Science

Science

Balderstone St Leonard’s Church of England Primary School

Reflective and Innovative Teaching and Learning

Science Curriculum

Overall Intent

Purpose of study

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.

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

Curriculum Map


EYFS	Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants; - Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class; - Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changing states of matter.
KS!	Working Scientifically	asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways observing closely, using simple equipment performing simple tests identifying and classifying using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions gathering and recording data to help in answering questions
	Animals Including Humans				Living Things and their habitats		Plants		Materials
KS1	Name common animals Know the terms herbivore, omnivore, carnivore Know categories of animals Draw basic parts of the human body Know the senses Animals and humans have offspring What to animals and humans need to survive? Diet, exercise, keeping healthy				Dead and alive Habitats Food chains		Name common plants Describe the basic parts of flowers and plants Growing seeds and bulbs What plants need to grow		Everyday materials How can the shapes of materials be changed?
Lower KS2	Working Scientifically	asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests making systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, taking accurate measurements using standard units, using a range of equipment, including thermometers and data loggers gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings.
	Animals Including Humans		Living Things and their habitats	Plants	Rocks	Materials	Forces i	Electricity	Light and Sound	Earth In Space
Lower KS2	Nutrition Skeletons Muscles Changes as humans develop to old age Digestive system Teeth Food chains		Classification Environments	Parts of plants What plants need to grow Plant reproduction	Rocks Fossils Soil	Solids, liquids, gases Heating and cooling Evaporation and condensation	Forces and Magnets	Circuits Components Conductors Insulators	Light and Dark Reflections Shadows How sounds are made. How sounds travel Pitch and vibration.
Upper KS2	Working Scientifically	planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and a degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments
	Animals Including Humans	Living Things and their habitats	Evolution and Inheritance		Materials		Forces		Light and Sound	Earth In Space
Upper KS2	Circulation Diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle	Lifecycle reproduction in plants and animals Classification	Change over time Fossils Reproduction Adaptation		Properties of materials Uses of materials Solids, Liquids, Gases Reversible and irreversible change		Gravity, air resistance, water resistance, friction, mechanisms Voltage of Cells Components Representative diagrams		Light How light travels Reflection	Earth, sun, moon Earth’s rotation

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