We are scientists

Children will experience stimulating hands on lessons which excite and inspire them and give them an experience they will never forget. We will allow them to develop their scientific knowledge, skills and understanding through a range of experiments to captivate them and develop their science capital.

We teach the full National Curriculum. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a806ebd40f0b62305b8b1fa/PRIMARY_national_curriculum_-_Science.pdf

We follow CUSP Topics  

CUSP Science

 

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Year 1	Seasonal changes and daily weather      Introduce Plants – (trees)      Animals, including humans	Everyday materials      Revisit 1: Animals, including    humans	Plants      Revisit 2: Plants, Animals including    humans
Year 2	Living things and their habitats      Animals, including humans	Uses of everyday materials      Revisit Living things and their    habitats / materials	Plants      Revisit Living things and their habitats /    Animals, including humans
Year 3	Rocks      Animals, including humans      Revisit Rocks	Forces and magnets      Plants	Plants continued…      Light
Year 4	Living things and their habitats      States of matter	Animals, including humans	Electricity      Sound
Year 5	Properties and changes of materials      Animals, including humans	Forces (Gravity and Galileo)      Earth in space	Living things and their habitats      Forces continued
Year 6	Electricity      Animals including humans    (circulatory system)	Animals including humans    (water transport)      Light	Living things and their habitats      Evolution and inheritance

 

Scientific analysis is developed through IPROF criteria. We call it ‘Thinking Scientifically.’ 

 

• identifying and classifying 

• pattern seeking 

• research 

• observing over time 

• fair and comparative testing . 

 

Curriculum connections: support teachers to build cumulatively and coherently on prior learning. They support relevant, deliberate and precise revisiting across the wider curriculum.  

 

Teaching and learning:

Vocabulary is the golden thread that sits at the heart of the CUSP Curriculum, mapped out from the EYFS to Year 6 within and across subjects. 

 

CUSP Science resources contain a wealth of evidence-led materials to support excellent teaching and long-term learning.  

 

Science in EYFS

In the EYFS, the exploration of science links with the ‘Understanding the World’ part of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Curriculum. Science is introduced indirectly through activities designed to inspire each child to engage in exploration, problem-solving, observation, prediction, critical thinking, decision-making, and discussions about the world around them.

During their initial years at school, our young learners delve into the areas of creatures, people, plants, and objects within their natural environments. They actively observe and manipulate objects and materials, identifying differences and similarities. Utilizing their senses, they might feel dough or listen to sounds in the environment, distinguishing elements like sirens or farm animals. The curriculum encourages them to make observations of animals and plants, providing explanations for occurrences and discussing changes.

Children are prompted to pose questions about the reasons behind events and the workings of things. Engaging activities may involve adjusting the incline of a slope to observe the speed of a vehicle or disassembling a mechanical toy to understand its inner workings. In this process, children are encouraged to predict outcomes, fostering communication, planning, investigation, recording, and the evaluation of their findings. This approach instills a foundation for scientific inquiry and exploration, nurturing curiosity and laying the groundwork for further scientific understanding.