Science
Our Science curriculum is designed to excite children’s curiosity about the world and help them to understand the uses of science, as well as its implications for the future. Throughout school, pupils continuously develop their scientific vocabulary and enquiry skills as they revise different topics. This allows them to direct their own investigations as independent, active learners, seeking to answer their own questions.
We enrich our Science curriculum with school trips and hosting visits at the school. The children have been visited by the RSPB, who taught them about habitats and different types of trees. Some children also got the chance to take part in the Great Science share, where they demonstrated an investigation and explored different investigations from children at other schools.
Recently in school we had a visit from the Royal Institution who spoke to us about how viruses can spread and the Science around it. There were assemblies for KS1 and KS2 in the morning and then a workshop in the afternoon where parents were invited to take part. It was a fantastic day for everyone involved and the children learnt lots of interesting facts.
"I really enjoyed the Royal Institution assembly. Especially the part that was about spreading the flu. I was surprised how easily and quickly it can happen."
"I liked the workshop because our parents were there. I thought it was nice to learn together."
We have been lucky enough to have had a visit from Mad Science at our school. The children watched and took part in an assembly and then experienced workshops about different areas of science. It was an interesting, exciting and fun day which the children really enjoyed and learnt a lot from.
As children explored plantlife in Science, we decided to take a hands-on approach and helped children plant flowers across the school grounds. The children love getting their hands dirty and watching their plants grow!
Autumn 1 Topics -
Nursery - All about me - Continue to develop positive attitudes about the differences between people.
Reception - Me and my family - Explore the natural world around them. Manage their own needs– healthy eating.
Year 1 - Animals including humans - Identify and name animal groups; carnivores, herbivores and omnivores, parts of human body-link to senses.
Year 2 - Healthy me - In this topic, children explore the importance of exercise, diet and good hygiene.
Year 3 - Food and our bodies - This topic looks at where animals get food from and why it is important, and skeletons, muscles and joints.
Year 4 - Teeth and eating - Children learn about digestion and different types of teeth, before moving on to explore deadly predators and their prey, in their exploration of food chains. They work scientifically throughout the topic, using enquiry, practical experiments and hands-on research to answer questions and investigate how we eat, why we eat and what we eat.
Year 5 - Circle of life - In this topic children look at the life cycles of various species including mammals, amphibians, fish and birds. They also look at and describe the life process of reproduction in plants and animals.
Year 6 - Classifying living things - Children build on their learning about grouping living things in Year 4 by looking at the classification system in more detail. The topic is divided into two units, Children first revisit their knowledge of classification and creating keys, before developing their knowledge by looking at fungi and bacteria. Children also look at the work of Carl Linnaeus, the scientist who first made important the function of naming and classifying to ‘identify’ organisms.
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