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Secondary School
Seasonal Changes
How does the weather and the length of the day change across the four seasons?
Plants
How many different wild and garden plants can you recognise and name? How would you describe the structure of a plant?
Uses of Everyday materials
How can you compare the suitability of different materials for different jobs? How can you change the shape of solid objects?
Living things and their habitats
How do you identify if something is alive, dead or inanimate? How are different plants and animals suited to their habitats and microhabitats?
Animals, including humans
How can a ‘food chain’ show how animals obtain their food? How do animals change from infants to adults?
Light and Shadows
Where does light come from and why do we need it?
Why is light from the sun dangerous and how can we protect our eyes? How are shadows made and change?
Animals, including humans
What do animals need to survive and thrive? How do animals obtain and use the nutrition found in food?
Forces and magnets
How do things move on different surfaces? What materials are attracted or repelled by magnets? How would you describe a magnet and magnetic force?
Rocks
How can we compare and group different types of rocks, how are fossils made, and what is soil made from?
States of Matter
What are the differences between solids, liquids, and gases, how does temperature affect them, and how do these changes relate to the processes and factors influencing the water cycle?
Living things and their habitats
How do we use classification keys to group living things, how do environments change over time, and what problems can these changes cause for plants and animals?
Evolution and inheritance
How have living things evolved over Earth's history, and what role do genetics and inheritance play in variation and providing evidence for the theory of evolution?
Living things and their habitats
How are living things classified? What specific characteristics can be used for classifying living things?
Electricity
How do electrical circuits and their components work, how does voltage affect their output, and how can we use this knowledge to design and create programmable devices with sensors and monitoring systems?
Animals including humans
How does the circulatory system work like a transportation system to keep our body alive and healthy?
Our Science Learning Journey
Plants
What do plants need to survive and thrive? How would you explain the life cycle of a plant and the changes that occur?
Animals, including humans
What are the different parts of the human body called and how are they linked to our senses?
How might the features of different animals help them?
Animals, including humans
What different types of teeth do humans have and what are their functions? What are the main parts of the digestive system? How can a ‘food chain’ show the flow of energy between animals?
Forces
How do forces like gravity, air resistance, water resistance, and friction affect objects, and how can mechanisms be used to make tasks easier by increasing the effect of a smaller effort?
Living thing and their habitats and Animals, including humans
What are the differences in the life process of reproduction between animals and plants? What changes occur in humans from birth to old age?
Properties and changes of materials
How do the properties of materials change when we heat, cool, or mix them, and why are these changes sometimes reversible and other times irreversible?
Light
How does light travel and behave, and how does this help us understand how we see, create shadows, reflections, and refraction?
Animals, including humans
How many animals can you describe (including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals)?
How would you group and compare these?
Sound
How is sound made, how does it travel from one place to another, and how can we make it louder, quieter, higher, or lower?
Everyday materials
What are materials made of, where do they come from, and how do their properties determine how we use them in everyday life?
Electricity
How do we build electrical circuits, what makes them work or stop working, and how do materials like conductors and insulators help electricity flow?
EYFS
Understanding the world
What similarities, differences, patterns and changes occur in the natural world?
What observations can we make about animals and plants and why things occur?
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Plants
How do flowering plants reproduce? How is water transported around plants?
Earth and Space
How do the movements of the Earth, Moon, and planets in our Solar System help us understand their shapes, positions, and how they create phenomena like day and night?