Seasonal changes
| Nursery | • Understand the key features of the life cycle of a plant and an animal. (Nursery – Plants & Animals, excluding humans) |
| Reception |
• Explore the natural world around them. • Describe what they see, hear and feel whilst outside. • Understand the effect of changing seasons on the natural world around them. |
| Year 1 |
• Observe changes across the four seasons. • Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies. |
| Year 3 | • Recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes. (Y3 - Light) |
| Year 5 | • Use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky. (Y5 - Earth and space) |