Science
Our Intent
Science is about understanding the world around them and how everything works. As well as learning important Scientific vocabulary, we want the children to have plenty of opportunities to explore at first hand.
Our aims are for our children:
- 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 and carefully in order to collect accurate results
- to be offered lots of opportunities for discussion: making predictions, noticing things, making observations, talking about the results and what they have discovered
- 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