The table below shows how the areas of knowledge occur across subjects


Conceptual understanding

Knowing that

Procedural understanding

Knowing how to

Disciplinary knowledge

Ways of working or knowing

Language

Art

Yes

Yes

How artists make meaning

Visual literacy

Business Economics & Enterprise

Yes

Yes

The practices of Business Economics and Enterprise

Compelling and convincing communication

Computer Science

Yes

Yes

How computer scientists make things work and be better

The language of coding

Design & Technology

Yes

Yes

How designers work through possible solutions to solve problems

The technical language and “laws” that inform design

Drama

Yes

Yes

How dramatists work

Using the ‘language’ of voice and body to convey expression and meaning

English

Yes

Yes

How writers work

Explicit vocabulary instruction

Food & Nutrition

Yes

Yes

How to work proficiently with food

The science of food and its principles

Geography

Yes

Yes

How geographers work

The ‘language’ of map reading

History

Yes

Yes

How historians work

The ability to understand chronology

Law

Yes

Yes

Starting to think like a lawyer

The language of the legal system

Maths

Yes

Yes

How mathematicians work, particularly through problem solving

The ‘language’ of number, including algebra

MFL

Yes

Yes


The rules and patterns of the language studied

Music

Yes

Yes

Musicianship

The language of music notation

PE & Sport

Yes

Yes

Sportsperson-ship

Using the ‘language’ of movement and the body

Religion, Ethics & Philosophy (REP)

Yes

Yes

How the study of REP is interdisciplinary, drawing on the practices of a number of disciplines

The ‘lens’ through which the student sees the world: their personal worldview


Science

Yes

Yes

How scientists work

Scientific language including the language of maths above

Sociology

Yes

Yes

How sociologists research