“ Science is built up of facts as a house is built up of stones but science is no more a collection of facts than a house is a collection of stones.”

Jules Henri Poincare

Science stimulates and excites pupils’ curiosity about the world around them.  Through our work in science pupils come to understand the way science contributes to changes in industry, business and medicine.  As pupils learn the cultural significance of science they begin to question and discuss science based issues which affect their own lives, their communities and the planet.  Finding answers to these questions is the real true basis of scientific enquiry.

In science there are 4 attainment targets :

1.Scientific Enquiry

-         Ideas and evidence in science.

-     Investigative skills.

2. Life Processes and Living Things

-         Life processes

-         Humans and other animals

-         Green plants

-         Variation and classification

-         Living things in their environment

3. Materials and Their properties

-         Grouping materials

-         Changing materials

-         Separating mixtures of materials (KS 2)

4.Physical Processes

-         Electricity

-         Forces in motion

-         Light and Sound

-         Earth and Beyond (KS 2)

Key Stage 1

During Key Stage 1 pupils;

-         Observe, explore and ask questions about living things, materials and phenomena.

-         Work together to collect evidence to answer simple scientific questions.

-         Evaluate evidence to decide whether tests and comparisons are fair.

-         Use reference material to find out more about scientific ideas.

-         Share their ideas by using scientific language, drawings, charts and tables.

Key Stage 2

During Key Stage 2 pupils;

-         Learn about a wider range of living things, materials and phenomena.

-         Begin to make links between ideas and explain these with simple models or theories.

-         Apply their knowledge to everyday things and their own lives.

-         Think about the good and bad affects of scientific and technological developments locally and globally.

-         Carryout more systematic enquiries / investigations.

-     Use a range of reference sources for their work.