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Seasonal changes
Observe changes over the four season, including weather patterns and day length.
Plants
Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. Investigate the basic needs for a plant to stay to grow and stay healthy.
Use of everyday materials
Investigate and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, for particular uses and change shape through twisting, squashing and stretching.
Animals, including humans
Research the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival. Explain the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.
Forces
Investigate how objects move on different surfaces. Explain how magnets attract or repel each other.
Animals, including humans
Explain what nutrition humans need to survive. Identify the function of the skeleton and muscles.
Plants
Name and explain the function of different parts of a flowering plants. Investigate how water is transported through a plant. Label and describe the life cycle of flowering plants.
Rocks
Identify and compare different types of rocks, looking at appearance and physical properties. Explain how a fossil is formed.
Light
Explain why need need light and what darkness is. Investigate how a shadow is formed and when it’s size changes.
Living things and their habitats
Use classification keys to group and name different living things in their environment.
Living things and their habitat
Compare the life cycles of a mammal, insect, amphibian and bird, including reproduction in some plants and animals.
Properties and changes of materials
Group and compare different materials according to their properties. Investigate how to separate different mixtures and solutions. Identify that some changes are irreversible.
Living things and their habitats
Describe how living things are classified.
Animals, including humans
Identify and name and describe the functions of the main parts of the human circulatory system. Describe how nutrients and water are transported through the body.
Electricity
Investigate the effect of the voltage of a cell on the brightness of a lamp or volume of a buzzer. Recognise the symbols used for components in a circuit.
Knollmead’s Learning Journey
Living things and their habitats
Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive. Identify different animals’ habitats and describe simple food chains.
Animals, including humans
Identify, name and label parts of the human body. Say which part of the body is associated with each sense.
Animals, including humans
Name and describe the basic functions of parts in the digestive systems. Identify different teeth and their functions. Interpret and construct food chains.
Animals, including humans
Describe the changes as humans grow older.
Earth and space
Explain the orbits of the Earth and moon. Describe how rotation causes day and night.
Forces
Investigate the effects of gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction.
Light
Explain how light travels and how objects are seen.
Evolution and Inheritance
Identify evidence of evolution and how living things have changed over time. Recognise how offspring are not identical to their parents. Identify how animals are adapted to suit their environment.
Plants
Identify and name common plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
Label and describe the structure of flowering plants.
States of matter
Compare and group different solids, liquids and gases. Observe the changes of state and identify these processes within the water cycle.
Everyday materials
Distinguish between an object and it’s material.
Name, group and compare common materials and describe their physical properties.
Animals, including humans
Identify, group and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals and compare their body parts.
Explain what an omnivore, carnivore and herbivore is.
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Sound
Identify how sound is made from vibrations which travel through the air. Investigate patterns with pitch and volume.
Electricity
Identify how electricity is used in everyday life. Construct and label a simple circuit. Investigate and recognise common insulators and conductors.
Changes over time
Understand and observe the important processes and changes in the natural world around them including the seasons and changing state of matter.
Plants
To understand what plants need to grow and how we can care for them as well as care for other things in our natural environment.
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Properties and uses of materials
Compare common materials and describe their physical properties.
Identifying plants and their parts
Identify and name common plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
Label and describe the structure of flowering plants.
Local habitats
Identify different animals’ habitats and describe simple food chains
Choosing materials
Investigate and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, for particular uses .
Growing seeds and bulbs
Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. Investigate the basic needs for a plant to stay to grow and stay healthy.
Growing up (animals and humans)
Research the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival. Explain the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.
Changing materials
Investigating and exploring the changes of materials through twisting, squashing and stretching.
Rocks, soils and fossils
Identify and compare different types of rocks, looking at appearance and physical properties. Explain how a fossil is formed.
Forces: friction and magnets
Investigate how objects move on different surfaces. Explain how magnets attract or repel each other.
Light and shadows
Explain why we need light and what darkness is. Investigate how a shadow is formed and when it’s size changes.
Movement and nutrition for the human body
Explain what nutrition humans need to survive. Identify the function of the skeleton and muscles.
Flowering plants life cycle
Label and describe the life cycle of flowering plants.
Changes of state
Compare and group different soils, liquids and gases. Observe the changes of state and identify these processes within the water cycle.
Forces and mechanisms
Investigate the effects of gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction.
Plant and animal life cycles
Compare the life cycles of a mammal, insect, amphibian and bird, including reproduction in some plants and animals.
Separating mixtures and changing materials
Investigate how to separate different mixtures and solutions. Identify that some changes are irreversible.
Classification of living things
Describe how living things are classified.
Evolution and inheritance
Identify evidence of evolution and how living things have changed over time. Recognise how offspring are not identical to their parents. Identify how animals are adapted to suit their environment.
Body health
Describe how nutrients and water are transported through the body.
Electricity: changing circuits
Investigate the effect of the voltage of a cell on the brightness of a lamp or volume of buzzer. Recognise the symbols used for components in a circuit.
Knollmead’s Learning Journey
Growing healthy plants
Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive..
Animals (vertebrates)
To understand the features of vertebrates. Group vertebrates into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
Electricity: circuits
Identify how electricity is used in everyday life. Construct and label a simple circuit. Investigate and recognise common insulators and conductors.
Properties and uses of materials
Group and compare different materials according to their properties.
Earth and space
Explain the orbits of the Earth and moon. Describe how rotation causes day and night.
Human growth
Describe the changes as humans grow older.
What light does
Explain how light travels and how objects are seen.
Human circulation
Identify, name and describe the functions of the main parts of the human circulatory system.
Seasons
Observe changes over the four season, including weather patterns and day length.
Human impact on the environment
To research the impact humans are having on the environment. Comparing and observing changes over time.
Human body and senses
Identify, name and label parts of the human body. Say which part of the body is associated with each sense.
Naming and describing materials
Name and describe an object and it’s material.
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Digestion and food chains
Name and describe the basic functions of parts in the digestive systems. Identify different teeth and their functions. Interpret and construct food chains.
Sound
Identify how sound is made from vibrations which travel through the air. Investigate patterns with pitch and volume.
Classification of plants and animals
Use classification keys to group and name different living things in their environment.
Animals and plants
To understand what animals plants need to grow and how we can care for them.
The local environment
Explore how to care for other things in our natural and local environment.
Flowering plants and plant grow
Name and explain the function of different parts of a flowering plant. Investigate how water is transported through a plant.
Objects and materials
Explore different materials and their uses.
Light, space, electricity and movement
Name and describe features of space. To observe how things move.