Guiding Question: How do different living things change across the year?
Year 5 will follow the journeys of a chosen tree, insect, and bird throughout the seasons. Children will record changes such as flowering, nesting, moulting, and growth, capturing their findings in nature journals and scrapbooks. They will make predictions and compare evidence across time. By the end of the year, they will understand how living things adapt, grow, and change with the seasons.

In AUTUMN, children observed and learnt:

• Not all berries, fruits and nuts are edible to animals and humans.
• There are food sources in the school's environment that are part of a food web – humans eat apples, but these are also eaten by worms, squirrels and maggots.
• The children are expecting the food sources and habitats to change over the year. The children related this to the seasons and how weather and temperature affect living things.
• There is a lot of food available in Autumn. We found lots of leafy greens, berries, nuts, fruits, fungi and leaf litter. The children are expecting things to change in winter, and we will look at how this impacts the living things in our environment.