Statement of Intent
We believe in developing children’s natural curiosity and excitement about scientific phenomena, how this has changed our lives and will continue to shape the future. We aim to promote scientific reasoning, questioning, wonder and the ability to find meaning in what is observed.
We strive to:
- Teach children to think as scientists.
- Teach children to relate their experiences of science to life in the real world.
- Teach children to ask scientific questions and begin to appreciate the way science will affect their future on a personal, national, and global level.
- Allow children to discover concepts revealed through observing scientific phenomena and conducting experimental investigations for themselves.
- Allow children to acquire the necessary knowledge, but also understand its value, enjoying the experience of working scientifically, and sustaining their interest in learning it.
Aims
The national curriculum for science aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific
disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics
- develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through
different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about
the world around them
- are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and
implications of science, today and for the future.
