Term One

Term Two

Term Three

Term Four

Term Five

Term Six

FS

Marvellous me

What can my body do? Exploring our senses, organs and bones.

How our bodies are similar and different.

Changes in Autumn –autumn colours, weather, hilbernation and what happens during harvest?

(SK) Sticky knowledge

All around the world

It is dark at night (SK)

Clocks changing, observing the changes between day and night.

How can we stay safe at night? Bright clothes, torches.

Animals that sleep through the winter.

Investigating temperatures - Melting ice/chocolate

How things have changed

Recycling can be used to make models. (SK) Recognising and grouping different materials. Recycling materials to make….sharing examples, pupils investigate how to reuse and recycle hands on.

What is plastic pollution and it’s impact on our planet?

Experiment – floating and sinking, making kites

All creatures great and small

Plants grow in soil. (SK) changes in Spring – plants, animals, weather.

Lifecycles frogs and butterflies. Do we have a lifecycle? Creating a pond, minbeast hunts

Sorting animals – carnivores, herbivores, types of animals.

How do animals survive? David Attenborough

Once upon a time

Experiment - Growing beanstalks, whats does my beanstalk need to grow?

Investigating – making a strong and stable bridge.

Building materials – creating a house/home.

Journeys

Robots can be controlled. (SK)

Trains used to be run on steam.(SK)

Exploring and investigating different ways to travel. Understanding speed and distance.

Programming ICT toys to move forwards, backwards, left and right.

How wheels move. How do wings fly?

Space - understanding gravity

Y1

Seasonal Changes

Four seasons are spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Weather is getting colder and leaves are changing colour and falling off trees.

Weather is much colder and sometimes freezing. There is ice and frost on the ground. Many trees have bare branches.

Daytimes are shortest and night times are longer.

The spring is the season of growth, spring has lots of showers to help with growth.

We have more hours of daylight in the summer and less hours of daylight in the winter.

Animals including Humans

Name and describe our five senses

Know that our taste buds allow us to taste sweet, salty, sour and bitter.

Understand how our sense of smell helps us.

Animals including Humans

Name animals from the five main animal groups.

Know what carnivores, herbivores and omnivores eat and can name some carnivores, herbivores & omnivores.

Key features of mammals - have hair or fur and give birth to live young. Key features of birds -  have 2 legs, wings and feathers. Birds lay eggs.

Amphibians live on land and water and lay many eggs. They are cold-blooded and have webbed feet.

Reptiles are cold blooded, they have dry skin or scales.

Fish live in water breathing through gills not lungs. They have scales and fins and are cold blooded.

Our skin on our hands is how we use our sense of touch

Our eyes are how we use our sense of sight

Our ears help us to hear.

Materials

Identify different materials: wood, plastic, glass, metal water, rock, brick, paper, fabric, elastic, foil, cardboard, rubber, wool and clay.

Group and classify materials based on how they feel.

Some materials are more absorbent than others.

Some materials are more opaque than others.

Materials

Some fabrics can be stretched more than others.

Identify and name materials that are waterproof and are not waterproof.

Name some objects that float or sink.

Identify materials that float or sink.

Identify magnetic and non-magnetic materials.

Plants

Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants including trees.

Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants including trees.

Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants.

Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants including deciduous and evergreen trees.

Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants including deciduous and evergreen trees.

Y2

Living Things and their Habitats

Identify and classify things that are alive, dead and have never been alive.

Name plants and animals which live in different types of habitats.

Name plants and animals which live in micro habitats.

Identify what different animals eat.

Talk about the features of an animal and how they are suited to the habitat.

Construct a food chain using simple diagrams

Materials

Know what material different objects are made from and identify their properties.

Know what material different objects are made from, identify their properties and make a link between property and use.

Describe the actions used to change the shape of different objects

Know the properties of different materials and make a link between property and use.

Animals including humans

Identify and describe the stages of the human life cycle

Identify and describe the life cycle of other animals

Understand the life cycle of insects

Know that animals need water, food, air and shelter to survive

Animals including humans

Heart is a muscle Understand how exercise strengthens your heart muscle by improving the heart’s ability to pump blood around your body.

