Focus Plan for Science
BROAD CHALKE C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL
FOCUSED PLANNING: SCIENCE Back to main curriculum page
YEAR | AUTUMN | SPRING | SUMMER |
1 | Physical processes - pushes and pulls 1E. | Sound and hearing. | Animal life Ourselves 1A |
Light & dark 1D. | Materials ? sorting and using 1C | Growing plants 1B | |
2 | Sc1 & Sc3 Materials & properties Grouping & Changing materials 2D. Sc1 & Sc4 Physical Processes Electricity 2F. | Sc1 & Sc2 Life Processes Health & Growth 2A. Sc1 & Sc4 Physical Processes Forces & Movement 2E. | Sc1 & Sc2 Life Processes Plants & animals in the local environment 2B. Variation 2C |
3 | Characteristics of materials (QCA 3C). Rocks and soils. (QCA 3D) | Magnets and springs (QCA 3E) Teeth and eating (QCA 3A) | Light and shadows (QCA 3F) Helping plants grow well (QCA 3B) |
4 | Friction (4E) Separation of solids and liquids (4D) | Keeping warm (4C) Circuits and conductors (4F) | Habitats (4B) - linked to Geography work on deserts and rainforests. Summer term 05: Rocks and soils. Investigation of light and shadow. Future summer terms: Moving and growing. |
5 | Gases around us (QCA 5C) Changing sounds (QCA 5F) | Keeping healthy (QCA 5B) Earth, sun and moon (QCA 5C) | Life cycles (QCA 5B) Changing state (QCA 5D) |
6 | Changing circuits (QCA 6G) How we see things (QCA 6F) More about dissolving (QCA 6C) | Forces in action (QCA 6E) Reversible and irreversible changes. (QCA 6D) | Micro-organisms (QCA 6B) Interdependence and Adaptation (QCA 6A) |