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!
Spring 2 Topics -
Nursery - Plants - Plant seeds and care for growing plants.
Reception - Plants/Magnets - To identify parts of a plant and understand the growth of a plant. To understand that magnets attract and repel objects.
Year 1 - Seasonal Change - Observe changes across seasons, weather and day length.
Year 2 - Our Local Environment (Animals including humans) - This topic brings together study of living things, habitats and growing plants and is strongly focussed on outdoor learning and investigations.
Year 3 - Light and Shadows - Light, shadows, and dangers of sun.
Year 4 - What's that Sound? - Children will already know many things about sound, even without any formal teaching of it. They will encounter how sounds are made on a variety of instruments and how they can be changed in volume, pitch and over distance. They will explore making sounds on a range of objects that aren’t instruments, in order to investigate how sounds are created to make music.
Year 5 - Material World - In this topic, the children learn about materials and how they change. First, they test properties of materials before looking at how materials dissolve, what a solution is and evaporation. Finally, children compare reversible and irreversible changes.
Year 6 - Healthy Bodies - In this topic children build on learning from Years 3 and 4 about the main body parts and internal organs (skeletal, muscular and digestive system). It considers life processes that are internal to the body, such as the circulatory system. The impact of lifestyle on bodies, particularly of humans, is also considered. Scientists are continually finding out what is good and bad for us, and their ideas do change as more research is carried out.
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