INTENT
South Tawton Primary School follows the national curriculum for Science and the Early Years Guidance for Understanding the World which aims to ensure that all children:
- develop scientific knowledge and understanding through the disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics;
- are able to answer scientific questions relating to the world around them by using different types of science enquiry;
- are aware of how science is used in our everyday lives - home and work - and the need for science, today and in the future;
- explore and investigate the World around them, People and Communities and Technology in their Early Years.
AIMS
- Teachers create a positive attitude to learning science with high expectations for all children. We have a progressive approach to the teaching and learning. Science teaching involves:
- identifying a clear intent for all science lessons in particular all practical tasks;
- asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways;
- undertaking practical work in realistic environments to answer questions by observing, testing and classifying;
- gathering and recording data to help answer questions; and
- linking scientific learning across other curricular area.
Autumn |
Spring |
Summer |
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Year 1 |
Human Body & Senses Seasonal Changes |
Everyday Materials Plants & Animals |
Everyday Materials Animals including Humans |
Year 2 |
Animals including Humans Animals including Human |
Uses of Everyday Materials Uses of Everyday Materials |
Living Things Plants |
Year 3 |
Rocks Light |
Forces Magnets |
Plants Animals including Humans |
Year 4 |
Electricity Sound |
States of Matter Living Things and their Habitats |
Animals including Humans Living Things and their Habitats |
Year 5 |
Earth & Space Forces |
Animals including Humans Living Things and their Habitats |
Properties of Materials Changes of Materials |
Year 6 |
Light Living Things and their Habitats |
Electricity Electricity |
Animals including Humans Evolution & Inheritance |
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