How can you tell they’ve got it: The Circulatory System?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Name the main components: heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, blood; Describe the heart as a pump that pushes blood around the body in a continuous loop; Explain that blood carries oxygen and nutrients to cells and removes waste products like carbon dioxide. Or just try it together: Can your child explain what the heart does, why we have blood vessels throughout the body, and what blood actually carries?

Science Organisms & Life Processes Ages 10–11

The Circulatory System

Your child can explain the heart's job. It pumps blood round the body in a loop. The blood carries oxygen and food to cells and takes waste away.

In curriculum terms

Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels, and blood

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Name the main components: heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, blood
Describe the heart as a pump that pushes blood around the body in a continuous loop
Explain that blood carries oxygen and nutrients to cells and removes waste products like carbon dioxide

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Try this together

Can your child explain what the heart does, why we have blood vessels throughout the body, and what blood actually carries?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

The Digestive Systemages 8–9Must know digestive system before learning circulatory system that transports digested nutrients

Organ Systems Vocabularyages 9–11Identifying and naming parts of the circulatory system requires circulatory system vocabulary: artery, vein, capillary, blood vessel

Skeletons & Musclesages 7–8Understanding skeleton and muscles provides context for internal organ systems

Heart & Blood Circulationages 9–11Enrichment knowledge of 4-chamber heart and double loop supports formal curriculum study of circulatory system

The Circulatory Systemthis skill · ages 10–11

Unlocks

Diet, Exercise & Lifestyleages 10–11Must know circulatory system before understanding how diet and exercise affect it

Nutrient Transport in Animalsages 10–11Must know circulatory system before understanding how it transports nutrients

Heart Structure & Double Circulationages 12–13KS3 heart structure and double circulation extends KS2 introduction to the circulatory system

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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).

Nearby on the map

Diet, Exercise & Lifestyleages 10–11 Energy from Food & the Sunages 10–11 Evolution vocabularyages 10–11 Nutrient Transport in Animalsages 10–11

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