(Year 5 & 6) Upper Key Stage 2

FSC Course: Living things and their life cycles (Year 5 & 6) Upper Key Stage 2

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

SAFETY All activities and Pond life cycles sites are risk assessed. Adult: child ratio of 1:8.  Introduce invertebrates and habitats. CLOTHING Appropriate  Pond dipping. outdoor clothing. Indoor &  Observe life cycles of insects and amphibians and use outdoor footwear/ wellies. real world examples to create and label life cycles. TRANSPORT  Identify pond life using keys and sort animals into groups BEHAVIOUR Teachers are responsible for good behaviour & lunchtime Lunch supervision.

NAME LABELS If possible Plant life cycles please provide children with name labels.  Discuss pollination and investigate examples in the SHOP Pocket money for local environment the shop.  Explore the woodlands, observing and collecting examples of plant life cycles in flowering and non- RESOURCES All resources are provided. flowering plants  Play games and get hands on with the natural world to ICT Use of digital cameras deepen understanding or iPads to record the day’s activities.

NATIONAL CURRICULUM The activities will allow differentiated outcomes. All the students will cover the content below, but some students will progress further in their ASSESSMENT understanding. Progress assessed by open- ended questioning, ongoing peer discussion, comparing Animals, including humans results to predictions and  Identify and group animals plenary sessions, including AfL games.  Understand that some invertebrates have different life stages PRIOR LEARNING Living things and their habitats Discuss the differences in the  (Pupils should) study and raise questions about their local life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, and insect and a environment throughout the year bird  Observe life cycle changes in a variety of living things  Work scientifically FUTURE LEARNING Comparing animals and plants  Recognise and describe how living things can be grouped using in their local environment with common observable characteristics and based on similarities and other plants and animals differences. around the world