Science

We recognise that science is a key component in exploring and understanding the world. Science is about developing children’s ideas and ways of working, enabling them to make sense of the world in which they live, through investigation, enquiry as well as using and applying process skills.

The national curriculum for science aims to ensure that all pupils:

• develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics
• develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them
• are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses

Intent

Our curriculum has been developed to provide fun, practical and engaging high-quality teaching, ensuring coverage of the knowledge prescribed within the National Curriculum and carefully planned progression of enquiry skills. This method of teaching also supports learning access for all pupils, including SEND, as well as offering challenges and greater thinking opportunities, for more able children. Through this, we are able to equip children with the essential characteristics to help them become scientists.

Early Years 

In the EYFS National Curriculum, "science" is not explicitly listed as a separate subject, but is instead integrated into the curriculum. The most relevant statements for science are taken from the following Areas of Learning:

• Understanding the World

• Communication and Language

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Children are encouraged to explore their environment through observation, investigation, and questioning, developing basic concepts about living things, materials, and physical processes through hands-on experiences and play-based activities.