CGA Primary Curriculum

What is CGA's Primary Curriculum?

Here’s the question worth asking about any primary curriculum: is it built to stretch your child, or just cover the basics? Our primary options draw on the New Zealand, Australian, US, and UK standards, taking the most demanding version of each. Topics come back every year in more depth.

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Emi, our Full-time Primary Curriculum

Every class is led by a qualified primary teacher. Your child has one-to-one lessons early in the week and small live group classes at the end of it, so learning is shaped around where they are, not just how old they are. Emi is powered by Crimson Global Academy (CGA).

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English

  • Understanding stories: character, setting, plot, and theme
  • Vocabulary, grammar, dialogue, and figurative language
  • Descriptive, narrative, informative, and opinion writing
  • Summarising, sequencing, and researching

Outcome: Children plan, write, and edit stories and reports with clear grammar and vocabulary.

Maths

  • Operations, place value, fractions, and decimals
  • Multi-step word problems and mental maths
  • Measurement, geometry, and data
  • Financial maths in NZ dollars, mainly metric units

Outcome: Children explain their thinking and apply maths to real-world problems.

Innovation

  • Science, geography, social studies, and computing in one subject
  • Living things, habitats, weather, energy, and matter
  • Hands-on experiments and virtual labs

Outcome: Children observe, experiment, and reach conclusions from evidence.

Primary Single Subjects

These subjects are available via our Da Vinci Programme (1-1 instructions)

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English

Integrates reading, writing, speaking, listening, and the study of vocabulary and grammar in a way that engages today’s learners and supports them in building a broad and diverse set of literacy skills.

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Science

Explores physical, life, and earth and space sciences through experiments, field studies, and observations, highlighting ecosystems and scientific measurement tools.

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Math

Covers advanced multiplication, division, fractions, and geometry, progressing to fluency in arithmetic operations and deepening understanding of mathematical concepts and applications.

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World Geography

Introduces students to the five themes of geography: location, place, region, human-environment interaction, and movement.

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Computer Science

Students in Grade 4 explore productivity tools, and fundamental computing topics, and students in Grade 5 learn digital skills including programming concepts, image editing, and computing career paths.

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What is the Da Vinci Programme?

The CGA Da Vinci Programme offers students aged 6 - 18 years the opportunity to study one-on-one with one of our experienced teachers. Students cover the full range of subjects of their choice, at a pace that suits their needs.

Research suggests that intensive, individualised teaching contributes to statistically significant gains in student assessment scores (the average tutored student outperforms 98% of non-tutored students).

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Why Study the Primary Curriculum at CGA?

Real depth in core subjects, skills built for what's next, and a genuinely global outlook.

Core Subjects Mastery

English, Maths and Science taught in-depth, instead of a broad, one-size curriculum.

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Future-Ready Skills

Independence, resilience, self-driven learning. Skills that outlast any single subject.

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Balanced, Global Content

A curriculum built for a global classroom, not one country's version of world events.

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