1. Autumn Term 1 Amazing Bodies
Children will:
Discover the nutrition that all animals including humans require from foods we eat.
Realise the purpose of the human skeleton.
Learn how our muscles and tendons help us to move.
Identify vertebrates and invertebrate.
Autumn Term 2
Rock Detectives:
Children will:
Discover the properties and uses of different types of rocks and soils.
Learn to plan and carry out fair investigations to test rock hardness and permeability.
Learn what a fossil is, how they are made and how they can be discovered.
Spring HT1
Can you see me?
Children will:
Discover that they need light to see and that that dark is the absence of light. Learn how light is reflected and how shadows are formed.
Look for patterns to answer how shadows can change shape.
Recognise that the sun can be dangerous and research ways to protect their eyes.
Summer HT2
Our Changing World
Children will:
Study a local area throughout the year to discover how leaves, trees, flowers, insects and the debris on the ground changes depending upon the time of the year.
Spring HT2
Human Impact
Children will:
Discover that forces arise between two objects.
Learn that pulling and pushing can make things start, stop, accelerate and decelerate.
Investigate magnetic forces (contact and non contact) as well as friction.
Scientific enquiry
Science enquiry unpins all of the learning areas.
Key skills:
To encourage curiosity and exploration.
To understand the importance of a fair test and how to set up a fair test.
To carry out practical enquiries.
Gthering, recording, classifying and presenting data in differing ways.
Research using secondary sources to compare and contrast data.
Make links to why things happens based upon investigations and the children’s knowledge of the world.
Summer HT1
Plants
Children will:
Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots,
stem/trunk, leaves and flowers.
Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from
soil, and room to grow)
Discover the differences between plants.
Learn about the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.