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Millom Infant School
Every child a learner, we all learn together
Science
The National Curriculum states that a high-quality science education provides the foundations for understanding the world. The National Curriculum expects that all pupils should be taught the essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science. A sense of excitement and curiosity about the natural world should be nurtured. The National Curriculum states that children should be encouraged to understand how science can be used to explain what is occurring and predict how things may happen.
Aims:
The national curriculum for science aims to ensure that all pupils:
- Develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding its specific disciplines.
- 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.
Scientific Knowledge and Understanding
The National Curriculum has been divided up into a sequence of programmes of study. It is important that as children move through these programmes of study that they develop a secure understanding of the knowledge and concepts in each one so that they can progress on to the next stage in their learning.
We will aim to ensure that as our pupils complete parts of the programme of study that they can describe key processes and characteristics linked to the programme of study and that they are also familiar with technical vocabulary associated with the programme. We will encourage the children to apply the knowledge and understanding that they develop in Mathematics as part of their Science lessons. They will be encouraged to collect, present and analyse data.
The nature, processes and methods of Science
‘Working scientifically’ specifies the understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science for each year group. Our teachers will ensure that ‘working scientifically’ is incorporated within every learning in unit Science to ensure that our children have a variety of opportunities to answer relevant scientific questions. Throughout their time in our school, we will ensure that our pupils will have the opportunity to develop their skills of scientific enquiry by: observing over time; pattern seeking; identifying, classifying and grouping; comparative and fair testing; and researching using secondary sources. Our pupils will have the opportunity to seek answers to questions through collecting, analysing and presenting data.
Spoken Language
The National Curriculum for Science reflects the importance of spoken language in pupils’ development across the whole curriculum. The quality and variety of language that pupils hear and speak are key factors in developing their scientific vocabulary and articulating scientific concepts clearly and precisely. At Millom Infant School, we will provide the children with opportunities to ensure they can develop the skills to allow them make their thinking clear, both to themselves and others. We will help them to use their skills of discussion to address their misconceptions.
Reception:
Our pupils in Reception will follow the curriculum as set out in Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. We will encourage the children begin making sense of the world and their community by giving them opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment around them.
Key Stage One
The National Curriculum states that the principal focus of science teaching in Key Stage 1 is to enable pupils to experience and observe phenomena, looking more closely at the natural and humanly constructed world around them. As part of our Science teaching, we will encourage the children to be curious and ask questions about what they notice. We will help the children to develop 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. We will model how 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, and we will encourage the children to begin using it in their own learning. We will ensure that the children have lots of of first-hand practical experiences alongside opportunities to use appropriate secondary sources, such as books, photographs and videos.
We will encourage our pupils to read and spell scientific vocabulary at a level consistent with their increasing word-reading and spelling knowledge at Key Stage 1.