Science

Intent

Our intention at Church Lane Primary School and Nursery is to develop children’s sense of awe and wonder in the world around them. Encouraging them to fully engage in the world and question and investigate what they see. We want our curriculum to be ambitious and we have designed it to give all our children the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life past primary; giving them the opportunity to aim for a variety of careers.

We will ensure that our intention is met through…

• Providing a broad and robust curriculum for our children to work through which challenges them and stimulates their interest in Science
• Delivering engaging Science lessons that provide the children with regular opportunities to complete practical Science work
• Ensuring our children are aware of how Science applies to their everyday life through texts and stories.
• Giving our children the opportunity to ask their own scientific questions and have an input in to the planning of their experiments.
• Ensuring our children have access to our outdoor learning environment, visits from specialists and local facilities to enhance the delivery of our curriculum and engage our children’s interest.
• High quality and level vocabulary will be introduced in each lesson alongside knowledge which will be built upon through the children’s time in school.

Our curriculum

At Church Lane, we have designed our curriculum in a progressive way from Nursery through to Year 6. Based on the Government’s curriculum it has been adapted and takes in to account the aims and schemes of work set out within that document alongside the needs of our own children to ensure that we deliver a tailored curriculum that supports our children to achieve the best they can.

Our curriculum is laid out in the following way:

1. Science knowledge is split in to five main areas: Our world, Life around us, Our bodies, Materials and Forces. This knowledge is accompanied by working scientifically procedural knowledge and questions that the children look at within each main area of science. These main areas are set out progressively (From Nursery to Year 6) to ensure that the children’s knowledge is chronological and builds on what they already know (This information is in the Progression document).

2. Each year group has a set area of science per half term – this is shared with the children in a child friendly question, which encourages our children to engage with being scientists whilst introducing them to high quality vocabulary. (This information is in the Yearly map)

3. Each question is then explored by the children through several lessons, which assist the children in gaining and building the knowledge and experience they need to achieve. (The in depth knowledge we will be teaching is contained in unit plans  - these further breakdowns include the knowledge taught in the unit and working scientifically questions to ensure that our children gain both knowledge and experience of being scientists.)

This curriculum is underpinned by the Golden Thread of the school

For more information on the science curriculum click here.