Science Overview

 

In line with National Curriculum specifications, a broad variety of topics is studied during the four years in Inglefield House.
The girls are taught by a Science specialist and take every opportunity to use the extensive resources within the Senior School Science laboratories.  The emphasis is on a practical and stimulating approach to learning.

Term

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

 

 

Michaelmas

 

Unit 3A Teeth and Eating

Unit 3E Magnets and springs

 

Unit 4A Moving and growing

Unit 4E Friction

 

Unit 5F Changing Sounds*

Unit 5E Earth, Sun and Moon*

 

Unit 6F How we see things

Unit 6C More about Dissolving

Unit 6A
Interdependence & adaptation

 

 

Lent

 

 

Unit 3F  Light and Shadows

Unit 3C

Characteristics of Materials

 

Unit 4C Keeping warm

Unit 4D

Separating solids & liquids

 


Unit 5C Gases around us*

 

Unit 5D Changing State

 

 


Unit 6B Micro-organisms

 

Unit 6G Changing circuits

 

 

 

Summer

 

Unit 3B Growing plants

 

Unit 3D Rocks and soils

 

Unit 4F Circuits & conductors   

 

Unit 4B Habitats

 

Unit 5A Keeping Healthy

 

Unit 5B Life Cycles

*Unit 5/6H Environmental and technological enquiry included where appropriate.

 

Unit 6D

Reversible & irreversible changes

 

Unit 6E Forces in Action