| Autumn | Spring | Summer |
| Year 1 |
Ourselves
Body Parts and Movement
Similarities/Differences
Growth and Change
5 Senses
Healthy Eating
Electricity and Forces
(emphasis forces)
Safety
Appliances using Electricity
Forces
Turning
Pushing
Pulling
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Weather
Weather Diary
Record Temperature
Wind Vane/Rain Gauge
Points on Compass
Wind direction
Seasons
Materials
Their Properties
Sorting by Given Criteria
Naming Materials
Difference Natural and Manmade Materials |
Growing
Life Cycles
Plants - What they need to grow
Parts of Plants
Water
We need Water to Live
Water Cycle
Using Water at Home
Water as Solid, Liquid and Gas |
| Year 2 |
Ourselves
External and Internal Body Parts
Keeping Healthy
Balanced Diets/Food Groups
The Skeleton
Looking after our Teeth
Light
Sources of Light
Shadows
Opaque/Translucent/Transparent
Reflection |
Weather
Weather Diary
What is air?
Beaufort Scale
Water Cycle
Extreme Weather
Electricity/Magnetism
Using Electricity
Electricity Safety
Make Simple Circuits/Bulb Lights up
Magnets Repel and Attract
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Minibeasts
Identifying Minibeasts - Keys
Look at Different groups
What is an Insect?
Habitats
Research a particular Minibeast
Materials
Stretching, Bending and Twisting
Devise fair Test to find out the strength of Paper |
| 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 |
