What we teach, and how it lines up with school
Everything in Kokka sits on the Australian Curriculum v9 — the same document your child’s school works from. Maths and English, Year 1 to Year 6, broken into skills small enough to practise and to report on.
Subject → year → level
A band is one combination of subject, school year and difficulty level — for example Year 4 · Maths · Medium. Inside a band sit its numbered topics, and inside each topic the individual skills a question can be written against.
Curriculum codes
Each band carries the official Australian Curriculum codes it covers. Those codes are what makes a report specific: instead of “fractions need work”, you get the statement the school is actually assessing.
Where the wording comes from
We do not rewrite the curriculum — we index it. You can read every statement in full on the official site, and we point at it rather than paraphrasing when precision matters.
Three levels, and who they are for
Level is a property of the content, not a label on your child. A child moves between levels constantly — and between years, too, because the point is to meet them where they are.
Easy
Foundation and catch-up work drawn from each year level. This is where a child rebuilds anything that did not stick — including material from a year or two below their own.
Medium
The core of the curriculum: fluency and standard problem solving for the year the child is actually in. Most practice happens here.
Hard
Extension and reasoning — multi-step problems, strategy selection, written explanation. Built strictly on curriculum skills, never on material from a later school year.
One rule we hold to: nothing at Hard reaches into the next school year’s curriculum. Harder means deeper reasoning on what they are supposed to know, not a preview of next year.
A few bands, as they actually appear
Five of roughly sixty bands — enough to see the grain of it. Each one lists its topics in teaching order and the curriculum codes behind them.
Year 3 · Maths
- Read 4-digit numbers, and thousands / hundreds / tens / ones
- Round to the nearest 10 and 100
- Multiplication facts: 2, 5 and 10, then 3 and 4
- Unit fractions of shapes and sets, and fractions on number lines
- Time to the minute, dollars and cents
Year 4 · Maths
- Multiplication facts completed to 10 × 10, and related division facts
- Division with remainders, factors and multiples
- Equivalent fractions, then adding and subtracting like fractions
- Tenths as fractions and decimals, and the link between the two
- Metric units and area
Year 4 · English
- Compound sentences, and complex sentences with because / when
- Pronoun reference and subject–verb agreement
- Tense consistency across a paragraph
- Possessives, contractions and apostrophes
- Prefixes and suffixes for meaning and spelling
Year 1 · English
- Short a / i / o / e / u CVC words
- Mixed CVC automaticity
- Sight words and simple starting sound patterns
- Naming and action words in sentences
- Capital letters and full stops
Year 6 · Maths
- Choosing the best whole-number or fraction / decimal / percentage strategy
- Multi-step rational number problems
- Timetables, scheduling and measurement conversions in context
- Coordinate and shape-property reasoning
- Misleading graphs, fairness and probability
Not sure which year to start at?
The free assessment starts at your child’s year level and adjusts from there — up or down — until it settles on where they actually are.