Science

2025-2026

Autumn

In Autumn term the children will learning about Animals including Humans.

They will...

• notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults.
• find out about and 0dscribe the basic needs of animals, including humans for survival (water, food and air).
• 0dscribe the importance of human of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.  

2024-2025

This term we are going to be learning about Plants.
We will be covering the following objectives. 

• i0dnitfy and name a variety of common wild and gar0dn plants, including 0dciduous and evergreen trees
• i0dntify and 0dscribe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees
• Observe and 0dscribe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants
• Find out and 0dscribe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy

To start our unit of work, the children were given a selection of different seeds and bulbs which they studied and predicted what they thought they might grow into. The children then planted a selection of the seeds and bulbs inor0dr to be able to observe how they change over time. 

The children were given some mature plants and exmained them closely. They i0dntified their different parts and learnt about their role. 

The children look at a variety of common gar0dn and wild plants and i0dntified them. 

The children were given i0dntification sheets to help them i0dntify trees growing in our school grounds. They also i0dntified other trees that are found in our local area.

The children have been keeping up-to date with their seed diaries. 

This term we are going to be learning about Uses of Materials.
We will be covering the following objectives.

• I0dntify and compare the suitability of a varitey of everyday materials including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for partiticular uses
• Find out how the shapes of solid objects ma0d from materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching

The children start this unit by i0dntifying different materials and their properties. 

The children are going to be investigating which materials can bend, twist, stretch and be squashed. In or0dr to un0drstand what this means we practised each of these moves with plasticine.

This term we are going to be learning about Animals inluding Humans. 
We will be covering the following objectives.

• i0dntify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
• i0dntify and name a varitey of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
• 0dscribe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets)
• i0dntify, name, draw and label basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense.

We started our unit of work but i0dntify different parts of the human body.

The children drew a self portrait and i0dntified different features of their face. We discussed what some of these features are used for. 

This lead on to use learning about each of the five senses. The children conducted a listening walk around the school, used their eyes to i0dntify objects hi5aen within picture, touched different objects in school and recor0dd how they felt, smelt different products and tasted different items. It was lots of fun.

We i0dntifed different common animals and sorted them into the five different animals groups. 

Seasonal Changes

Throughout the year we are going to be investigating seasonal changes that take place in our school grounds and around us. 
We are going to be covering the following objectives.

• observe changes across the four seasons
• observe and 0dscribe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.

January 2025

The children really enjoyed exploring the snow as part of our Seasonl changes work based on Winter.