| Autumn | Spring | Summer |
| Year 1/2 Cycle A |
Ourselves – Bodies, Skeletons, healthy eating, teeth
Healthy Eating
Light / Dark – sources of light, opaque, translucent, transparent, reflections, shadows |
Materials - properties, stretching, bending, twisting, melting, freezing, squashing
Electricity – safety, batteries, making a simple circuit
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Mini beasts – identifying, database, observation, research skills, habitats
Being a scientist practising the skills |
| Year1/2 Cycle B |
Ourselves – as an animal, the senses
Forces – pushing, pulling, turning
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Weather – weather diary, record, temperature, using a rain gauge, extreme weather, Beaufort scale
Air/Water – what is air? using air, water cycle, water in our homes
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Growth – life cycles of frogs and butterflies, animals and their babies including humans
Plants – growing conditions
necessary for growth, parts of a plant
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| Year 3 |
Living/non-living things
Classifying
Habitats
Animal/Human life cycle
Human life cycle
Nutrition – Food groups
Healthy eating
Teeth
Circuits
Uses and dangers of
electricity
Magnets
Forces
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Classifying materials
Changing materials
Light and sound
The earth and beyond
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Plants - functions of each part
Healthy growth
Plant life cycles |
| Year 4 |
Electricity – circuits, adding a switch
Levers and pulleys
Materials
Vertebrates and invertebrates
The skeleton
Main organs and then function
Animal behaviour
Habitats |
Moving air
Characteristics of water
Sound
Senses
Light
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Plants
Fruits and seeds
Classification - keys
Food Chains |
| Year 5 |
Respiratory/circulatory/ digestive systems
Drugs
Social insects
Eggs
Magnets
Circuits
Space and the solar system
Flight
Floating and sinking
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Solids, liquids, gases
Acids and alkalis
Mixtures
The Earth's composition
Soil and rocks
Firework safetyAnimal and plant classification
Habitats
Acid rain |
Sound
Shadows
Mirrors
The Solar system |
| Year 6 |
Circuits
Pendulum
Gears and Pulleys
Sources of energy
Echoes - sound waves
The ear and eye
Convex and concave lens and mirrors
Cameras
Sun facts - an eclipse
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Elasticity
Volume - mass - density
Conductors of heat and electricity
Metals
Crystals
Chromatography
Distillation |
Plant and animal cells
Reproduction in plants
Plant and animal life cycles
Keys
Microbes - recycling
Ecosystems
Symbiosis
The work of Gilbert White and Charles Darwin
Fossils
The Country Code |
