The full curriculum · Grade R to 12

A 13-year spine for raising thinkers.

Seven thinking strands — observation, reasoning, evidence, perspective-taking, spotting bias, ethics, and thinking about your own thinking — revisited every single year, each time deeper. Browse any grade’s full year plan below.

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Foundation Phase · Grades R–3

Foundation

Concrete, oral and story-driven. Noticing closely, asking “I wonder…”, saying “because”, and the first sense of fair and unfair.

Grade RThinking starts with noticing — a child who looks closely and asks "I wonder…" has begun to think.34 lessons · 34 available Grade 1We can ask "how do you know?" — some things we saw, some we were told, and the wise thinker checks.34 lessons · 34 available Grade 2Reasons can be compared, and people can feel differently — a good thinker weighs reasons and listens for other feelings.34 lessons · 34 available Grade 3A good thinker is a detective: every claim — even your own — needs evidence, and every decision should be fair.34 lessons · 34 available

Intermediate Phase · Grades 4–6

Intermediate

Claims versus evidence, fact / opinion / bias, checking a source, and the first named logical fallacies and advertising tricks.

Grade 4Claims are cheap; evidence is the test.34 lessons · 34 available Grade 5How you reason decides how sure you can be — and an argument can be perfectly logical yet completely wrong.34 lessons · 34 available Grade 6Most things are connected systems, and seeing is no longer believing — a thinker analyses the whole picture and checks what is real.34 lessons · 34 available

Senior Phase · Grades 7–9

Senior

Media and data literacy, statistics that mislead, logical fallacies, research quality, persuasion and ethics.

Grade 7Spotting a trick is not enough — a Senior thinker JUDGES: how good is this source, this claim, this story, on what criteria, and in whose interest?.34 lessons · 34 available Grade 8Numbers, graphs and "free" services all carry hidden choices and interests — a thinker reads the data behind the claim and asks who is moving whom, and at what cost.34 lessons · 34 available Grade 9Bad reasoning often feels like good reasoning — the Senior summit is learning to evaluate an argument, a study, an expert and even your own motives before you accept a conclusion.34 lessons · 34 available

FET Phase · Grades 10–12

FET

Scientific and civic reasoning, how we know what we know, sustained argument, tech and economic ethics — building toward a capstone.

Grade 10Before you can judge a claim you must understand knowledge itself: what makes a belief actually knowledge, how science earns the right to be believed, and that no single tradition owns the question of how we know.34 lessons · 34 available Grade 11Critical thinking earns its keep in the arenas of power: a citizen who can build and break a sustained argument can judge a policy, a price, a manifesto and a machine — and act, not just react.34 lessons · 34 available Grade 12Thirteen years of habits become one disposition: to meet any claim — advert, politician, viral post, textbook, your own conviction — and ask "says who, on what evidence, in whose interest, and what would change my mind?" — and then to act as a thinking citizen.34 lessons · 34 available