Science Intent and Impact
At Shoreditch Park Primary, we provide an inclusive science curriculum that encourages our children to understand, explore and question the natural and humanly constructed world around them.
In the EYFS, science is a key part of the specific area ‘Understanding of the World’ and provides important contexts for learning. It is also integral to the development of the unique child and provides effective learning opportunities for ‘creating and thinking critically’ and ‘active learning’. Alongside specific scientific knowledge and vocabulary, children develop the concept of ‘working scientifically’ appropriate to their developmental stage.
In Key Stage 1 and 2, our approach to science teaching enables children to become more independent and autonomous, systematic, precise and evaluative, and to increasingly use their scientific knowledge in their explanations. We offer a thorough coverage of every topic within the National Curriculum, with a focus on enquiry, varied investigation, questioning and subsequent explanation of scientific phenomena through rational discussion.
We use the Kapow Science programme to structure science lessons. This programme is designed to help teachers to deliver high quality and engaging lessons. The scheme has a strong focus on developing knowledge alongside scientific skills across biology, chemistry and physics. It also follows a spiral curriculum which means knowledge is revisited and built upon year after year and helps children to develop their critical thinking skills as well as their scientific literacy by using a wide-ranging and specialist vocabulary.
At Shoreditch Park we use three key strands which guide all science lessons:
- Scientific knowledge and understanding of:
- biology: living organisms and vital processes;
- chemistry: matter and its properties;
- physics: how the world we live in ‘works’.
- Working scientifically: processes and methods of science to answer questions about the world around us.
- Science in action: uses and implications of science in the past, present and for the future.
The impact of this curriculum design will lead to outstanding progress over time, across key stages, relative to a child’s individual starting point and their progression of skills. We hope that all pupils leave Shoreditch Park as enthusiastic scientists. All children will understand that science has changed our lives and that it is vital to the world’s future prosperity.
Curriculum
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