St Norbert's
Catholic Voluntary Academy

Year group

Advent 1

Advent 2

Lent 1

Lent 2

Pentecost 1

Pentecost 2

Year 1

Animals including Humans- Ourselves

identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with  each sense.

Seasonal Changes

observe changes across the 4 seasons;

Animals including humans

identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals;

identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores;

describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish,

amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets);

Plants

identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees;

identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants,  including trees.

Seasonal Changes

observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.

Everyday Materials

distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made;

identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock;

describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials;

compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on

the basis of their simple

physical properties.

Year 2

Animals including Humans

notice that animals, including   humans, have offspring which   grow into adults;

describe the importance for   humans of exercise, eating   the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

Materials

 identify and compare the   suitability of a variety of   everyday materials, including
  wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick,   rock, paper and cardboard for
  particular uses;

find out how the shapes of solid   objects made from some  materials can be changed by  squashing, bending, twisting   and stretching.

Food Chains- Living Things

describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food;

Plants

observe and describe how
seeds and bulbs grow into
mature plants;

Plants

find out and describe how plants need water, light and a   suitable temperature to grow   and stay healthy.

Significant Scientists

use their ideas and observations to explain how doctors use science; 

test materials to find out whether they are waterproof;

describe an ocean food chain identify renewable and non-renewable sources of energy;

describe the invention of wind turbines;

Year 3

Animals Including Humans/ Skeleton Structure

identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and
that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat; 

Animals Including Humans/ Skeleton Structure

identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

Rocks

compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties;

describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock

recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

Plants

identify and describe the
 functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers;

explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how
 they vary from plant to plant;

 investigate the way in which water is transported within plants;

explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

Light

recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light;

notice that light is reflected from surfaces;

recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes; recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object;

find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.

Magnets and forces

compare how things move on different surfaces;

notice that some forces need contact between 2 objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance;

observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others;

compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they
are attracted to a magnet, and identify some  magnetic materials;

describe magnets as having 2 poles; predict whether 2 magnets will
attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing.

Year 4

Living Things and their Habitats

recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways;

explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment

recognise that environments
can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.

Electricity

identify common appliances that run on electricity;

construct a simple series
electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs,  switches and buzzers;

identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery;

recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit;

recognise some common
conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.

Digestion and teeth

describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans;

Digestion and teeth

identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions;

construct and interpret a
variety of food chains,
identifying producers,
predators and prey.

Sound

identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating;

recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear;

find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it;

find patterns between the
volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it;

recognise that sounds get
fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

Materials - States of matter

compare and group materials  together, according to whether
they are solids, liquids or gases;

observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C);

identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.

Year 5

Space

describe the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the sun in the solar system;

describe the movement of the moon relative to the Earth;

describe the sun, Earth and moon as approximately spherical bodies;

use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.

Forces

explain that unsupported
objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object;

identify the effects of air
resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces;

Forces

recognise that some
mechanisms including levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

Materials

compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including
their hardness conductivity  (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets;

give reasons, based on
evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including  metals, wood and plastic;

Materials

know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution;

use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated including through filtering, sieving and evaporating;

demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes;

explain that some changes result in the formation of new  materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible,  including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

Living things

describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird;

describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.

Year 6

Light

recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines;

use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into
the eye;

explain that we see things
because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes;

use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them

Electricity

associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit;

compare and give reasons for variations in how components  

function, including the
brightness of bulbs, the
loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches;

use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Living things

describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and
differences, including  micro-organisms, plants  and animals;

 give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on  specific characteristics.

Animals including humans

identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood;

recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their
bodies function;

describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.

Inventors

give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on
specific characteristics;

identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood;

recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function;

recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information  about living things that
inhabited the Earth millions of years ago;

use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram.

Evolution and Inheritance

recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth
millions of years ago;

recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring
vary and are not identical to their parents;

identify how animals and
plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.