  • home nursing
  • Explain the structures and functions of human digestive and respiratory systems
  • Understand hygienic food preparation techniques; nutrition needs for good health and for special groups

  • Outline the sources of water, methods of collection & purification; pollution and its impact
  • Understand humidity and how to measure it
  • Recognise difference between mass and weight and their measurement
  • Explain the term 'chemical reaction' and describe how reactions involve energy changes

  • Understand forces and the different types of forces and units for measuring force
  • Identify different forms of energy, describe energy transformations
  • Describe components of solar system, orbits of planets and moons
  • Understand the use gears, and multiple pulleys in making work easier

  • Apply knowledge of hygiene and disease to personal and home sanitation, food preservation
  • Explain how reproduction takes place in mammals and birds
  • Describe effective pre- and post-natal care in humans
  • Understand processes of respiration and photosynthesis, and describe the differences between plants and animals, explain inter-dependency between plants and animals
  • Understand the structure and function of the nervous system.

  • Explain the environmental concern about water and describe conservation strategies
  • Differentiate between weather and climate; describe their effects on land use and human populations
  • Explain the relationship between temperature, pressure and volume of air, the concept of a vacuum
  • Describe common properties and uses of acids and bases: the uses of indicators

  • Understand parallel between human eye and pin-hole camera
  • Understand how sound is produced and how human ear perceives it
  • Explain concept of constellations, galaxies, the universe
  • Describe how heat is conserved
  • Explain how magnets can be made from electricity and the applications of electromagnetism

Mathematics Syllabus

  • Primary 5
  • Primary 6
  • Primary 7
  • Primary 8

  • Read, write, compare and order numbers up to 6 digits
  • Divisibility tests of 3,4,6 and 9 Prime numbers.
  • HCF and LCM
  • Roman numerals up to 50.
  • Add and subtract fractions using LCM
  • Simplification of fractions by cancelling
  • Conversion of fractions to decimals and vice versa

  • Convert meter into kilometer and vice-versa
  • Calculate areas of rectangles and squares
  • Formula for volume of cuboids length × breadth × height  (V=l x b x h)
  • Units of volume
  • Find the volume of cubes and cuboids
  • Convert milliliters to liters and vice- versa
  • Solve problems involving money
  • Tell time in a.m. and p.m.
  • Solve problems involving temperature in degrees Celsius

  • Identify and construct parallel lines using ruler and protractor and compasses
  • Use linear scale and draw lines to a given scale
  • Identify different sorts of angles (acute, obtuse, reflex etc] and relate this to turns.

  • Solving simple equations

  • Representation and interpretation of collected data

  • Read , write, compare and order numbers up to a million
  • Divisibility tests of 8 and 11.
  • Squares and square roots of perfect squares up to 3 digits
  • Conversion of decimals and fractions into percentage and vice- versa
  • Proportion as relationship between two quantities

  • Millimeters as units of length
  • Know the parts of a circle: circumference and diameter
  • Calculate the value of π
  • Units of area in acres and hectares
  • Find the area of triangles
  • Solve problems involving units of capacity
  • Conversion of liters to milliliters and vice-versa
  • Conversion of tonnes to kilograms and kilograms to grammes
  • Solve problems involving tones, kilograms and grammes
  • Finding profit and loss

  • Constructing and bisecting lines
  • Identifying vertically opposite and supplementary angles
  • Constructing a circle of a given radius
  • Making patterns with circles
  • Making cubes and cuboids.
  • Conversion of scale and length,
  • Writing scale in ratio form
  • Making scale drawing.

  • Simple equations with one unknown
  • Simplification of algebraic expressions with and without brackets

  • Reading and interpretation of data from tables
  • Recognizing and interpreting picture, line and circle graphs and their interpretation

  • Squares and roots of perfect square numbers
  • Squares and square roots of fractions (perfect squares) and simple decimals.
  • Cubes of numbers
  • Solving problems using ratios and proportions using the unitary method
  • Percentage increase and decrease

  • Calculate circumferences and areas of circle, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezium, and surface area of common solids.
  • Calculations involving discount, percentages, simple interest, commission and hire purchase
  • Problems involving units of time, converting km/h into m/s and average speed.
  • Problems involving units of weight.
  • Problems involving temperature

  • Identifying transversal lines and angles of parallel lines.
  • Constructing equilateral, isosceles and right-angled triangles
  • Inscribing and circumscribing triangles
  • Pythagoras theorem (2D)
  • Construction of parallelogram, rhombus and trapezium
  • Drawing, interpreting and using a range of linear scale

  • Finding values of algebraic expression by substitution
  • Formation of algebraic expression from mathematical statements
  • Sets, members of a set, set notation and equal and equivalent sets

  • Drawing frequency tables of grouped data
  • Understand and use mean (average), mode and median
  • Drawing using appropriate scale
  • Interpret and draw bar graphs, pie charts and travel graphs
  • Solving problems involving arithmetic mean, mode and median
  • Introduction to Probability (chance)

  • Multiples and factors including fractions and decimals
  • Finding square roots of mixed numbers involving perfect squares
  • Recurring decimals
  • Finding square roots of decimals
  • Expressing fractions and decimals as percentages and vice-versa

  • Solving problems involving length, perimeter and circumference
  • Solving problems involving areas of given shapes; triangles, quadrilaterals, circles and combined shapes.
  • Solving problems involving surface area and volumes of cuboids
  • Converting m2 to cm2 and vice-versa
  • Solving problems involving capacity
  • Solving problems involving; commissions and discounts, hire purchase, profit and loss, simple interest and compound interest
  • Solving problems involving speed, time and distance
  • Speed as a distance covered in unit time (m/s and km/h)

  • Constructing, inscribing and circumscribing triangles of given sides and angles
  • Applying Pythagoras relationships, length and areas of triangles
  • Making curved patterns from straight lines and nets for envelopes, pyramids and prisms
  • Solving problems involving scale
  • Use of co-ordinates

  • Formation, simplification and evaluation of algebraic expressions
  • Sets, union of sets, empty, unequal and intersection of sets
  • Understand and produce Venn diagrams (up to 2 sets)

  • Collecting and recording of data: representation and interpretation
  • Probability: Calculating possible outcomes of simple events.