Knights & Armour
Your child can say what a knight was: a trained fighter in armour with a shield and sword. They know knights were meant to be brave and protect the weak.
In curriculum terms
What knights were: trained warriors who served a lord; armour, shields, swords, and lances; the code of chivalry as rules for how knights should behave
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Could your child describe what a knight looked like, what they did, and at least one rule they were supposed to follow?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).