Sort foods into their food groups and explain why we should eat lots of some foods but less of others.

Understand how germs (bacteria) are spread and how we can stop the spread of bacteria.

Know what microbes are

Plants

Name parts of a plant and know their function.

Describe the life cycle of a plant.

Know that seeds come in all shapes and sizes and can be found in fruits and vegetables.

Identify plants and seeds in the natural environment.

Know what a plant needs to grow.

Plants

Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.

Ask simple questions to investigate.

Look for patterns in results and explain the changes.

Observe how different plants grow in different climates.   

Identify and classify different trees.

Y3

Rocks

Can classify different types of rocks using scientific vocabulary.

Can name some types of rock and give physical features of each.

Record results in a table.

Explain how fossils are formed.

Describe the composition of soil

Light

Know we need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.

Know that light is reflected from surface.

Describe how to protect our eyes from the sun.

Describe how a shadow is formed.

Describe what happens when an object is moved closer and further away from a light source.

Forces and Magnets

Know that friction is a force between two surfaces that are sliding, or trying to slide, across each other.

Give examples of forces in everyday life and of objects moving differently on different surfaces.

Name a range of magnets and show how the poles attract and repel.

Know magnets have North Poles and South Poles.

Know magnets have magnetic fields.

Animals including humans

Name bones in the skeletal system.

Identify different uses of our bones.

Understand how our hands work.

Understand how our hands work.

Name the three different types of skeletons:  endoskeleton, exoskeleton and hydrostatic skeleton.

Animals including humans

Know that our body protects our organs as well as our skeletons.

Know that muscles are attached to the skeleton to help us move. They either contract (bunch up) or relax (go back to normal) to move the bones

Know that we need a balanced diet to stay healthy and identify the nutrients that we need to stay alive.

Know that some foods have more nutritional value that others and that sugar has no nutritional value.

Know how to plan a healthy balanced meal with the correct amount of nutrients.

Plants

Identify and describe the functions of different parts of a flowering plant.

Explore the requirements of plant life and growth.

Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.

Explore the part that flowers play in the lifecycle of flowering plants including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

Explore the part that flowers play in the lifecycle of flowering plants including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

Y4

Animals including Humans

Can describe what happens in each part of the digestive system. 

Can point to three different types of teeth in their mouth and talk about what each is used for.

Describe how to keep their teeth healthy.

Can explain teeth in animals and if they are carnivores, herbivores or omnivores.

Can create and explain food webs.

Know what animals live in their local area and describe the food they eat.

Sound

Know sounds are made when objects vibrate.

Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear.

Know that smaller, shorter, thinner, tighter and denser objects make more high pitched sounds and larger, longer, thicker, looser and less-dense objects make more low pitched sounds.

Know that sound waves spread out from a source in all directions and that as you get further away from the source, the sound wave spreads over a large area therefore the volume (loudness) of the sound gets smaller.

Know that the bigger the vibration which makes a sound, the louder the sound is.

States of Matter

Know how to classify solids, liquid and gases.

Know how gas is created when two materials are mixed together. To know that gas in a liquid can make objects move.

Know how particles move when in different states.     

Temperature affects the rate of evaporation.

Process of the water cycle.

Electricity

Identify electrical appliances powered by mains or batteries.

Know that a circuit must be complete for a component to work.

Identify different conductors and insulators and know that metals are good conductors.

Know that a switch can be used to control a circuit.

Know how to build a simple circuit.

Smashing Stereotypes in Science

Know that scientists are diverse people who come from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Know that as a black scientist in the 20^th century, Garrett Morgan faced many obstacles. Know that Morgan patented his three-light traffic system that formed the basis for our three-light traffic lights today.

Know that the female scientist, Stephanie Kwolek, invented the material, kvelar.

Know that despite being diagnosed with ALS, Stephen Hawking developed theories about black holes and helped millions of people to understand difficult scientific concepts.

Know that Sindi co-founded a non-profit organisation that creates devices that diagnose disease and how she works to promote science education and innovation, especially to young people.

Living Things and their Habitats

Group living things in a variety of ways

Explore and use classification keys to help group animals

Identify and name a variety of living things in the environment

Identify and name a variety of living things in the environment

Recognise that environments can change and this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

Y5

Forces

Know what a force is and identify the 5 different forces. Know Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity.

