Science in EYFS
- Spring 1- Dinosaurs – living things
- Spring 2- New life – eggs and chicks, living things.
- Summer 1- Rainforests – habitats, climate, animals and plants.
Science in KS1
| | Y1 | Y2 |
| Autumn 1 | Plants and Seasons | Plants and Seasons |
| Autumn 2 | Materials and Forces | Materials and Forces |
| Spring 1 | Animals including Humans | Animals including Humans |
| Spring 2 | Plants | Plants |
| Summer 1 | Materials | Materials |
| Summer 2 | Living things and their habitats | Living things and their habitats |
Science in KS2
2024/2025
| | Y3 | Y4 | Y5 | Y6 |
| Autumn 1 | Living things, their Habitats and Classification | Living things and their Habitats and Classification States of Matter | Earth and space | States of Matter Living things and their habitats and classification |
| Autumn 2 | Earth and Space | Earth and Space Animals including humans | Living things and their habitats and classification | Animals including Humans Earth and space |
| Spring 1 | Forces and Magnets | Forces and Magnets Electricity | Rocks / Evolution, Inheritance and Fossils | Electricity Forces and magnets |
| Spring 2 | Rocks | Rocks Plants | Forces and magnets | Plants Evolution, Inheritance and Fossils |
| Summer 1 | Light and Sound | Light and Sound Living things and their Habitats and Classification | Y5: Properties of materials | Light and Sound |
| Summer 2 | Properties of materials | Properties of materials Environmental issues: Global warming Pollution Plastics | Light and Sound | Environmental issues: Global warming Pollution Properties of materials |
Science in KS3
| | Y7 | Y8 | Y9 |
| Autumn 1 | Lab Skills Human body: organs, tissues, cells. | Combustion Periodic table | Key concepts in biology |
| Autumn 2 | Human body: sexual reproduction. fitness, skeleton, muscles and blood. | Metals Rocks | Cells and control |
| Autumn 3 | Adaptation and the environment | Food and nutrition, plants and their plant reproduction | Genetics |
| Autumn 4 | Solutions, mixtures and separation | Breathing and respiration | Motion |
| Spring 1 | Acids and Alkalis | Simple life – single celled organisms | Forces and motion |
| Spring 2 | Particle model Atoms, elements and molecules. | Fluids: particle model Density, pressure and drag | Conservation of energy |
| Spring 3 | Energy: from food; transfers; fuels. | Light and sound | States of matter and methods of separating and purifying substances. |
| Spring 4 | Current electricity, Forces | Energy transfers | Atomic structure |
| Summer 1 | Waves | Earth and Space | Periodic table |
| Summer 2 | Light and Sound | Earth and space | Ionic and covalent bonding |
| Summer 3 | Project work | Project work | Revision and assessment |
| Summer 4 | Project work | Project work | Project work |
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Last updated September 6, 2024
