YEAR GROUP Autumn 1st half Autumn 2nd half Spring 1st half Spring 2nd half Summer
Spring 1st half Spring 2nd half
1 I’m Alive
Description *London Zoo visiting; awareness of
animal needs.
*Introduce idea of composting and have
Y1 compost bins in outside area.
Plants and animals in the local
2 environment: “Our World”
Description 2b that humans and other animals need
food and water to stay alive.
Sustainable food production
2c that taking exercise and eating the
right types and amounts of food help
humans to keep healthy
2d about the role of drugs as medicines
Teeth and eating:
3 Unit 3A
Description 2Sc; 2a about the functions and care of
teeth.
2b about the need for food for activity
and growth, and about the importance of
an adequate and varied diet for health.
2c that the heart acts as a pump to
circulate the blood through vessels
around the body, including through the
lungs.
2d about the effect of exercise and rest
on pulse rate.
To walk to school instead of using the
car.
Treasure –
4 Circuits
Description Consider Why should we use
rechargeable batteries and other
renewable power sources
5 5EEarth Sun and Moon
Description To know shape and relative sizes of the
Earth, sun and moon. Introduce ideas
of the ozone layer – satellite
photographs etc
6 6a Interdependence and Adaptation
Summer 1st half
Words in the air
Use recycled containers to make
shakers etc.
Grouping and changing materials
“Buildings”
Look at how buildings can be made
more energy efficient
Characteristics of materials:
Unit 3C
How materials can be a finite
resource and we need to take care of
how they are used and mis used, e.g.
discarded plastic, fishing line, etc
causing harm to wildlife.
Young and Old –
Moving and Growing
2d about the effect of exercise and rest
on pulse rate.
2e that humans and some other animals
have skeletons and muscles to support
and protect their bodies and to help them
to move.
Understand that good nutrition is
essential to develop a healthy skeleton,
teeth and bones.
5AKeeping Healthy
that to stay healthy we need an adequate and
varied diet Tell children a story about
inadequate diets eg sailors developing scurvy,
babies from well-off families in eighteenth
century Paris surviving less well than babies
from poorer families, children in 3RD World
countries. Discussion of a sustainable crop
program as relief
6BMicro Organisms
6C More About dissolving
Summer 2nd half
Light and Dark
Save Energy by turning off appliances
etc that use energy. Replace battery
torches with hand powered ones.
Using electricity
QCA 2F: “The Stories People Tell”
Using Electricity
Saving energy,
Xmas card competition in KS1, design a
card with an energy saving theme
Soil and Rocks:
Unit 3D
Be aware of natural disasters and
their impact on the environment
Clean Water Dirty Water
– Solids, Liquids and Gases
Understand the importance of water
as a world resource
5FSound
To understand that some materials are
effective in preventing vibrations from
sound sources reaching the ear. To plan
and carry out test to measure how well
materials muffle sounds link to Noise
pollution
6EForces in Action
6DReversible and irreversible
changes
Pushes and Pulls Saving Water
SC2; 2b that humans and other animals
need food and water to stay alive.
3a Pupils should be taught to recognise
that plants need light and water to grow.
3c that seeds grow into flowering plants.
5c care for the environment.
Health and growth Variation
QCA 2A: “Olympics” QCA 2C: “Flowers and Insects”
2c, that taking exercise keeps us 2e treat animals with care and sensitivity
healthy Know that animals need to have their
Suggest pupils walk to school, or do habitats protected.
other activities, to try to
Magnets and Springs: Time and Place –
Unit 3E Light and Shadows: Unit 3F
Money makes the World go Round Chocolate
– Friction – Keeping Warm
Fairtrade- cocoa beans.
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5CGases Around Us 5BLife Cycles
that there are many gases and many of to consider conditions that might affect
these are important to us - traffic
germination and plan how to test them –
pollution factory pollution link with poverty in some countries –
need for International help to grow
crops and provide conditions for
production
6GChanging Circuits Go with the Flow Discovery Time
Time Detectives
Recycling; don’t waste materials, look at
how much they recycle at home and
complete survey.
Forces and movement
QCA 2E: “Holidays”
2c, that taking exercise keeps us
healthy
Suggest pupils walk to school, or do
other activities, to try to increase their
fitness.
Living Together. Habitat study.
Helping plants grow well: Unit 3B
SC2; 1b that the life processes common
to plants include growth, nutrition and
reproduction.
1c to make links between life
processes in familiar animals and
plants and the environments in which
they are found.
Understand that the world has finite
resources which need to be protected
and conserved. ‘Eco Superhero’
Do You Live Here?
– Habitats
4c that the variety of plants and animals
makes it important to identify them and
assign them to groups.
5a about ways in which living things
and the environment need protection.
5b about the different plants and animals
found in different habitats.
5c how animals and plants in two
different habitats are suited to their
environment.
5d to use food chains to show feeding
relationships in a habitat.
Solids Liquids and Gases
6HEnquiry in environmental and
technological contexts
Description that animals and plants in a local
habitat are interdependent.
how animals and plants in a local
habitat are suited toand dependent on
their environment
that food chains can be used to
represent feeding relationships in a
habitat. Importance of eco systems
to construct food chains in a particular
habitat. Removing one element has a
chain reaction – Destruction of the
rainforest.
to consider the reasons for some
common illnesses
that some micro-organisms can cause
common illnesses –need for clean
water sources , sewage , basic
hygene requirements
that decay can be beneficial
that micro-organisms which cause
decay are living organisms – compost
process
describe consequences if materials
aren’t allowed to decay eg if things
didn’t rot, rubbish would pile up
forever
that mixing materials can cause them to
change – chemical waste in rivers and
sea.
that the brightness of bulbs, or Revision and more practical Investigations.
speed of motors, in a circuit can activities on river habitats and
interdependency.
be changed . Use eco bulbs as
one element Chemical waste in Rivers.
that care needs to be taken when
components in a circuit are
changed to ensure bulbs/motors
do not burn out .
Children research and discuss
benefits of alternative sources of
energy to create a sustainable
environment eg wind water solar
power