KS1 |
Term 1 |
Term 2 |
Term 3 |
Term 4 |
Terms 5 & 6 |
Year 1/2 |
Change For The Better? |
What Have they taught Us? |
Where Would We Be Without Water? |
Healthy Body, Healthy Minds |
Our Beautiful World |
A |
What are things made from? Everyday materials and their simple physical properties
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The suitability of everyday materials for their particular uses
What did Charles Macintosh do? |
What are the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food, air)? |
The basic parts of the human body and associated senses
Keeping clean and hygienic |
Common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals and their structure
What are carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores? What is a simple food chain?
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B |
Seasonal Changes across the year including weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies
Identifying and naming common flowering plants and trees and their basic structures |
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Seasonal Changes across the Year.
How do seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants?
How do plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy? |
Why do we need the right amount of exercise and need to eat the right amounts of different types of food? |
Seasonal Changes across the Year
What is the difference between things that are living, dead and things that have never been alive?
How are living things suited to their habitats? How do different habitats, including micro-habitats, provide for the basic needs of different plants and animals? |
Key skills |
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LKS2 |
Term 1 |
Term 2 |
Term 3 |
Term 4 |
Terms 5 & 6 |
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Year 3/4 |
Change For The Better? |
What Have they taught Us? |
Where Would We Be Without Water? |
Healthy Body, Healthy Minds |
Our Beautiful World |
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A |
Solids, liquids or gases? What happens when things are heated and cooled?
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Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
How are sounds made?
How does sound travel to our ears? |
The Water Cycle - Evaporation and condensation |
Types and functions of teeth
The human digestive system
Food chains – producers, predators and prey |
Sorting and grouping living things
Use of classification keys to group, identify and name a variety of living things
Electricity; what uses electricity, simple series circuits, common conductors and insulators |
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B |
The impact of changing environments on living things
Rocks and fossil formation
What is soil made from? 2 |
What did the Ancient Greek shepherd called Magnes discover?
Forces and magnets – how do things move on different surfaces? How do magnets attract and repel? |
The functions of different parts of flowering plants
What do plants need to live and grow, and how does this vary from plant to plant?
How is water transported within plants?
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How can Usain Bolt move so quickly?
The right types and amounts of nutrition – Animals and humans cannot make their own food; nutrition from what we eat
Skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement
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Light – we need light in order to see things. Dark is the absence of light
How are shadows formed and changed
Safety in the sun
Life cycle of flowering plants – pollination, seed formation and dispersal |
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Key skills |
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UKS2 |
Term 1 |
Term 2 |
Term 3 |
Term 4 |
Terms 5 & 6 |
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Year 5/6 |
Change For The Better? |
What Have they taught Us? |
Where Would We Be Without Water? |
Healthy Body, Healthy Minds |
Our Beautiful World |
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A |
Electricity – What happens when you change the components of a circuit?
Using recognised symbols in circuits |
What have we learnt from Sir Isaac Newton and his falling apple?
How can levers, pulley’s and gears help us? |
What are the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction?
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The main parts of the human circulatory system including the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood
How are nutrients and water transported within animals including humans |
Classification of living things – What is significant about the work of Carl Linnaeus?
Evolution and inheritance - What did Mary Anning discover?
How does adaptation lead to evolution? |
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B |
Life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds
Life process of reproduction in some plants and animals
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Light – How do the inventions of Percy Shaw work?
What is the relationship between light sources, objects and shadows?
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Properties of everyday materials
Dissolving and recovering substances from a solution
How can mixtures be separated?
Are all changes reversible?
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Humans developing to old age
What impact do diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle have upon the way our bodies function |
Earth and Space
Was Copernicus’ view of the solar system correct?
Inspired by Maggie Aderin-Pocock?
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Key skills |
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