The principal focus of science teaching in upper Key Stage 2 is to enable pupils to develop a deeper understanding of a wide range of scientific ideas. They should do this through:
 

• Planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary
• Taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate
• Recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs
• Using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests
• Reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations
• Identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments

These will be taught through the following topics:

• Living things and their habitats                                                                                                           
• Animals including humans                                                                                 
• Properties and changes of materials                                                                                    
• Earth and Space   
• Forces                                                                                                    
• Evolution and Inheritance                                                                                                         
• Light                                                                                                                               
• Electricity