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Plants​​​​​​​

Year-group Vocabulary/Statement(s)
Nursery plant, leaf, stem, branch, root, bark, flower, petal, seed, berry, fruit, vegetable, bulb, plant, hole, dig, water, weed, grow, shoot, die, dead, soil, names of plants they grow
Reception tree, bush, herb, names of plants they see (Reception - Living things and their habitats)
Year 1 leaf, flower, blossom, petal, fruit, berry, root, seed, trunk, branch, stem, bark, stalk, bud, names of trees in the local area, names of garden and wild flowering plants in the local area
Year 2

light, shade, Sun, warm, cool, water, space, grow, healthy, bulb, germinate, shoot, seedling

 

names of plants in local habitats and micro-habitats (Y2 - Living things and their habitats)

Year 3 photosynthesis, pollen, insect/wind pollination, male, female, seed formation, seed dispersal (wind dispersal, animal dispersal, water dispersal), air, nutrients, minerals, soil, absorb, transport
Year 4 classification, classification keys (Y4 - Living things and their habitats)
Year 5 life cycle, reproduce, sexual, fertilises, asexual, plantlets, runners, tubers, cuttings (Y5 - Living things and their habitats)
Year 6 flowering, non-flowering, mosses, ferns, conifers (Y6 - Living things and their habitats)