| Autumn 1 (Sept – Oct) | Autumn 2 (Nov – Dec) | Spring 1 (Jan – Feb) | Spring 2 (Mar – Apr) | Summer (May – Jun) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Topic Title | Getting the Energy your Body Needs. | Looking at Plants and Ecosystems. | Explaining Physical Changes. | Exploring Contact and Non-Contact Forces. | Magnetism and Electricity. | |
| Explaining Physical Changes. | Explaining Chemical Changes. | |||||
| Key Skills and Content | • The skeleton. | • Healthy plants: Survival and Growth. | • Using the particle model to explain properties, and physical or chemical changes. | • Gravity and space travel. | • How magnets work. | |
| • Muscles. | • Food chains & relationships in the environment. | • Acids, alkalis, indicators and reactions. | • Electrostatic and magnetic forces. | • Electromagnets. | ||
| • Aerobic respiration. | • States of matter & the particle model. | • Combustion. | • Pressure, floating and sinking. | • Explaining electric circuits. | ||
| • Anaerobic respiration. | • Series and parallel circuits. | |||||
| Summative | Combination of: | Combination of: | Combination of: | Combination of: | End of year cumulative test | |
| Assessment | End of unit test | End of unit test | End of unit test | End of unit test | ||
| and half-term Project | and half-term Project | and half-term Project | and half-term Project |
