Year Group Topics

2020-2021

Year 5

Year 6

Year 7

Autumn 1

Forces

Types of enquiry

Light

Materials

Electricity

Lab safety

Forensics-investigative skills

Autumn 2

Earth and space

 Theft-practical

States of matter

Spring 1

Properties and changing materials

Detective style experiments 

Evolution and inheritance

Reversible and Irreversible changes 

Abduction-acids/alkali, metals and separation

Spring 2

Metals 

Physical Forces

Summer 1

Changes as humans develop into old age

Animal and human systems and organs

Physical forces 

Cells and their function 

Summer 2

Life cycles of animals and humans

RHSE

RHSE