Our Science curriculum is inclusive and ensures that all pupils of all abilities can access and develop the range of skills needed to be successful scientists. By teaching science in short, intense two-week topic blocks, and by focusing on the key knowledge and skills outlined in our ‘Sticky Learning’, we aim to:

Prepare our children for life in an increasingly scientific and technological world today and in the future.

Help our children acquire a growing understanding of the nature, processes and methods of scientific ideas.

Help develop and extend our children’s scientific concept of their world.

Build on our children’s natural curiosity and developing a scientific approach to problems.

Encouraging open-mindedness, self-assessment, perseverance and developing the skills of investigations – including: observing, measuring, predicting, hypothesising, experimenting, communicating, interpreting, explaining and evaluating.

Develop the use of scientific language (subject-specific vocabulary to enrich pupils’ knowledge and understanding), recording and techniques.

Develop the use of computing in investigating and recording.

Make links between science and other subjects and considering this in everyday living.

Teach the three strands of science – Physics, Biology and Chemistry – in a cohesive, sequenced way from Year 1 to Year 6.

Build on and develop their scientific vocabulary. Through a whole-school approach of Word Aware, the vocabulary is graded on a scale of ‘Anchor’, ‘Goldilocks’ and ‘Step-up’ topic-specific words.

Opportunities for cross-curricular links are always used e.g. measurements and recording are linked in mathematic lessons as well as reading and writing opportunities across the curriculum including science.