INTENT 
South Tawton Primary School follows the national curriculum for Science and the Early Years Guidance for Understanding the World which aims to ensure that all children:

• develop scientific knowledge and understanding through the disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics; 
• are able to answer scientific questions relating to the world around them by using different types of science enquiry; 
• ​are aware of how science is used in our everyday lives - home and work - and the need for science, today and in the future; 
• explore and investigate the World around them, People and Communities and Technology in their Early Years. 

AIMS

• Teachers create a positive attitude to learning science with high expectations for all children. We have a progressive approach to the teaching and learning. Science teaching involves: 
  • identifying  a clear intent for all science lessons in particular all practical tasks; 
  • asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways; 
  • undertaking practical work in realistic environments to answer questions by observing, testing and classifying; 
  • gathering and recording data to help answer questions; and 
  • linking scientific learning across other curricular area. 

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Year 1	​Human Body & Senses Seasonal Changes	​Everyday Materials Plants & Animals	​Everyday Materials Animals including Humans
Year 2	Animals including Humans Animals including Human	​Uses of Everyday Materials Uses of Everyday Materials	Living Things Plants
Year 3	Rocks Light	Forces Magnets	Plants Animals including Humans
Year 4	Electricity Sound	States of Matter Living Things and their Habitats	Animals including Humans Living Things and their Habitats
Year 5	Earth & Space Forces	Animals including Humans Living Things and their Habitats	Properties of Materials Changes of Materials
Year 6	Light Living Things and their Habitats	Electricity Electricity	Animals including Humans Evolution & Inheritance

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