Know the difference between the gravitational pull on the moon and on the Earth. Know that mass is measured in kilograms/grams.

Can give examples of water resistance and air resistance.  Can give examples of when it is beneficial to have high or low water resistance and air resistance.

Can give examples of friction.  Can give examples of when it is beneficial to have high or low friction.

Know why pulleys, levers and gears are useful.

Properties of Materials

Know how to separate different materials by evaporation, filtering or sieving. 

Can identify materials that do and do not dissolve in water.

Know how to recover materials from solutions through evaporation, filtering or sieving. 

Can identify and describe irreversible changes.

Can suggest an appropriate material for a given purpose.

Space

Name all eight planets in our solar system. To know that these planets all orbits the sun.

Know the relative sizes of all eight planets.

Know which spherical objects are stars, planets and moons. Know and name some moons in the solar system.

Know the phrase of the moon.

Know that the sun appears to move because Earth is rotating on its own axis – once every 24 hours.

Know that Yuri Gagarin was the first person into space.

Know that meteorites create craters on the moon. 

Living Things and their Habitats

Know the life cycle of a butterfly, human, frog and hen.

Know the life cycle of insects identifying insects who undergo a complete metamorphosis and an incomplete metamorphosis.

Identify facts about animals: where they live, what they eat etc.

Know the process of pollination. Describe how different plants are pollinated

Identify the gestation period of different animals

Animals including Humans

Bigger animals tend to have longer gestation periods than smaller animals.

Know that it is important to monitor the development of a foetus to detect abnormal growth and potential diseases or defects.

Know the stages of human development.

Know puberty is when a child’s body begins to develop and change as they become an adult.

Identify ways to look after our mental health:  eating well, drinking water, doing activities we enjoy, sleeping well, having good friends, working towards our goals, talking to people we trust about how we feel.

Super Scientists

Learn about the life and work of Sir Isaac Newton

Learn about the life and work of Galileo Galilei

Learn about the life and work of Jane Goodall

Learn about the life and work of Tim Peake  

Learn about the life and work of Helen Sharman

Y6

Animals including Humans

Know the circulatory system transports oxygen, nutrients and water to the rest of the body, the veins and arteries transport blood around the body and the heart is the organ that pumps blood around the body.

Know your pulse rate measures how fast your heart is beating and understand why your heart beats faster when you exercise.

Know that our blood is made up of white blood cells, red blood cells, plasma and platelets.

Know that fatty rich foods can clog arteries and veins, preventing blood from delivering what is needed.

Know how smoking can adversely affect our heart and circulatory system

Evolution and Inheritance

Know that fossils are the remains of living things which are found in layers of rock. They tell us about living things that inhabited the earth millions of years ago and provide evidence for evolution.

Know that living things produce offspring of the same kind but they are not identical to their parents and they vary from each other.

Know that variation in offspring over time can make animals and plants more or less able to survive in particular environments.

Know if an environment changes, the living things that are best suited survive and reproduce. These characteristics are then passed onto their offspring. Over time, a species will change or a new species may be created. This is evolution.

Electricity

Know how to make a simple circuit in order to light up a bulb. To know how to change the brightness of a bulb. 

In a series circuit its more difficult for current to flow through components such as lamps and resistors.

Know how anodes and cathodes support electrical conduction. Know that acidic fruits can act as batteries. 

Know what voltage is and how it works.

Know how to design a circuit and be able to label all components.

Light

Know that light appears to travel in straight lines.

Know that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye.

Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes.

Explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them.

Explain that light changes direction when passing through two different mediums.

Living Things and their Habitats

Identify vertebrates and classify them as mammals, fish, reptiles, birds and amphibians

Can use a classification key to classify and sort animals.

Know Carl Linnaeus was a scientist who created a standard system of classification called The Seven Level of Linnaeus’ System.

Can use the Linnaeus System to classify animals.

Super Scientists

Learn about the life and work of Carl Linnaeus

Learn about the life and work of Aristotle

Learn about the life and work of Libbie Hyman

Learn about the life and work of Charles Darwin

Learn about the life and work of Mary Leakey