Science

2025-26

Autumn Term

Animals including Humans - In this topic, children will build on their prior learning about how animals, including humans need to get nutrition from what they eat. They will explore the different organs of the digestive system in humans and the functions of teeth in both humans and animals.

Scientific knowledge:

• Children can name the different types of teeth found in humans and can explain their function. 

• Children can explain what tooth decay is and how to look after our teeth.
• Children can describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans.
• Children can construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.

We began our topic by setting up our own investigtion into tooth decay, using an egg as a model of a tooth.

The children will make predictions and then make careful scientific observations of the model tooth in different liquids.                                                     

2024-25

Summer Term

Plants - Scientific Knowledge:

Spring 1

Electricity - in Spring 1 we will be learning about Electricity, how it works and how we use it.

By the end of this unit the children should be able to -

• define what an electrical appliance is and identify those that are mains- or battery powered.
• identify different circuit components and explain what they do.
• build series circuits, identifying and explaining whether they are complete or incomplete.
• explain what electrical conductors and insulators are and give several examples of these.
• identify several different switches and explain how switches work in a circuit.
• apply their knowledge of electricity to different situations.

Spring 2 

States of Matter - the children will learn about the three states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. We will  explore how materials can change from one state to another through heating and cooling, focusing on processes like melting, freezing, evaporation, and condensation. The water cycle is also a key example of these changes in action. 

Autumn 1

Animals including Humans - This unit recaps the children’s learning from year 2 about how animals survive and stay healthy and helps children to learn more about what makes a healthy, balanced diet.

We will learn about:

• nutrients that different foods provide and how these nutrients help our bodies
• explore how different animals eat different types of foods and need different proportions of nutrients.
• understand what food labels on packaging show and gather information from food labels to help them to answer questions
• explore the different types of skeletons that animals have and compare these
• plan a fair test and measure and record accurately

We worked in groups to sort the different food groups.

Autumn 2

Rocks and Soils - we will be moving on to learn about Rocks and Soils this half term.