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) |