Willen Primary School
Science teaching across the school 2015-16
Year
EYFS
Autumn Term
Term 1
Term 2
Ourselves
Celebrations
Spring Term
Term 3
Traditional Tales
Term 4
Transport
Summer Term
Term 5
Term 6
Animals
Adventure
30 – 40 Months
50 – 60 Months
Early Learning Goal
Comments and asks questions about aspects of
their familiar
world such as the place where they live or the
natural world.
• Can talk about some of the things they have
observed such as
plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Talks about why things happen and how things
work.
• Developing an understanding of growth, decay
and changes
over time.
• Shows care and concern for living things and
the environment.
Looks closely at similarities, differences,
patterns and change.
Children know about similarities and
differences in relation to places, objects,
materials and living things. They talk
about the features of their own
immediate
environment and how environments
might vary from one another. They make
observations of animals and plants and
explain why some things occur, and talk
about changes.
Dinosaurs
Seasonal changes
(Autumn to Winter)
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1
Identify
Observe
Investigate
Weather patterns
Day length
Pirates
2
Toys/Colour
Everyday materials
 Identify
 Describe
 Group and
compare
Celebrations
Living things and
their habitats
Uses of everyday
materials
 Living, dead, never
alive
 Habitats – plants
and animals
 Identify, observe
and compare
 Food chains
 Identify and
compare
materials
 Identify, classify,
investigate
properties
Castles
Seasonal changes
(Winter to Spring)
 Identify
 Observe
 Investigate
Fairy Tales
Traditional Tales
Plants
 Seeds and bulbs –
observe, describe
and record
 Describe what
plants need to
grow
 Investigate
Fairy Tales
Plants
 Identification
 Observation
 Describe basic
structure
including trees
Great Fire of
London
Growing/
Farms
My Amazing
Body
Animals,
Evaluating and
including humans Assessment
 Identification
 Human body
and senses
 Identify basic
parts of the
human body
Lauren Child
Zoos
Animals, including
humans
Animals,
Evaluating and
including humans Assessment
 Offspring
 Basic needs of
animals and
humans
 nutrition
 exercise
 hygiene
Autumn Term
Term 1
Term 2
Mountains and
Mountains and
Volcanoes
Volcanoes
Year
The skeleton
(animals, including
humans)
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3
Skeleton and muscles
– support, protection
and movement
Term 3
Ancient Greece
Light and Shadow
Plants
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Romans
Importance of light
Reflection
Dangers of light
sources
Light safety
How shadows are
formed
Patterns in shadow
sizes
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Romans
Identify and describe
functions
Requirements for
plants to survive
Investigate water
transportation in
plants
Life cycles
Summer Term
Term 5
Term 6
Stone Age/
Iron Age
Bronze Age
Term 4
Ancient Greece
Rocks (including
fossils)
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Shang Dynasty
Compare and group
rock based on
physical appearance
How fossils are
formed
How soil is formed
Nutrition
Magnets (Force)
 nutrition and
food
 How things move
on surfaces
 Explore how
forces work
 Describe, predict,
explore magnets
 Magnets – attract
and repel
 Explore nonmagnetic and
magnetic
materials
Shang Dynasty
Rainforests
Rainforests
States of matter
Human Body
Human Body
Living things
Sound
Electricity
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Digestion
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Food chains
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4
Spring Term
S, L, G
Observe changes of
state
Water cycle –
evaporation,
condensation,
temperature
Teeth
Different types
Functions of teeth
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Name a variety of
living things
Classification keys
Habitats
Environmental
change and impacts
How sounds are
made
 Sounds and the
ear
 Patterns in pitch
of a sound and
features of
objects that
produce sound
 Volume of sound
and strength of
vibrations
 Sound and
distance
Common
appliances
 Construct a
simple series
circuit
 Investigate
different
variables within
a circuit
 Recognise
common
conductor and
insulators
Anglo Saxons
Living things
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Reproduction in
plants and animals
Differences in life
cycles
Vikings
Earth, Sun and
Moon
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WW2
Living things
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6
Classification
Micro organisms
Movement of Earth
and other planets
Describe the Sun,
Earth and Moon
Earth’s rotation: day
and night
North America
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Fossils and living
things – evolution
Offspring
Animals and plants adaptation
UK Local Area
Forces
Human Body
Materials
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Gravity
Air resistance, water
resistance, friction
Forces involved within
mechanisms
Birth to death
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Crime and
Punishment
Evolution and
Inheritance
South America
Eastern Europe
Maya Civilisation
Human Body
Electricity
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Nutrition and how it’s
transported within
animals and humans
Impact of: diet,
exercise, drugs and
lifestyle on their
bodies
Name and describe
the Circulatory system
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Voltage and cells
within a circuit
How components
function within a
circuit
Represent a simple
circuit through
diagrams
Compare and
group properties
Dissolving to
form solutions
Separating
mixtures
Reversible and
non- reversible
changes
Water and
Coasts
Willen – Our
Local Area
Materials (cont.)
Planning
Investigations
Moving On
Light and how we Revision topics
see
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How light travels
How light travels
to the eye
Shadows