Life Processes

Expedition Date: February

Expedition Description: P4 AgraLiving School Visits: Discover How the Sun Powers Life in Bermuda!

Objectives

This engaging experience connects directly to our beautiful local surroundings while supporting Cambridge Primary Science objective 4Bp.03.

• Experience their role as caretakers of living systems through gardening
• Understand that the Sun is the main source of energy for life on Earth
• Explain photosynthesis as the way plants make food using light
• Recognise plants as essential receivers and transformers of energy
• Identify producers, herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers
• Understand that soil returns nutrients to support new life

A free copy of the Mentor Text is provided at the expedition: Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm

Vocabulary Voyage

The P4 Life Processes thematic unit is built around the mentor text Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm, supporting ELA curriculum-aligned literacy learning alongside an experiential school visit with AgraLiving as part of the Horizons Programme.

The Vocabulary Voyage offers a set of optional resources designed to enrich language learning in an engaging and practical way. Three short vocabulary activities (approximately five minutes each) encourage pupils to develop language through small-group discussion, collaboration, and creative thinking. Two additional independent writing tasks, linked to the theme of the unit, allow pupils to apply new vocabulary in meaningful written contexts. These resources are designed to support oral language development, vocabulary growth, comprehension, and writing skills, while remaining easy to incorporate into short literacy blocks or small pockets of classroom time.