Science

Our intent – What we want to deliver

At St. Mary’s CE Primary school and Nursery, we understand that a good Science education provides the foundations for children to understand the world around them.

We aim to give each child science experiences that are relevant and meaningful. We hope that these experiences encourage the children to ask and answer questions that help them to make connections within the world around them.

Our implementation – How we are going to deliver the science curriculum

We provide a learning environment for science that is stimulating, enjoyable and challenging to develop the children’s skills to work scientifically, research and observe. The science units taught are based on the areas of biology, chemistry and physics and each lesson fits within a wider sequence, providing the opportunity for the children to learn and use specialist vocabulary, build on prior knowledge and apply their learning to new contexts.

The impact

Pupils will enjoy their Science experiences and will be engaged and motivated to learn new skills and vocabulary within Science lessons. They will be prepared and ready for their next stage in their learning journey, allowing their science knowledge and skills to be built upon and develop as they move through the school and eventually into KS3.

Why Science?

To encourage and develop natural curiosity and questioning
To make sense of why and how things work around them today and in the future
To develop the children’s Science cultural capital
To learn and use key vocabulary that can be practice and applied effectively
To acquire, apply and reason with Science knowledge
To encourage ambition and empowerment for future goals and careers.

Science curriculum at St Mary’s CE Primary School

Please see our whole school overview to find out the science topics we cover across the school – St Mary’s Science LTP Cycle A and B

Progression Documents

Our progression documents include the learning objectives and success criteria, key vocabulary, knowledge organisers, key learning questions and threshold concepts:

Year-1-Animals-including-humans Year-1-Everyday-Materials

Year-2-Plants Year-2-Living-things-and-their-habitat

Year-3-Forces-and-magnets

Year-4-Digestion Year-4-Electricity

Year-5-Earth-and-space Year-5-Living-things-and-their-habitats-life-cycles

Year-6-Electricity Year-6-Evolution-and-inheritance

National Curriculum Working Scientifically Matrices

Working scientifically matrix – Y1+Y2

PLAN Working scientifically matrix – Y3+Y4

PLAN Working scientifically matrix – Y5+Y6

Scientific Enquiry Progression Map

Progression-Map-Scientific-Enquiry