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Key Stage 1
What does your child learn in Science in Key Stage 1?
Throughout Key Stage 1 science lessons, your child will be learning about the importance of asking questions, gathering evidence, carrying out experiments and looking at different ways of presenting their results. Lessons are practical and will focus on the world around them.
In Key Stage 1 your child will learn to use the following methods, processes and skills:
- asking simple questions (for example, 'What would happen if I didn't give a plant water?')
- observing closely, using simple equipment such as a magnifying glass
- identifying and classifying
- using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
- gathering and recording data to help in answering questions
Children in Year 1 will learn about:
- Plants, identifying and naming plants and looking at their basic structure
- Animals including humans, identifying and naming a range of animals and understanding how and why they are grouped (e.g. mammals, birds, amphibians etc)
- Everyday materials, looking at their properties
- Seasonal changes, observing changes across the four seasons and looking at different types of weather
Children will be looking at:
- Living things and their habitats, including dependence within habitats and micro-habitats
- Plants, observing how seeds and bulbs grow into plants and what plants need to stay healthy
- Animals including humans, focusing on reproduction, nutrition and exercise
- Everyday materials, comparing their uses and looking at how they can be changed by exerting force.
Click a year group to view information about the areas of the National Curriculum that our children will be taught and will be learning about in each year.