Year Group

Core Knowledge

Skill

Example of Work

Nursery

Identify some of the different body parts from pictures.

Reception

Draw pictures of the human body and name some of the different body parts.

Year 1

The basic body parts are the head, arms, legs, nose, eyes, ears, mouth, hands and feet.

The five senses are hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch.

Ears are used for hearing.

Eyes are used to see.

The nose is used to smell.

The tongue is used to taste.

The skin gives the sense of touch.

Draw and label the main parts of the human body and say which body part is associated with which sense.

Explore the five senses and the body parts associated with them.

Year 2

Humans grow from baby to toddler to child to teenager to adult to elderly.

Describe the stages of human development (baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult and elderly).

Year 3

Humans have a skeleton and muscles for movement, support and protecting organs.

Muscles are soft tissue made up of many stretchy fibres.

Muscles allow us to move, breathe and digest food.

The three main types of muscle in the human body are skeletal, cardiac and smooth.

A joint is where two or more bones meet and connect.

Parts of the human body can bend easily because the skeleton has lots of small bones and joints.

Describe how humans need the skeleton and muscles for support, protection and movement.

Year 4

The digestive system is responsible for digesting food and absorbing nutrients and water.

The mouth, oesophagus, small intestine and large intestine are organs of the digestive system.

Describe the purpose of the digestive system, its main parts and each of their functions.

Year 5

Humans reproduce sexually when a female egg is fertilised by a male sperm producing offspring that are different from the parents.

Describe the process of human reproduction.

Year 6

The heart, blood and blood vessels make up the circulatory system.

The circulatory system moves blood around the body.

The heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood around the body through the blood vessels.

Blood vessels are tubes inside the body.

The three types of blood vessels are arteries, capillaries and veins.

Arteries carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body.

Capillaries connect arteries to veins. They allow oxygen and other nutrients to pass from the blood to the tissues, and carbon dioxide and other waste materials to pass from the tissues to the blood.

Veins carry blood from around the body back to the heart.

Blood is a substance that carries oxygen, other nutrients and hormones around the body. It also carries carbon dioxide and other waste products so they can be excreted.

Blood is made up of plasma, platelets, red blood cells and white blood cells.

Plasma is a yellowish liquid, mainly water. It carries red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets around the body.

Red blood cells carry oxygen and carbon dioxide around the body.

White blood cells fight infection and other diseases.

Platelets are small cell fragments that clump together to stop bleeding from a cut in a blood vessel.

Name and describe the purpose of the circulatory system and the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.