Plants
To be able to identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees 
To be able to identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees

Everyday Materials
To be able to distinguish between an object and the material it is made from.

To be able to identify and name a variety of every day materials including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock.

To be able to describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials

To be able to compare and group together a variety of every day materials on the basis of their simple physical properties

Seasonal Changes
To observe changes across the four seasons

To observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

Plants
To be able to identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees

To be able to identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees

Animals Including Humans (Link to the minibeasts/creatures learned about in Where Do I Live?).

To be able to identify and name a variety of common animals including amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals

To be able to identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores

To be able to describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets)

To be able to identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense

Uses of Everyday Materials
To be able to identify and compare the uses of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses

Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching

Plants
To observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants

To find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy

Uses of Every Day Materials
To be able to identify and compare the uses of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses

Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching

Living Things and Their Habitats
To be able to explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive

To be able to identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other

To be able to identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats.

To be able to describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

To notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults

To find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)

To be able to describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food and hygiene.

Plants
Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers

Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant

Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants

Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal

Light
Recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light

Notice that light is reflected from surfaces
Recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes

Recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by a solid object

Find patterns in the way that the size of shadow changes

Rocks
Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties

Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped in rock

Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter

Forces and Magnets
Compare how things move on different surfaces
To notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance

To observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others

Animals Including Humans
Identify that animals…need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat

Identify that…some animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement

Plants
Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers

Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant

Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants

Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal

Animals Including Humans
Identify that animals…need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat

Identify that…some animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement

States of Matter
To be able to compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases

To be able to observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure and or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius

To be able to identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle

Electricity
To be able to identify common appliances that run on electricity

To be able to construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers

To be able to identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery

To be able to recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit To be able to recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

Living Things and Their Habitats
To be able to recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways

To be able to explore and use classification keys to help group, identify, and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment

To recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

Animals Including Humans
To be able to describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans

To be able to identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions

To be able to construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producer, predator and prey.

Sound
To be able to identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating

To be able to recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear

To be able to find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it

To be able to find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it

To be able to recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the source increases

Earth and Space
To be able to describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system

To be able to describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth

To be able to describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies

To use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky

Forces
To be able to explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object

To be able to identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces

To recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect

Living Things and Their Habitats
To be able to describe the difference in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird

To be able to describe the life processes of reproduction in some plants and animals

Animals Including Humans
To be able to describe the changes as humans develop to old age

To be able to draw a timeline to indicate stages in the growth and development of humans. Pupils should learn about the changes experienced in puberty.

To be able to work scientifically by researching the gestation periods of other animals and comparing them with humans; by finding out and recording the length and mass of a baby as it grows.

To be able to compare and group together every day materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets

To know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution

To be able to use knowledge of solids, liquids and gasesto describe how mixtures might be separated including through filtering, sieving and evaporating

To be able to give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, woods and plastic

To be able to demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes

To be able to explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials and that this kind of change is not usually reversible (irreversible), including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda

Electricity
To be able to associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit.

To be able to compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches.

To use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit diagram.

Animals Including Humans
To be able to identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.

Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function.

To be able to describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.

Living Things and Their Habitats
Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals

Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics.

Light
To be able to recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines

To 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

To be able to explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes

To use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them.

Evolution and Inheritance
To able to recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago

To be able to recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents

To be able to identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution