Knowledge Organisers have been devised as a multi-purpose tool to assist teachers in their planning and assessments, Subject Leaders in their evaluations of standards in their subjects and parents to have a fuller understanding of knowledge their child will cover each term and how they can support them to remember this. 

At Barrow Hedges, we emphasise the importance of children needing to regularly revisit their prior knowledge to make links in their learning and to help them not to forget.   This is referred to as ‘sticky knowledge’ which is important in two ways:

Firstly, the more a child knows, the more their knowledge can stick to their existing knowledge (building schemas). 

Secondly, we want their knowledge to stick!  To ensure that this is the case, children must keep retrieving existing knowledge from their long-term memories in order to interrupt forgetting.  

Therefore, the children will use the knowledge organisers in class to help them remember key facts. We encourage parents to spend some time looking at them with their child(ren) at home too.

These Knowledge Organisers exist for the core area of science and most foundation areas, with the exception of PE and PSHE.

Click on the tabs to view the knowledge organisers for each half term.