Science is a wonderful subject to develop the key skills of curiosity, perseverance, reflecting and thinking!
INTENT
In accordance to our curriculum intent we feel science should:
HEAD: Acquire scientific knowledge and think critically within investigative activities
HEART: Challenge stereotypes and develop learning about how the world works
HANDS: Provide hands on and practical memorable experiences
IMPLEMENTATION
Our primary aim in science is for children to be able to question about the world around them - and have strategies available to them in order to answer that question.
Across our school we have developed a common approach to scientific investigation and is progressively built upon until children are fully confident in:
- Posing questions
- Making reasoned predictions
- Developing methods to answer questions
- Fair testing
- Collecting results
- Drawing conclusions
We ensure every class learn about a diverse range of scientists and follow the national curriculum programme to ensure a progressive and sequential curriculum map.
IMPACT
Formative judgements are made through observations, marking and recorded through Teacher App. Summative assessments are usually made at the end of a unit through a triangulation of observations, evidence in books and assessment tasks stated in the medium term plans.