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."
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!
Summer 1 Topics -
Nursery - Living things and their habitat - Understand the key features of the life cycle of a Chick.
Reception - Living things and their habitat - Understand key facts of the life cycle of a Butterfly.
Year 1 - Plants - Identify and name a variety of plants and basic structure of flowering plants.
Year 2 - Little Master chefs - This topic explores food, including making healthy food choices, and cooking various different foods.
Year 3 - How does your garden grow? - Functions of different parts, conditions for growth, life cycles.
Year 4 - Power it up - Children revisit some uses of electricity and the importance of safety before constructing simple circuits. Understanding how to change a circuit by changing its components makes up the third part of this topic, leading in a final application of knowledge and skills when the children design and make an alarm using their knowledge of circuits.
Year 5 - Amazing changes - Planning enquiries controlling variables, making predictions, use observations to answer questions, gather and record data, draw conclusions, present, and report on findings.
Year 6 - Electricity - This topic builds on the Year 4 work on electricity, taking it into the scientific use of symbols for components in a circuit, as well as considering the effect in more detail of changing components in a circuit. The children have the opportunity to apply their learning by creating an electronic game.
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