The table below shows all of the units that are taught from Y1 to Y6 at Christopher Pickering. Children are given knowledge organisers within lessons, KS2 children are asked to fill them in when they have an understanding of key vocabulary and objectives.
Should you wish to support your child at home, the knowledge organisers provide the key information that children will need to retain.
Parental Support:
Please find below a range of Science resources that will allow your child to continue their learning at home.
Virtual Tours
- Live animals webcams
- ExploreAmerican National Parks
- Visit the online collection from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Virtual Chester Zoo https://www.chesterzoo.org/virtual-zoo-2/
Children’s Activity Corner
All Pupils
- Let’s Go Live with Maddie and Greg: live lessons on a variety of science topics
- Glasgow Science Centre: bringing a bit of science into your home every day at 10am
- Science Museum: learning resources
- STEM Learning: activities to do at home
- IOP Moon Adventure: What’s it like to be an astronaut? Where did the Moon come from? What’s the future of humans in space?
- Science Sparks: experiments for children
- Cracking ideas: teaching and learning resources
- NASA Kids’ Club
- ASE: special coronavirus resources portal
- Dr Jo Science Solutions
EYFS
- Science Talk: help children (EYFS) develop their own scientific ideas with Science Talk from The Ogden Trust
KS1
- BBC Bitesize: daily lessons
- IOP Marvin and Milo: activities to try at home
- ExpeRimental: a series of short films making it fun, easy and cheap to do science experiments at home with your children
KS2
- Wow Science: searching out the best primary activities
- CREST At Home Challenge: challenges and project ideas to do at home
- Whizz Pop Bang: free science activities for home learning
- Resources from The Ogden Trust: curriculum resources for teaching, learning and working scientifically, as well as How to guides to help you encourage and develop physics at your school
- NASA Kids’ Club
- Jodrell Bank: science learning at home
- BBC Stargazing live: activity pack