Learning framework
What KidsPiggy actually teaches
Eight learning domains, each with an objective, an example activity, the adult's role and where it stands today.
Critical thinking
Implemented- Objective
- Practise asking better questions and checking whether an answer actually makes sense.
- Example activity
- Piggy asks a question back before offering an explanation, then invites the child to spot what is missing.
- Adult's role
- Ask the child to explain their reasoning out loud afterwards.
- What progress looks like
- The child can restate a question in their own words.
Emotional awareness
Implemented- Objective
- Build vocabulary for naming feelings and noticing them early.
- Example activity
- Short story prompts where a character feels something confusing.
- Adult's role
- Connect the story feeling to something from the child's day.
- What progress looks like
- The child names a feeling with a word other than good or bad.
Decision-making
Implemented- Objective
- Practise weighing options and living with a chosen trade-off.
- Example activity
- Small choice scenarios with visible consequences.
- Adult's role
- Talk through a real family decision using the same steps.
- What progress looks like
- The child can say why they chose one option over another.
Digital and AI literacy
Implemented- Objective
- Understand that AI is a tool that can be wrong.
- Example activity
- Piggy explains where an answer came from and what it cannot know.
- Adult's role
- Reinforce that answers should be checked.
- What progress looks like
- The child asks how do you know that.
Algorithmic resilience
Documented- Objective
- Recognise when a digital system is trying to hold attention or steer a choice.
- Example activity
- Spot-the-trick prompts about feeds, streaks and rewards.
- Adult's role
- Point out the same patterns on the family's own devices.
- What progress looks like
- The child can name one attention trick they noticed.
Early financial literacy — PiggyBank
Implemented- Objective
- Learn saving, planning and delayed gratification with virtual goals.
- Example activity
- Set a virtual goal and track progress toward it.
- Adult's role
- Mirror the goal with a real-world equivalent if appropriate.
- What progress looks like
- A completed virtual saving goal.
Kindness and social awareness — Pay It Forward
Implemented- Objective
- Practise gratitude, empathy and prosocial choices.
- Example activity
- Record a small kind act and reflect on how it felt.
- Adult's role
- Notice and name kindness at home.
- What progress looks like
- A described act of kindness.
Creativity and guided exploration
Documented- Objective
- Use open prompts to imagine, build and explain ideas.
- Example activity
- Story and what-if prompts with follow-up questions.
- Adult's role
- Ask the child to finish the story their own way.
- What progress looks like
- An original story or idea the child can retell.
How the domains fit together
The domains are not a syllabus to complete in order. A single session usually touches two or three of them — a money question becomes a decision question, a story becomes a feelings question. Progress shows up as better questions, not as a score.
No claimed standards alignment
KidsPiggy has not been mapped to any national curriculum or educational standard, and no such alignment is claimed. Educators evaluating classroom fit should read KidsPiggy for educators and the validation status first.