
Key Attributes of our Scientists:
Key attributes of a Scientist include a strong sense of curiosity, a love of asking questions, careful observation skills, the ability to experiment and test ideas, being open to new information and clearly communicating their findings. Essentially, a Scientist is someone who actively seeks to understand the world around them by exploring, testing and learning new things.
As part of our Science curriculum, we study a wide range of significant Scientists including:
Charles Macintosh
Mary Anning
Alexander Bell
Jane Goodall
Charles Darwin
Intent:
At St Bridget’s, our intent is to give every child a broad and balanced Science curriculum which enables pupils to confidently explore and discover what is around them, so that they have a deeper understanding of the increasingly scientific and technological world we live in. In our school, Science is about developing children’s curiosity and ideas which is achieved through providing children with exciting, practical, hands- on experiences allowing them to apply their scientific skills. Our Science curriculum is designed to ensure pupils build upon prior learning, supporting all learners in making rich connections in knowledge, underpinned by Scientific vocabulary and secure language development. Our aims for teaching Science include the following:
· To develop pupils’ enjoyment and interest in science and an appreciation of its contribution to all aspects of everyday life.
· To build on pupils’ curiosity and sense of awe of the natural world.
· To use a planned range of investigations and practical activities to give pupils a greater understanding of the concepts and knowledge of science.
· To introduce pupils to the language and vocabulary of science.
· To develop pupils’ basic practical skills and their ability to make accurate and appropriate measurements.
Implementation:
At St Bridget’s, Science topics are taught within each year group in accordance with the National Curriculum. We also use PLAN Science materials to support the children’s learning. Every year group will build upon the learning from prior year groups therefore developing depth of understanding and progression of skills. To help develop children’s ability to ‘know more and remember more’ there are regular opportunities to review the learning taken place in previous topics as well as previous lessons. The children complete a range of activities throughout the topic as a form of assessment which informs teacher’s planning and ensures misconceptions are addressed. Children explore, question, predict, plan, carry out investigations and observations as well as conclude their findings.
Impact
At St Bridget’s, the quality of our Science curriculum is high and coherently planned to ensure progression within children’s knowledge, use of scientific vocabulary and their application and understanding of scientific skills. We measure the impact through the following methods.
- Regular monitoring of science teaching and learning across the school via learning walks and looking at pupil books.
- Through pupil voice, children will be able to articulate their knowledge and understanding as a scientist, using appropriate vocabulary.
- Through planned assessment tasks, the class teacher will be able to see how well a child has understood their learning.
Curriculum Links
Making science interesting and relevant to children is one of the key features of effective science teaching and learning and developing effective cross curricular links helps children to appreciate the relevance of scientific ideas and skills. Science provides many opportunities for children to develop key skills across the whole curriculum, in particular, English, Maths and Geography.
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