17 Science

Abbey Hulton Primary School

At Abbey Hulton Primary School you are welcome to come and see how science is taught in our setting. Our curriculum is progressive and ensures coverage of all National Curriculum objectives, designed to meet the needs of our pupils. We begin in Early Years where children begin to develop skills in observation, prediction, discussion and critical thinking.

These are developed as children move through each key stage as well as children developing their scientific subject knowledge. We have been lucky to have our governor, a science specialist, assist in upper key stage 2 for the last two years, looking at building the working scientifically skills into science. As a result, our children are becoming more confident in the core working scientifically skills.

Science

Forest Park Primary School

At Forest Park, our science curriculum aims to develop creative, curious and independent scientists who have the knowledge, skills, drive and passion to ‘SPARKLE’ and adapt in an ever-changing world. Our main objective is to create pupils that can question and query their observations of the world around them and develop their own understanding. Within this, we strive to build our science capital through encouraging pupils to challenge stereotypes and educate them about the full range of opportunities open to them and to raise their aspirations for their future.

• We believe great science learning occurs when:

1. Learning is purposeful, developing an understanding of the world around us and we understand how knowledge and skills are linked to other areas.

2. Children are encouraged to be curious, ask questions. They are interested in finding out more and sharing what they know.

3. Children take an active role in scientific enquiry, discover through hands-on investigations and are independent in making decisions. 4. Key knowledge and vocabulary are revisited regularly to promote long term learning.

5. Scientific skills are built upon to ensure progression in each stage of learning.

6. New learning is exciting, challenging and builds on existing knowledge to deepen understanding.

7. Children can make connections with what they are learning and real life context deepening their understanding of science, today and for the future.

8. The teaching of science inspires pupils through a range of positive role models to raise future aspirations.

Oakhill Primary School

The science curriculum at Oakhill has been designed to show clear progression with science objectives, knowledge and enquiry skills. All unit plans display prior knowledge, next knowledge and key knowledge to be learnt over the course of the unit. All lessons have a revisit/ review element to ensure that knowledge and understanding is recalled frequently, helping children to build schema.

Our science lessons are as practical as possible and the teacher takes on the role of facilitator, helping children to find out for themselves through reading, experimentation, discussion and questioning. The 5 lines of scientific enquiry are clearly planned for to ensure that children are exposed to a variety of enquiry based activities and we look at numerous scientists over the course of each year.

Watermill School

Watermill School has a specialist science laboratory and a specialist science teacher. Please contact us if you would like to discuss accessing this space and specialist equipment or would like to work together on science projects or develop scientific enquiry workshops. The space can accommodate a maximum of 15 pupils.