Science

Our Intent

Science is about understanding the world around them and how everything works. As well as learning important Scientific concepts, theories and vocabulary, we want the children to have plenty of opportunities to work scientifically.

Our aims are for our children:

• to know and understand the life processes of living things
• to know and understand the physical processes of materials, electricity, light, sound and forces
• to know about the nature of the solar system, including Earth
• to ask scientific questions
• to be guided in how to plan experiments and investigations (learning about fair testing)

• to be encouraged to work collaboratively with others - sharing the tasks and the equipment

• to learn how to use equipment correctly in order to measure accurately to collect accurate results

• to be offered lots of opportunities for discussion: making predictions, noticing patterns, making observations, talking about the results and what they have discovered
• value our environment and learn how we can use our scientific knowledge to find ways to look after our planet

• to be shown how experiments can be recorded on paper for others to learn from

Our Science topics

Each year group has 6 areas of learning for Science and are as follows:

Year 3:

Rocks and Soils

Bones and muscles

Light and shadows

Magnets

Trees and plants

Healthy Eating

Year 4:

Sound

Electricity

Teeth

Digestion

Solids, liquids & gases

Food chains

Year 5:

Reversible changes

Irreversible changes

Dissolving

The solar system

Forces

Reproduction

Year 6:

Light

Electrical circuits

Blood and circulation

Adaptation

Classifying living things

Evolution