The Digestive System | Learning Journal | Year 3&4

Perfect for Year 3&4, The Digestive System helps students explore how the body breaks down food and turns it into energy through an engaging nonfiction activity.

This resource explains the journey food takes through the digestive system, from the mouth to the stomach, intestines, and beyond. Students learn the role of key organs, including the liver, pancreas, and gall bladder, and discover how nutrients are absorbed to help the body grow, repair, and stay healthy.

Ideal for ELA, science, health, or STEM lessons, this Digestive System activity for Year 3&4 supports understanding of human biology, scientific vocabulary, and how the body works to keep us healthy.

Help your pupils create a record of thinking, not just complete another worksheet.

This Learning Journal shows pupils how to capture ideas, vocabulary, questions and reflections across reading, listening and discussion — built over time and owned by pupils.

This Learning Journal resource is designed to help pupils build a visible record of thinking across lessons, rather than completing one-off tasks.

Pupils create a two-page spread in their books that is added to gradually after different learning inputs, such as:

• assemblies
• reading texts
• listening comprehension
• short videos
• reflection or discussion tasks

Instead of filling in a worksheet, pupils choose thinking structures, organize ideas with purpose, and explain their understanding using sentence starters and prompts.

What this Learning Journal supports:

• deeper comprehension and reflection
• vocabulary development in context
• pupil ownership and choice
• flexible outcomes at different depths
• inclusive access for EAL, SEND and reluctant writers

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Learning Journals:
Turn learning into meaningful reflection with my Learning Journal templates, designed to help pupils capture key ideas, vocabulary, and thinking across any topic.

Bulletin Boards:
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Free Supporting Video
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