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.
This year for British Science week we were very lucky to have visitors from Mad Science. They carried out a variety of science experiments that amazed and intrigued our children. The children in years 3 and 4 then had the opportunity to take part in workshops where they carried out some of their own investigations. We also took part in the poster competition which this year was about adaptations.
"I really enjoyed the Mad Science assembly. Especially the part that was about gravity. I don't know how the ball didn't fall onto the floor."
"I liked the workshop because it was about Rocks, which was our Science topic at the time."
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 2 Topics -
Nursery - Under the Sea - Explore and talk about different forces they can feel.
Reception - Under the Sea - Explore how things work.
Year 1 - Working Scientifically - Questioning, observations, simple tests, identify and classify, use observations to answer questions, gather and record data.
Year 2 - Young Gardeners - This topic brings together study of living things and habitats and is strongly focussed on outdoor learning and investigations.
Year 3 - The Nappy Challenge - This topic looks at disposable nappies and provides opportunities for children to ask their own questions and make decisions on how to answer their questions using different scientific enquiry activities.
Year 4 - The Big Build - In this topic, children learn about building towers and bridges, starting with constructing tall towers, then exploring bridges, next they look at animals as builders and finally engage in researching famous engineers and architects and the structures they built. Children will already know many things about the materials they will encounter, how different materials stretch and their uses.
Year 5 - Growing Up and Growing Old - In this topic, children look at and describe the changes as humans develop to old age. Pupils draw a timeline to indicate stages in the growth and development of humans and learn about the changes experienced in puberty.
Year 6 - The Titanic - Children engage in a different approach to their science in this topic. They use their science and link it to an historical event in context; the sinking of the Titanic. This topic is based around applying the working scientifically skills that they have learned so far in their science lessons, to explore some of the scientific concepts behind the Titanic, e.g. floating and sinking. It can be used as a good opportunity to embed, assess and observe working scientifically skills, as well as laying foundations for transition to KS3 science.
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