Science

In Locking we teach the HEP Science Curriculum in years 3-6. Our implementation was a four year roll out program to ensure pupils had in depth knowledge to enable them to access the following year. As a result in 2025-2026 years’ 5 and 6 will teach the same units and year 6 will do an additional field study in the summer term to bridge the gaps identified.

Locking Primary School	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Year 1	Animals including Humans – longitudinal study
	Seasonal changes – longitudinal study
	Everyday materials		Everyday materials Plants			Everyday materials
Year 2	Uses of Everyday Materials	Animals and Humans needs for survival and what they need.	Living Things and Their Habitat	Living things and their habitats and Sustainability (plastics)	Plants, bulbs and seeds	Growing Up  Sustainability (Wildlife)  Butterfly diaries
Year 3	Plants Parts of plants, needs of plants and their life cycle.	Rocks Comparing different rocks, fossils, soil formation	Light Light sources, how light reflected off objects, how shadows form, changing shadows, eye protection	Animals including humans Nutrition, Musculoskeletal system for support, movement, and protection	Forces and magnets Non-contact forces, attraction and repulsion of magnets, magnetic materials and the N and S pole of magnets	Bee project A look at the relationship between bees and their environment; importance in pollination, food and other resource.
Year 4	States of matter/ solids, liquids and gases Group materials based on their properties, changes ofstate, heating and cooling, the water cycle	Animals including humans Eating, teeth, digestive system and food chains, producers, predators and prey.	Sound Making sounds, vibrations, the ear, changes in pitch and volume	Living things and their habitats Classification, characteristics, and the effects of environmental changes	Electricity Appliances, building circuits and identifying components, circuit diagnostics, conductors and insulators	The History of Science This unit focuses on the development of scientific theories by a diverse range of scientists and inventors, both historical and contemporary.
Year 5	Properties and changes of materials Classifying materials, Dissolving, separating and changes of state, uses of materials, reversible and irreversible changes	Animals including humans Life cycles, plant and animal reproduction, human life cycle	Forces Gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction between moving surfaces, multiplying forces using levers, pulleys and gears	Living things and their habitats Classifying living things, Life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds	Earth and space The movement of Earth, other planets and the Moon in relation to the Sun and each other, spherical bodies, night and day	Properties and changes of materials The Scientific Method The unit looks at the steps that scientists follow when thinking about a problem and how to solve it.
Year 6	Properties and changes of materials Classifying materials, Dissolving, separating and changes of state, uses of materials, reversible and irreversible changes	Animals including humans Life cycles, plant and animal reproduction, human life cycle	Forces Gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction between moving surfaces, multiplying forces using levers, pulleys and gears	Living things and their habitats Classifying living things, Life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds	Earth and space The movement of Earth, other planets and the Moon in relation to the Sun and each other, spherical bodies, night and day	Properties and changes of materials The Scientific Method The unit looks at the steps that scientists follow when thinking about a problem and how to solve it.