Autumn

Spring

Summer

EYFS

Development Matters

• Begin to make sense of their own list – story and family's history.
• Show interest in different occupations.
• Explore how things work
• Talk about the differences between materials and changes they notice.
• Explore the natural world around them.
• Describe what they see, hear and feel whilst outside.

This topic is taught through child led activities, observations and some teacher led activities.

Development Matters

• Plant seeds and care for growing plants.
• Understand the key features of the life cycle of a plant and an animal.
• Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things.
• Understand the effect of changing seasons on the natural world around them.

Development Matters

• Explore and talk about different forces they can feel.

Early Learning Goal

Using senses to explore nature, planting seeds, learning about life cycles, understanding the environment, exploring forces, and observing materials. 

Talk about features of plants/animals, understand need to care for environment, explore forces like pushing/pulling. 

Y1

Taught discretely:

Autumn 1:
Human biology- human body, sight, sound, taste, touch and smell.

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Taught discretely:

Autumn 2:
Seasonal changes- changes in autumn (BOLE), collect and record data.

Materials- exploring materials, rocks, melt and freeze, float and sink, absorption.

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Autumn 2:
Seasonal changes- changes in winter (BOLE), collect and record data.

Mostly integrated through the theme of The Great Fire of London

Taught discretely:

Spring 1:

Planting A- sowing seeds, parts of a plants.

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Animals- mammals, bird, fish, amphibians, reptiles, carnivores and herbivores.

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Spring 2:
Caring for the planet- the importance, how to care for the planet.

Seasonal changes- changes in spring, collect and record data.

Planting B- observe changes in seeds, plant growth.

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Mostly integrated through the theme of Africa:

Summer 1:
Plants- plant parts, trees, wild, local and garden plants, deciduous and Evergreen trees

Planting C- observable changes and growth.

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Summer 2:
Growing and cooking- crops, farming

Seasonal changes- changes in summer, collect and record data, changes in each season.

Y2

Mostly integrated through the theme of Florence Nightingale

Autumn 1:
Animals’ needs for survival- mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, humans.

Humans- exercise, food hygiene, teeth

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Autumn 2:
Materials -identification and properties, bend squash, twist and stretch.

Plastics- helpful and harmful, reducing at school.

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Mostly integrated through the theme of The Coronation

Spring 1:
Plants – parts of a plant, observe how plants grow from bulbs and seeds, recognising what they need to grow.

Living things and their habitats- local, polar, desert, woodland, microhabitats, food chains. Unit to carry over to Spring 2.

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Taught discretely:

Spring 2:
Living things and their habitats

Plants- light and dark.

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Mostly integrated through the theme of Islands

Taught discretely:

Summer 1:
Plants- bulbs and seeds, what is needed for them to grow.

Growing up- life cycles of humans, different mammals, amphibians, butterflies, patterns.

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Summer 2:
Plants- bulbs and seeds.

Growing up- butterfly diary.

Wildlife- the importance and what we can do for wildlife.

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Y3

Mostly integrated through the theme of Ancient Egyptians

Taught discretely:

Autumn 1:
Skeletons-identify and name bones in humans and animals, functions of the skeleton, animals without a skeleton.

Movement- joints and how we move.

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Nutrition and diet- food groups, balanced diets and comparisons, animal diets.

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Autumn 2:
Food waste- what is food waste and how we can reduce it.

Rocks- identify and group rocks, local rock survey.

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Mostly integrated through the theme of Binfield Local study
       
Spring 1:
Fossils- exploring fossils, formation of fossils.

Soil- exploring soil and its importance

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Spring 2:

Light- light sources, the sun, how we see, shadows, looking at opaque, transparent and translucent materials.

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Taught discretely:      

Summer 1:
Plants A- functions of each part, requirements for life, pollination and their life cycle.

Forces- Explore forces, friction.

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Summer 2:
Magnets- exploring magnets and non-magnets, investigating metals, north and south poles.

Plants B- plant growth.

Biodiversity- what is biodiversity? How to increase it in the local area?

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Y4 

Taught discretely:

Autumn 1                                Group and classify living things-grouping animals, vertebrates and invertebrates, classification key of animals, group plants, classification key of plants.

Data collection A- data collection and analysis of plants and animals of the local area.

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Autumn 2:

States of matter- exploring solids, liquids and gases, changing states, melting, evaporation, the water cycle.

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Mostly integrated through the theme of Rainforests

Spring 1:
Sound- vibrations, the ear, volume, pitch.

Data collection B- collection and analysis of plants and animals of the local area

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Spring 2:
Electricity- common appliances, building simple circuits, conductivity, conductors and insulators.

Energy- what is energy? Renewable and non-renewable energy, reducing energy.

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Taught discretely:

Summer 1:
Data collection C- collection and analysis of plants and animals of the local area, making conclusions.

Habitats- living things and their habitats, classification keys of plants and animals, human impact on habitats.

Deforestation- what is deforestation? What is the impact of deforestation on habitats?

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Mostly integrated through the theme of Extreme Earth

Summer 2:
The digestive system- looking at teeth in carnivore, herbivores and omnivores, layers of teeth, tooth decay, exploring the digestive system.

Food chains- what is a food chain? Drawing food chains, what happens to food chain if there is a change.

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Y5

Mostly integrated through the theme of Ancient Greece

Autumn 1
Forces - gravity, effects of air / water resistance.

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Autumn 2

Space- the solar system, the planets, explore the movement of earth and the moon, explain day and night (link to Ancient Greek astronomy).

Global warming- what is global warming? What are the impacts of global warming on living things?

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Mostly integrated through the theme of Sustainability

Spring 1:
Properties of materials- magnetism, transparency and hardness, electrical conductivity, insulation of heat, uses of everyday materials – plastic, wood and metal.

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Animals including humans- human life cycle, babies and children, adolescence and puberty, adults and the elderly, gestation periods of mammals, lifespan. (This unit to be carried over to next term.)

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Spring 2:
Life cycles- life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds.

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Mostly integrated through the theme of Vikings

Summer 1:                              Reversible and irreversible changes- reversible changes, irreversible changes (burning and acid), dissolving, filtering and sieving, solutions and evaporation.
Plastics pollution- what is plastic pollution? What are the impacts of plastic pollution on the planet?

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Summer 2:
Reproduction A- sexual reproduction in mammals, reproductive parts in plants, pollination, asexual reproduction, cloning plants.

Reproduction B- findings and interpret data of clone plants.

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Y6

Mostly integrated through the theme of Changing world

Autumn 1:
Living things - describe how living things including microorganisms are classified according to characteristics and similarities and differences.
 

Taught discretely:

Autumn 2:
Electricity - effects of voltage, drawing circuits using symbols.

Renewable energy- What is renewable energy? Using renewable energy

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 Taught discretely:

Spring 1:
Light - how light travels, sources, and shadows, refraction.

Light pollution- what is pollution? How can we reduce light pollution?

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Taught discretely:

Spring 2:
The circulatory system- the circulatory system, blood, blood flow to the heart, oxygenated and deoxygenated blood, dissection of the heart.

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Diet, drugs and lifestyle- diets, drugs, smoking, heart rate,

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Summer 1                              Variation- What is variation? Inheritance and characteristics.

Adaptation- animal and plant adaptations, evolution, Charles Darwin Finches, natural selection.

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Summer 2

Fossil- fossil formations, exploration, Mary Anning.

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