Mr L Fowler (Science Lead)
A high-quality science education provides the foundations for understanding the world through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics. Science has changed our lives and is vital to the world’s future prosperity, and all pupils should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science. Through building up a body of key foundational knowledge and concepts, pupils should be encouraged to recognise the power of rational explanation and develop a sense of excitement and curiosity about natural phenomena. They should be encouraged to understand how science can be used to explain what is occurring, predict how things will behave, and analyse causes.
National Curriculum
At Eslington, we aim to build on pupils’ natural curiosity and understanding of the world to develop scientific knowledge, vocabulary and skills through practical investigations, individually and in groups. Pupils are encouraged to make links between what they observe in the world around them and scientific processes. We aim to develop their curiosity through enquiry and exploration understanding of the key scientific areas:
- Life processes and living things
- Materials and their properties
- Physical processes.
At Eslington, our science curriculum supports our 4Rs and provides opportunities to also develop socially and emotionally. We encourage children to take responsibility for the learning to work scientifically to devise their own experiments and fair tests, to predict outcomes of investigations, and to evaluate and compare their findings, reflecting of their learning journey and building their resilience. There are also opportunities for critical thinking, questioning and reasoning. Skills acquired in other key areas of the curriculum – English, maths and ICT are regularly applied and practised within science lessons, through writing up, recording and presenting results.
At Eslington we have spotlight days where we give pupils the opportunity to make cross curricular links providing them with more opportunity work scientifically.