Science

APP science standards files

These examples show children’s work at different levels of science (standards files). Use the files to guide judgements about pupils’ levels as part of Assessing Pupils’ Progress (APP) in primary science.

• APP primary science standards file: Emma (Year 1 secure level 2)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows her making good progress from level 1 to level 2.

  • Describing and sorting materials

  • Investigating waterproof materials

  • Investigating magnetic materials

  • Investigating absorbent materials

  • Light and dark

  • Investigating reflective materials

  • Looking at rainbows

  • Assessment summary

  • Acknowledgements

• APP primary science standards file: Manushree (Year 3 secure level 3)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows her work is at secure level 3, moving onward to level 4 within a year.

  • Investigating different types of teeth

  • Investigating pulse rate

  • Investigating opaque materials

  • Investigating sound levels

  • Plants

  • Assessment summary

  • Acknowledgements

• APP primary science standards file: Trenyce (Year 1 secure level 1)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows her making progress from a very simple low level 1 achievement to a secure level 1 judgement.

  • Light and dark

  • Life cycles: Ourselves

  • Life cycles: Butterflies

  • Teddy materials

  • Investigating how to keep Teddy dry

  • The Garden Gang: Growing plants

  • Assessment summary

• APP primary science standards file: Luke A (Year 3 secure level 2)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows him working at level 2.

  • Investigating where woodlice like to live

  • Bird data

  • The human life cycle

  • Teeth

  • Investigating the dissolving of sugar

  • Bones

  • Designing paper planes

  • Assessment summary

• APP primary science standards file: Ciaran (Year 6 low level 5)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows him developing his scientific thinking from a sound base in level 4 to a real impact on the more sophisticated criteria at level 5.

  • Investigating light-reflecting surfaces

  • Crisps and healthy eating

  • Filtering

  • Investigating air resistance

  • Investigating friction

  • Points of view

  • Assessment summary

• APP primary science standards file: Christopher (Year 4 low level 4)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows him making good progress into level 4.

  • Investigating how to keep an ice lolly cool

  • Bones

  • Investigating whether the person with the longest arms has the biggest head

  • Explaining friction

  • Forces and air resistance

  • Habitats and adaptations

  • Assessment summary

• APP primary science standards file: Luke B (Year 5 secure level 3)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows him working at secure level 3.

  • Exploring boiling and evaporation

  • Investigating the effect of air flow on evaporation

  • Investigating the effect of location on the saltiness of water

  • How to get the air out of a test tube

  • Summer rain

  • Assessment summary

• APP primary science standards file: Holly (Year 6 high level 4)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows her working at level 5 in her literacy work and at high level 4 in science.

  • Coastal erosion

  • Cola can science

  • Investigating parachutes

  • Designing a bath mat

  • Electricity explanations

  • Fair-testing data

  • Assessment summary

• APP primary science standards file: Joshua (Year 2 high level 1)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows him working at high level 1 in science.

  • Listening to sounds

  • Describing and sorting sounds from instruments

  • Investigating the direction of sounds

  • Investigating sounds from far away

  • Investigating materials to make a raft

  • Investigating ice balloons

  • Assessment summary

• APP primary science standards file: Zoe (Year 6 secure level 5)

  This exemplar Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) primary science standards file illustrates a pupil's work and shows her working at a secure level 5.

  • Iron ships

  • Helpful and unhelpful friction

  • Investigating crystal formation

  • Alien plant

  • A night in Lymstone

  • Investigating 'Eco-Roll'

  • Assessment summary