Curriculum Overview 2026-2027
Curriculum Overviews
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Having fun with magnets! Children talk about and explore the different forces they can feel!
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Water play! Children explore how things work!
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Looking at seeds. Children talk about what they see using a wide range of vocabulary.
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Planting petunias! Planting seeds and caring for our growing plants.
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Making vegetable salad and learning about what food makes our bodies healthy.
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Learning about one of our senses - sight! Children explore ways to build a tower using just their sense of touch.
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Writing what materials our objects are made from.
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Deciding whether something is an object or a material.
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Describing the physical properties of objects.
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Our Umbrella Investigation! Which material would make the best umbrella for Teddy and why?!
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The Curtain Investigation! Which material would be better for a curtain in the bedroom and why?!
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Going on a spring walk! I found a buttercup!
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Can you see the signs of spring? Yes - bluebells!
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Here are some dandelions!
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Counting mini-beast habitats.
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Looking for mini-beasts.
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We're going on a bug hunt!
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Adding food colouring to water. Will it change the colour of our flower?
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Testing to see if the food colouring will change the flower colouring. Is this a fair test?
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Exploring magnets.
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We can find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.
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I notice that light is reflected from surfaces.
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I recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object - like me!!!
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Exploring magnets and how they can attract some materials, but not others.
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Reflecting light!
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Our work with magnets and learning about forces!
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Explaining how the distance of the light source changes the size of the shadow! Great vocabulary!
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Noticing that light is reflected!
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Recognising that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
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Being scientists in our new laboratory! Exploring states of matter.
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Investigating electricity and constructing simple electrical circuits.
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Learning about open and closed circuits in electricity.
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Identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers!
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VR time!
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Recognising that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
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Exploring and using classification keys to help group living things.
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Investigating how sugar impacts our teeth.
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Learning about teeth as part of the digestive system and looking at the similarities and differences between eggs and teeth.
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Identifying and describing the simple functions of the digestive system in humans.
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Learning about our digestive system.
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Growing cress for our mini ecosystems.
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Growing cress for our mini ecosystems. Enquiry type: Observing over time.
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Setting up simple practical enquiries.
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Using equipment in our science lab.
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Recognising that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
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Identifying the effects of air resistance on a pendulum.
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Recording our data in a line graph - showing air resistance.
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Learning about circuits in electricity.
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Buzzers and bulbs!
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Creating animals that have adapted to suit specific environments.
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Creating animals that have adapted to suit specific environments.