Science
EYFS
- Spring 1- Dinosaurs – living things
- Spring 2- New life – eggs and chicks, living things.
- Summer 1- Rainforests – habitats, climate, animals and plants.
KS1
- Autumn 1 – Plants and seasons
- Autumn 2 – Materials and forces
- Spring 1 – Animals including humans
- Spring 2 – Plants
- Summer 1 – Materials
- Summer 2 – Living things and their habitats
KS2
We teach KS2 Science on a two year cycle:
2025/2026 and 2027/2028
Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 | |
Autumn 1 | States of Matter | States of Matter | Animals including Humans | Animals including Humans |
Autumn 2 | Animals including Humans | Animals including Humans | States of Matter | States of Matter |
Spring 1 | Electricity and Energy | Electricity and Energy | Plants | Plants |
Spring 2 | Plants | Plants | Electricity and Energy | Electricity and Energy |
Summer 1 | Environmental Issues | Environmental Issues | Living Things and Their Habitat | Living Things and Their Habitat |
Summer 2 | Living Things and Their Habitat | Living Things and Their Habitat | Environmental Issues | Environmental Issues |
2026/2027 and 2028/2029
Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 | |
Autumn 1 | Living Things, their Habitats and Classification | Living Things and their Habitats and Classification | Earth and Space | Earth and Space |
Autumn 2 | Earth and Space | Earth and Space | Living Things, their Habitats and Classification | Living Things, their Habitats and Classification |
Spring 1 | Forces and Magnets | Forces and Magnets | Rocks / Evolution, Inheritance and Fossils | Rocks / Evolution, Inheritance and Fossils |
Spring 2 | Rocks | Rocks | Forces and Magnets | Forces and Magnets |
Summer 1 | Light and Sound | Light and Sound | Properties of Materials | Properties of Materials |
Summer 2 | Properties of Materials | Properties of Materials | Light and Sound | Light and Sound |
KS3
Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 | |
Autumn 1 | Lab skills Space | Food and nutrition | Key concepts in biology |
Autumn 2 | Energy | Motion | Motion |
Autumn 3 | Atoms and atomic structure | Periodic table | States of matter and methods of separating and purifying substances. |
Autumn 4 | Cells and their function | Respiration | Transporting substances in cells |
Spring 1 | Elements and compounds | Thermal energy | Forces and motion |
Spring 2 | Human reproduction | Reactions | Atomic structure |
Spring 3 | Forces and their effect | Genetics | Cells and control |
Spring 4 | Mixtures and acids | Forces in action | Periodic table |
Summer 1 | Waves (light and sound) | Structure and bonding | Conservation of energy |
Summer 2 | Ecosystems | Electricity | Genetics |
Summer 3 | Project work | Plants | Ionic and covalent bonding |
Summer 4 | Project work | Project work | Energy transfers |