Science Topic Overview - Whole School
Reception
Autumn Term
Exploring visual similarities and differences, e.g. hand size. hair colour.
Spring Term
Exploring light and dark and understanding darkness is the absence of light.
Summer Term
Exploring changes of substance-making ice-cream, smoothies, lollies (freezing & melting).
Year 1
Science Topics Include:
Everyday Materials
Humans
Seasonal Change
Plants
Animals
Year 2
Science Topics Include:
Humans
Living Things and Their Habitats
Uses of Everyday Materials
Plants
Animals
Year 3
Science Topics Include:
Animals, including Humans
Forces and Magnets
Rocks and Soils (See Geography unit Rocks, Relics and Rumbles)
Plants
Light
Year 4
Science Topics Include:
Animals, including Humans
Sound
States of Matter
Living Things and Their Habitats
Electricity
Year 5
Science Topics Include:
Forces
Earth and Space
Animals, Including Humans
Living Things and their Habitats (Linked to Geography Unit: Sow, Grow and Farm)
Properties and Changes of Materials
Year 6
Science Topics Include:
Animals, including Humans
Electricity
Living Things and their Habitats (Linked to Geography Unit: Frozen Kingdoms)
Light
Evolution and Inheritance