Science

Miss Gearey

Science Lead

Mrs Rocca

Science Link Governor

Year/Working scientifically skills

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

1

Working scientifically skills

Identifying and classifying.

Observing closely, using simple equipment.

Performing simple tests.

Asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways.

Using observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.

Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions. 

Everyday materials:

Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock.

Our Changing World - Plants:

Observe changes across the four seasons.

Our Changing World - Animal Antics:

Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Using our senses:

Identify, name, draw and label basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense.

Our Changing World - Sensing Seasons:

Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.

Observe changes across the four seasons.

Looking at animals:

Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Our Changing World - Plants:

Observe changes across the four seasons.

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

Everyday materials:

Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made.

Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials.

Our Changing World - Animal Antics:

Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. 

Our Changing World - Sensing Seasons:

Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies. 

Plant Detectives:

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

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

Looking at Animals:

Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. 

Our Changing World - Plants:

Observe changes across the four seasons.

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, including deciduous and evergreen trees. 

Our Changing World - Sensing Seasons:

Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.

Observe changes across the four seasons.

2

Working scientifically skills

Observing closely and gathering and recording data to help in answering questions. 

Using observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.

Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.

Identifying and classifying.

Observing closely, performing simple tests and using observations to suggest answers to questions, and gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.

Asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways.

What’s in Your Habitat?

To identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other; to explore and compare the differences between things that are living, things that are dead and things that have never been alive.

To describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

Our Changing World

To identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats.

To identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other..

 To describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food. 

To find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

Materials: Good choices Uses of everyday materials

Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard, for particular uses.

Materials: Shaping Up

Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.

Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses.

Our Changing World

To observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. 

The Apprentice Gardener Plants

Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plant, and find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and to stay healthy.

Growing Up Animals Including Humans

Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air). 

Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring that grow into adults.

Take Care Animals Including Humans

Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

Take Care Animals Including Humans

Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

The Apprentice Gardener Plants

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

Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

3

Working scientifically skills

Setting up simple practical enquiries.

Identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes.

 Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.

Recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts and tables.

Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help answer questions.

Using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions.

Reporting on findings from enquiries, including
oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions.

Using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions, or to support their findings.

Identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes.

Amazing Bodies - Animals including humans

Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.

Identify that humans and some animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

Can you see me - Light

Recognise that we need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light; notice that light is reflected from surfaces. 

Recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by a solid (opaque) object.

Find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.

The Power of Forces - Forces

Notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance.

Compare how things move on different surfaces.  

Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials.  

Observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others; describe magnets as having two poles; predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing. 

How does Your Garden Grow - Plants

Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers.

Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants; identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers. 

How does Your Garden Grow - Plants

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

Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers; explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal. 

Explore the part bees play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal. 

Rock Detectives - Rocks

Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.

Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter. .

Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock.

4

Working scientifically skills

Recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables.

Identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes.

Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions.

Using straightforward evidence to answer questions or to support their findings.

Setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests.

Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions diagrams.

Making systematic and careful observations. They should choose the challenge based on previous experience of using keys.

Setting up simple practical enquiries and recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help answer questions.

Using results to draw simple conclusions. 

Where does all that food go? -  Animals including humans

Describe the basic functions of the main parts of the digestive system in humans.  Where does the food go inside your body? 

Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans.

Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions.

Good vibrations - Sound

Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.

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

Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.

Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases. 

Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it.

In a State - States of Matter

Compare and group materials together according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases. 

Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius °C.

Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.  

Switched on - Electricity

Identify common appliances that run on electricity. processes.

Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wire, bulbs, switches and buzzers.  

Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether a lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery.

Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit.  

Recognise some common conductors and insulators and associate metals with being good conductors.

Where does all that food go? - Animals including humans

Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.

Who am I? - Animals including humans

Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment.

Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.

Human Impact

Recognise that environments can change and that these changes can sometimes pose dangers to living things.

5

Working scientifically skills

Reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.

Recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, and bar and line graphs.

Taking measurements, using a wide range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, and taking repeat readings when appropriate.

Using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests.

Planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary.

Identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.

Get Sorted - Properties and changes of materials

Compare and group together everyday materials based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, including hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal) and response to magnets.

Everyday Materials (Properties and Changes of Materials)

Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for specific uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.

Everyday Materials- Properties and Changes of Materials

Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for specific uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.

Feel the Force - Forces

Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object.

Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, which act between moving surfaces.  .

Recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.  

Feel the Force- Forces

Recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

Circle of Life - animals including humans

Explain the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird.

Circle of Life - animals including humans

Explain the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird.

Reproduction in Plants and Animals - Living things and their habitats

Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.

The Earth and Beyond - Earth and Space

Use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky.

Describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system.  

Describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth.  

Reproduction in Plants and Animals  - Living things and their habitats

Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.

Describe the changes as humans develop to old age. 

Marvelous Mixtures - Properties and changes of materials

Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating.

Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution.

All Change - Properties and Changes of Materials

Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes. Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.  

Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

6

Working scientifically skills

Recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, and bar and line graphs.

Reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.

Identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.

Taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings where appropriate; reporting and presenting findings from enquires, including degree of trust in results.

Planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables.

Presenting findings including causal relationships in oral and written forms.

Everything changes - Evolution

Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but that offspring normally vary and are not identical to their parents.

Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.

Everything changes - Evolution

Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution. 

Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. 

Light Up Your World - Light

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. 

Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines; use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain 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.  

Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them.  

Body Pump - animals including humans

Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.

Danger Low Voltage (Electricity)

Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram.  

Compare the functions of different components, giving reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off positions of switches, and use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram.  

Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit, compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches, and use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram.

The Nature Library - Living things and their habitats

Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro- organisms, plants and animals; to give reasons for classifying animals based on specific characteristics.

Body Health - animals including humans

Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way bodies function.

The children have been learning about senses.They conducted an investigation deciding what flavours they liked and what they disliked. The honey and jam were very popular. The vinegar and lemon were less popular.

The children were exploring the sense of touch. They had to close their eyes and walk through trays filled with different items. Coco pops, shampoo, sand and water. The children then described how the contents of the trays felt and what they thought the item was. We then revealed the answers.