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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
Key Stage 1 Science
As part of our two year curriculum cycle our children will learn about the topics below. Each topic is covered several times and children will have the opportunity to revisit and embed prior learning through a wide variety of investigations and tasks.
- Plants, identifying and naming plants and looking at their basic structure, observing how seeds and bulbs grow into plants and what plants need to stay healthy
- Animals including humans, identifying and naming a range of animals and understanding how and why they are grouped (e.g. mammals, birds, amphibians etc), reproduction, nutrition and exercise
- Everyday materials, looking at their properties and comparing their uses and looking at how they can be changed by exerting force
- Seasonal changes, observing changes across the four seasons and looking at different types of weather
- Living things and their habitats, including dependence within habitats and micro-habitats
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.