Science

 INTENT

The intent of Pensby Primary’s Science curriculum is to ensure that all children are taught age-appropriate science subject knowledge as laid out by the National Curriculum and supported in detail using PLAN documentation. 

It is our intent to encourage children to be inquisitive and ambitious when learning about the world, nurturing their innate curiosity and enabling them to develop a range of scientific skills that are useful across the whole curriculum. Through progression models for vocabulary, scientific enquiry and key knowledge, we engage our children in their prior learning and select activities that allow the children to further develop their foundational knowledge of scientific concepts.  

IMPLEMENTATION

At Pensby Primary we follow the National Curriculum for Science using the PLAN scheme of work. The knowledge progression documents within PLAN indicate where content has been previously taught and allows teachers to use prior learning to develop and enhance existing knowledge. Teachers use the progression documents for working scientifically, key knowledge and vocabulary and activities are carefully selected to best support the children to become secure in the knowledge and skills of each unit of work.

We make science lessons interactive and engaging through carefully selected resources and activities. Skills are taught, practised and progressed through each of the progression maps as detailed in the PLAN scheme. The organisation of age-appropriate content and technical vocabulary enables pupils to discuss, investigate and evaluate all areas of science and long-term plans have been devised to enable children to link scientific learning with other curriculum areas.

During the Spring Term, we hold a science week to engage the children in a celebration of science and to spark enthusiasm for scientific enquiry and to enable our children to develop strategies for questioning and thinking when working scientifically.

IMPACT

Pupil voice shows that children enjoy their science lessons and demonstrate a keen enthusiasm about the world around them. Our children progress to secondary school with the enthusiasm to want to question the world around them having developed the skills and vocabulary that enable them to work scientifically at a deeper level.

We provide children with the foundations and knowledge for understanding the world, aiming to ignite their interest in a range of science-based subjects, promoting STEM subjects so that children learn about the possibilities for future careers in science.