Science
In Science pupils develop their knowledge and understanding of scientific ideas and processes. They are encouraged to develop skills of prediction, ask questions, and making sensible inferences and evaluations based on their first hand observations and experiences. Science lessons are taught in fully equipped laboratories. At KS1 and KS2 the curriculum follows a scheme of work which is topic based involving enquiry and investigative skills, life processes and living things, materials and their properties and physical properties. At KS3 the relevant Common Entrance syllabus is followed in Biology, Physics and Chemistry.
SCIENCE
LONG TERM PLANNING
| Year Group | Term 0ne | Term two | Term three |
| Year 1 | Ourselves
| Sorting materials | Growing Plants |
| Year 2 | Materials and their properties | Plants and animals in the local environment | Health and Growth |
| Year 3 | Teeth & Eating. Materials. | Rocks & Soil. Magnets & springs. | Light & shadows Helping plants grow well |
| Year 4 | Moving and growing Habitats | Keeping warm Circuits & conductors | Solids and liquids Friction |
| Year 5 | Human Organ systems Keeping healthy Gases | Changing state Life cycles | Earth, Sun, Moon Sound |
| Year 6 | Food chains Micro-organisms / microscopes.
| Reversible / irreversible changes Dissolving Seeing things
| Circuits Forces Classification. Body Skeleton Reproduction/sex ed |
| Year 7 | Safety in the laboratory. Equipment + use of. Particles, elements, compounds and mixtures Metals &non metals Forces & pressure. | Human body-digestion, breathing, healthy living, movement, Puberty/ reproduction Water. Dissolving, solutions Heating and Cooling | Green machine. Microbes./Microscopes Solar system, gravity. Environmental feeding relationships. Food cycle/ decomposition Predator - Prey. |
| Year 8 | Variation Classification Photosynthesis Light, Sound, Speed. Acids/Alkalis Environmental chemistry | Limestone Electrical circuits, Energy Solar System Forces and their effects | Revision Human body /organs Classifying materials Separating mixtures Cells and function Exam practice |
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