Science Curriculum

Year 1

• Senses and Our Bodies
• Animals and their skeletons
• Materials
• Plants
• Environmental Science: Transport

Year 2

• Living and Non-Living things
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Animals and their Habitats
• Materials
• Plants
• Environmental Science: Recycling

Year 3

• Rocks
• Nutrition
• Light
• Magnets
• Plants
• Environmental Science: Air Pollution

Year 4

• Electricity
• States of Matter
• Sound
• Animal Classification
• Teeth, Digestion and Food Chains
• Environmental Science: Biodiversity

Year 5

• Earth and Space
• Forces
• Life Cycles
• Materials: Reversible and Irreversible Changes
• Life Changes
• Environmental Science: Water

Year 6

• Light
• Evolution
• The Circulatory System, Diet and Exercise
• Micro-organisms
• Electricity
• Environmental Science: Green Energy

The National Curriculum for Science

The National Curriculum for Science aims to ensure that all pupils:

• develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics
• develop an understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them
• are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future