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The Science Curriculum


Science

 
Coordinator: Mrs. A Hawkins

Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Year Group

Autumn
 1
Autumn
2
Spring
1
Spring
2
Summer
1
Summer
2
Reception

Themselves and others

Properties of natural and man-made materials

Make different sounds.

Our senses.

Food.

Power sources.

 

Safety issues.

Light.

Living Things. Plants.

Living things.

Animal habitats.

Year 1 Ourselves

 

Pushes and pulls

Light and dark

Sorting and using materials

Sound and hearing

Growing plants.

Year 2

Grouping and changing materials

Health and Growth

Forces and movement

Using electricity

Plants and animals in the local environment

Variation

Electricity revisited

Year 3

Helping plants grow well

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Teeth and eating

Rocks and soils

Characteris-
tics of materials

Magnets and springs.

Light and shadows

Year 4

Friction

Circuits and conductors

Moving and growing 

Solids and liquids and how they

can be separated

Keeping warm

Habitats

 

Year 5

Gases around us

Changing state

Keeping healthy

Life cycles

Changing sounds

Earth, sun and moon

Year 6

Changing Circuits

(short unit)

 

Micro-
organisms (short unit)

More about
dissolving

Reversible and irreversible change (short unit)

 

How we see things

(short unit)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forces in Action

 

 

 

 

 

Inter-
dependence
and adaptation