Science
Science at Shenton:
We aim to teach our children the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to question and understand concepts and phenomena that occur in the world around them and equips them with the motivation to seek explanations for these. Children learn the skills required for scientific enquiry and they will begin to appreciate the way science will affect their future on a personal, national and global level. The school’s policy for Science follows The National Curriculum 2014 for Science Guidelines and the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and 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 a variety of different scientific enquiries that help them to answer questions about the world around them
- Are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of Science, today and for the future
- Are encouraged to understand how Science can be used to explain what is occurring, predict how things will behave, and analyse causes where suitable, adaptations have been made to suit our school’s environment and ethos
Aims:
- Ask and answer scientific questions
- Plan and carry out fair scientific investigations, using equipment including computers
- Know and understand the life processes of living things
- Know and understand the physical processes of materials, electricity, light, sound and natural forces
- Know about materials and their properties
- Evaluate evidence and present their conclusions clearly and accurately
Intent:
At Shenton Primary school we teach themed science units that are planned using a progressive knowledge and skills based curriculum that culminates in the end of key stage national curriculum outcomes.
Children will all have the opportunity to develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics and 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, within the EYFS curriculum, the focus is on understanding of the world in which children are able to express their curiosity and have the freedom to explore a variety of scientific concepts and materials. In each year group, children will also develop an understanding of a wide breath of vocabulary linking to their units of work. In each year group, children will also develop an understanding of a wide breadth of vocabulary linked to their units of work. Through blocked units of learning, our students are fully immersed in the science curriculum. The carefully planned sequence of learning for science allows children to EXPLORE, INVESTIGATE, and EVALUATE progressively across the school. Children will consolidate investigative skills through deliberate practice in every year group.
Implementation:
Science is taught through links to themed curriculum learning. It is taught through blocked learning to allow the children to immerse themselves in really ‘being a scientist’. This blocked learning allows children to really understand the sequence of EXPLORING, INVESTIGATING and EVALUATING their work as scientists, allowing time to enjoy the subject area. The key areas of science are covered throughout the school; biology, chemistry, physics, substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge.
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