Science

Through our science curriculum we aim to give children the experience of a wide range of practical work as well as developing scientific skills and attitudes. Science helps children to understand more about the world around them and encourages them to question aspects that they don’t understand. Children are given an awareness of the role and importance of science in everyday life together with a consideration of the part that science has played in the development of everyday items. Our children are also given the opportunity to consider ways in which living things and the environment need protection.

We aim to develop our pupils’ scientific skills through first-hand experiences. Pupils are encouraged to solve problems by making close observations, planning, predicting, fair testing and recording their findings in a systematic way. We also hope to foster responsible attitudes towards the environment and all living things. We follow schemes of work for science provided by QCA. We have recently invested in equipment such as digital microscopes and Dataloggers to further enhance our science curriculum through the use of ICT.