| Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
| Identify functions of different parts of flowering plants, roots etc | Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways | Describe the differences in the life cycle of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird | Describe how living things are classified into broad groups to common observable characteristics.. |
| Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth and investigate the way in which water is transported within plants | Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things | Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals. Describe the changes as humans develop to old age | Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics |
| Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants | Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans | Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the earth because of the force of gravity | Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines |
| Compare and group together different kinds of rocks Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter | Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and identify a variety of food chains | Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and function that act between moving surfaces. Recognise that some mechanisms allow a smaller force to have greater effect | Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye |
