Britannia
Primary School and Nursery
Britannia
Primary School and Nursery
Britannia
Primary School and Nursery
Our science curriculum follows a programme of study that revolves around progression of scientific skills and knowledge across the key stages, through our Curriculum Concepts.
Early Years Foundation Stage
We teach Science in Nursery and Reception classes as an integral part of the topic work covered during the year. The Early Years Foundation Stage is planned in accordance with the “Understanding of the World” area of learning. The children are assessed through observation and planned activities, which inform the children’s profiles for the end of Reception.
Science in Key Stage 1
The principal focus of science teaching in Key Stage 1 is to enable our pupils to experience and observe phenomena, looking more closely at the natural and humanly constructed world around them. They are encouraged to be curious and ask questions about what they notice. Our children are supported in developing their understanding of scientific ideas by using different types of scientific enquiry to answer their own questions, including observing changes over a period of time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out simple comparative tests, and finding things out using secondary sources of information. They begin to use simple scientific language to talk about what they have found out and communicate their ideas to a range of audiences in a variety of ways.
Science in Lower Key Stage 2
The principal focus of science teaching in Lower Key Stage 2 is to enable our pupils to broaden their scientific view of the world around them. They do this through exploring, talking about, testing and developing ideas about everyday phenomena and the relationships between living things and familiar environments, and by beginning to develop their ideas about functions, relationships and interactions. Our children ask their own questions about what they observe and make some decisions about which types of scientific enquiry are likely to be the best ways of answering them, including observing changes over time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out simple comparative and fair tests and finding things out using secondary sources of information. They draw simple conclusions and use some scientific language, first, to talk about and, later, to write about what they have found out.
Science in Upper Key Stage 2
The principal focus of science teaching in Upper Key Stage 2 is to enable our pupils to develop a deeper understanding of a wide range of scientific ideas. They do this through exploring and talking about their ideas; asking their own questions about scientific phenomena; and analysing functions, relationships and interactions more systematically. At Upper Key Stage 2, our children encounter more abstract ideas and begin to recognise how these ideas help them to understand and predict how the world operates. They also begin to recognise that scientific ideas change and develop over time. They select the most appropriate ways to answer science questions using different types of scientific enquiry, including observing changes over different periods of time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out comparative and fair tests and finding things out using a wide range of secondary sources of information. Pupils draw conclusions based on their data and observations, use evidence to justify their ideas, and use their scientific knowledge and understanding to explain their findings.
We have been fantastic scientists at Britannia and would like to share our knowledge with you. Please look at our class displays and ask us questions about what we have been learning.
You will be amazed by our science knowledge!
