Everything that is inside

The free first week. Your child names colours and shapes, puts a rainbow in order, counts their way to ten, and learns what to do when something feels too hard — plus a page of ideas for getting outside.

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  Brain Boosters

  Naming colours and shapes, spotting what is missing, and the first taste of whole and half.

  20 min
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  Colours and Rainbows

  The order of a rainbow, and the two things you need to make one.

  20 min
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  Counting to Ten

  One tap, one number. The habit that turns chanting into real counting.

  15 min
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  Dealing with Frustration

  Naming the feeling, and swapping the scream for four words: Mama, help me.

  20 min
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  Twelve Things to Do Outside

  No screen, no worksheet. A list to pick from when you need one.

  5 min

Four activities this week. Your child practises spotting small differences, puts names to seven feelings, sings their way from one to ten, and sorts wild animals into the places they live.

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  Brain Boosters

  Seven short exercises in visual attention, categorising and early number sense.

  25 min
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  Emotions, Part 1

  Seven feelings, six little stories, and the words to go with them.

  20 min
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  Over in the Meadow

  A counting song that walks from one turtle to ten foxes. Sing it all week.

  15 min
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  Wild Animal Habitats

  Wild or not wild, and the three places animals live. First real facts to memorise.

  30 min

Three activities. Sorting and size words this week — largest, smaller, smallest — plus a cut-out counting song that goes backwards from five, and a first taste of numbers in German and Spanish.

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  Brain Boosters

  Sorting into groups, comparing sizes, and holding a sentence in mind long enough to answer it.

  25 min
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  Five Little Monkeys

  Counting down from five with cut-out monkeys, then the difference between a monkey and an ape.

  25 min
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  Multilingual Counting

  One to ten in German and Spanish. Not about fluency — about flexibility.

  15 min

Three activities. The Brain Boosters step up into proper reasoning this week and introduce a memory ladder that grows over the coming weeks. Alongside it: what it means to be helpful at home, and sorting fruit from vegetables.

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  Brain Boosters

  Analogies, matrix puzzles, listening problems, and the first rungs of a memory ladder.

  30 min
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  Being Helpful at Home

  Helpful or harmful? Then finding the jobs your child can genuinely do.

  20 min
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  Fruits and Veggies

  Sorting food into two groups, and a lot of new words.

  20 min

We start where every thinker starts: paying attention. This week your child learns to slow down, notice detail, and turn what they notice into a good question.

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  Welcome to Siddhi

  What the next twelve weeks look like, and how to get the most from them.

  8 min
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  The Art of Noticing

  Most people look. Very few notice. Here is the difference, and how to practise it.

  15 min
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  The Noticing Walk

  A twenty-minute walk that turns an ordinary street into a field of evidence.

  30 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on this week's ideas.

  8 min

Estimation, place value and mental shortcuts. By the end of the week a number is something your child has a feel for, not just something to compute.

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  Numbers Have a Size

  Why a thousand and a million feel similar but are wildly different.

  9 min
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  The Power of Estimation

  How to get a useful answer in ten seconds without a calculator.

  18 min
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  Guess, Then Count

  Five estimation challenges around the house, scored against the real answer.

  35 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on estimation and number size.

  8 min

Precise words, strong sentences and the shape of a story. Your child practises being understood the first time.

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  The Right Word

  Why 'nice' and 'stuff' are hiding places, and what to use instead.

  8 min
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  Sentences That Work

  Four small edits that make any sentence clearer.

  16 min
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  Six-Word Stories

  Write ten complete stories in six words each. Hardest easy thing you will do this week.

  30 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on clear writing.

  8 min

Sequences, logic grids and the habit of asking 'what is the rule here?'. This is the week the thinking gets properly playful.

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  Everything Has a Rule

  Patterns in numbers, in music, in the way a tap drips.

  9 min
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  Guess the Rule

  The famous 2-4-6 puzzle, and the trap almost everyone falls into.

  18 min
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  The Logic Grid

  Solve a five-clue puzzle with a grid, then build one of your own.

  35 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on rules and testing.

  8 min

Fair tests, variables and evidence. Your child runs three real experiments and learns why one result is never enough.

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  What Makes a Fair Test

  Change one thing. Keep everything else the same. Harder than it sounds.

  9 min
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  Evidence and Opinion

  How to tell the difference, and what to do when someone blurs them.

  16 min
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  Three Kitchen Experiments

  Run three fair tests with things you already own, and record the results properly.

  45 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on fair tests and evidence.

  8 min

Prototypes out of paper and tape. Your child learns that the first version is supposed to fail, and that testing to destruction is the fun part.

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  The First One Fails

  Why designers build a rubbish version on purpose.

  8 min
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  Structures That Stand

  Triangles, tubes and the three ways a structure fails.

  16 min
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  The Paper Tower Challenge

  Three versions, one change each, one measured winner.

  45 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on structures and prototyping.

  8 min

Where money comes from, what a price really means, and why every purchase is a choice not to buy something else.

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  Money Is a Choice

  Every rupee spent on one thing is a rupee not spent on another.

  9 min
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  What a Price Means

  Where prices come from, and three tricks used to make them feel smaller.

  17 min
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  The Hundred Rupee Week

  Plan a whole week on an imaginary budget, then defend your choices.

  40 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on money and trade-offs.

  8 min

How focus actually works, why sleep is not lost time, and small habits that make everything else in this programme easier.

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  Your Attention Is Limited

  You cannot do two thinking jobs at once. Here is what is really happening.

  8 min
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  Sleep Is Not Lost Time

  What your brain does at night, and why it decides what you remember.

  15 min
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  The Focus Experiment

  Measure your own switching cost with a stopwatch. The result usually surprises people.

  35 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on attention and rest.

  8 min

Drawing what is actually there, mixing colour on purpose, and using constraints to get unstuck. No talent required.

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  Drawing Is Seeing

  People who 'cannot draw' usually draw the idea of a thing instead of the thing.

  8 min
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  Colour on Purpose

  Three ideas that make any picture look deliberate instead of accidental.

  15 min
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  Thirty Circles

  A classic warm-up that shows the difference between having ideas and letting them out.

  30 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on seeing and making.

  8 min

Listening properly, disagreeing without falling out, and the difference between being right and being useful.

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  Listening Is a Skill

  Most people are not listening. They are waiting for their turn.

  8 min
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  Disagreeing Well

  How to argue about the idea instead of about the person.

  16 min
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  Build It Together

  A two-person build with a twist: only one of you can see the plan.

  40 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on listening and teamwork.

  8 min

Your child picks one project, breaks it into steps, and finds out what a plan is actually for. This is the build-up to the final showcase.

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  What a Plan Is For

  A plan is not a promise. It is a way of finding out what you forgot.

  9 min
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  From Idea to Steps

  How to turn 'I want to make a thing' into something you can start in the next ten minutes.

  17 min
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  Plan Your Showcase

  Choose the project you will present in Week 12, and write the plan for it.

  45 min
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  Check Your Thinking

  Five questions on planning.

  8 min

The final week. Your child finishes their project, presents it, and looks back at twelve weeks of work. Certificate at the end.

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  Finishing Is a Skill

  The last ten percent is the hardest, and it is where the learning is.

  8 min
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  How to Present

  Four sentences that make any presentation clear, however nervous you are.

  15 min
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  Your Showcase

  Finish it, show it, and write the twelve-week look-back.

  60 min
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  The Final Check

  Ten questions drawn from all twelve weeks.

  10 min