Intent

​In science, we inspire our children by giving them the opportunities to pursue their natural curiosity; promoting the experience of exploring and investigating scientific phenomena, in a range of contexts, to ensure a continually evolving knowledge and understanding of the world around them. Our children will be encouraged to ask questions, take risks, experiment, reflect, revise their thinking and learn from evidence in a safe environment; whereby they acquire and apply core skills, which equip them for an ever-changing world. Our curriculum provides experiences where children can secure and extend their scientific knowledge and vocabulary as well as support their numeracy and literacy skills. While not all children will follow a career in science or related disciplines when they leave the school system, science literacy will influence their lives daily: for example, managing their health and understanding issues such as climate change.

Implementation

Science is taught under three domains; chemistry, physics and biology, which are progressively built on through Key Stage 2 so that children can achieve depth in their learning. Science topics are linked whenever possible to our text driver and with other subject areas in order to provide meaningful links in learning across the curriculum.

Teachers have identified the specific knowledge and skills of each topic relating to the Chris Quigley milestone statements; these are mapped across the school, ensuring that knowledge builds progressively and that children develop skills systematically so that they learn more, know more & remember more. This will also ensure that scientific enquiry and topic specific vocabulary will be introduced and built upon progressively.  

Tasks are selected and designed to provide appropriate challenge to all learners, in line with the school’s commitment to inclusion. Within lessons, learning is carefully sequenced to enable pupils to acquire new knowledge, apply what they have learned and make meaningful connections within and across scientific domains. Opportunities to work scientifically are deliberately planned throughout the curriculum, enabling pupils to ask questions, make observations, gather evidence, identify patterns, interpret findings and draw conclusions.

Impact

Pupils develop secure and connected scientific knowledge, use scientific vocabulary accurately and apply their understanding to explain, predict and question scientific phenomena. They demonstrate increasing confidence in working scientifically and are able to recall and build upon previously taught learning. Evidence of impact is gathered through pupil voice, work scrutiny, lesson visits and assessment information.