| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
| Animals including humans fish, reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians (+ examples of each) herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, head, ear, eye, mouth, nose, leg, knee, arm, elbow, back wings, beak | Animals including humans survival, water, air,(oxygen) food, adult, baby, offspring, kitten, calf, puppy, foal, exercise, hygiene | Animals including humans bones, muscles, skull, ribs, skeleton, support, protection, movement, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, teeth, canine, incisor, molar | Animals including humans mouth, tongue, teeth, canine, incisor, molar, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore | Animals including humans foetus, embryo, womb, gestation, baby, toddler, teenager, puberty, adolescent, adult, elderly, development, growth | Animals including humans heart, blood, circulatory system, blood vessels, veins, arteries, valves, oxygenated, deoxygenated, exercise, pulse, respiration |
| Plants evergreen & deciduous trees, branches, trunk, leaves, flowers (blossom) petals, fruit, roots, bulb, seed, stem | Plants seeds, bulb, water, light, temperature, growth, revise roots, stem, leaves, petals from Y1 | Plants air, light, water, soil, nutrients, reproduction, seed formation, dispersal, germination, pollination, transportation, species, location (photosynthesis) | Living things and their habitats fish, Reptiles, Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, snails, slugs, worms, spiders, insects, environment, habitat, vertebrate, invertebrate, exo-skeleton, adaptation | Living things and their habitats reproduction of mammal, bird, insect and amphibian , offspring, complete / incomplete metamorphosis, hatch | Living things and their habitats classification, mammals, birds, amphibians, fish, reptiles, insects vertebrates, invertebrates, micro-organisms, bacteria, fungi |
| Everyday Materials material, wood, plastic, glass, paper, fabric, metal, rock, hard, soft, smooth, shiny, rough, bendy (flexible) | Living things and their habitats living, dead, habitat, microhabitat energy, food chain, prey, predator woodland, pond, desert | Rocks & Soils sandstone, limestone, granite, marble, pumice, slate, crystals, properties, permeable / impermeable, hardness, sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic, fossils, soil, organic matter, humus | States of Matter solid, liquid, gas, temperature, heating, freezing point, boiling point, particles, evaporation, condensation, thermometer, thermal insulation | Properties & changes of materials hardness, solubility, mixing, dissolving, melting, Solution, solute, transparency, conductivity, magnetic, filter, filtration, evaporation, condensation, reacting / reactants | Evolution & Inheritance fossils, adaptation, evolution, characteristics, reproduction, genetics |
| Seasonal changes Summer, Spring, Autumn, Winter, season, sun, day, moon, night, light, dark | Materials & their uses as for Y1 + stiff, shiny, dull, rough, smooth, waterproof, absorbent, transparent, opaque, brick, fabric, foil, squashing, bending, twisting, stretching, elastic | Light light, dark, shadows, blocking, mirror, reflect, reflective, reflection | Sound volume, vibration, sound wave, loud, soft, high pitch, low pitch, tone, speaker, (amplitude, frequency) | Earth & Space Earth, sea, sun, moon, axis, planets, solar system, star, constellation, Phases of the moon, waxing, waning, gibbous moon, full moon | Light reflection, refraction, lens, light spectrum, colour, prism, rainbow |
| Forces & Magnets force, push, pull, contact, magnetic, attract, repel, poles (north / south) friction, resistance | Electricity cells (batteries) wires, switches, circuit, series (parallel, buzzers, bulbs, mains electricity, insulators, conductors | Forces force, friction, Newton, gravity, newton meters, air resistance, water resistance, gears, pulleys, levers | Electricity cells, batteries, wires, bulbs, switches, buzzers, circuit, series/ parallel, conductors, insulators, amps, volts |
| Year 1 & 2 Working scientifically investigation, enquiry, what to change, what we used, what we did, what we found out | Year 3,4,5,6 Working scientifically investigation, enquiry, prediction, variable, dependent variable, independent variable, constant, patterns, equipment, apparatus, method, results, conclusion |