Science
Leadership of Science at Grove Primary School.
Accountable & Responsible: Mr Kyle Bessey
Curriculum Intent
Curriculum Implementation
Science is taught weekly and blocked into timetabled slots following a long term plan. The different topics of Science are spread across the year throughout year groups. Medium terms plans are used to home in on skills and knowledge and break these down into manageable chunks for our pupils. Teachers check on what children already know using retrieval techniques through all lessons so that children are able to make links to prior learning. Each Science lesson has a dual objective - a knowledge skill and a science enquiry skill allowing children to make links between what they know and investigating why, what and how?
Curriculum Impact
The successful approach to the teaching of science at Grove Primary School will result in a fun, engaging, high quality Science education that provides children with the foundations for understanding the world that they can take with them once they complete their primary education.
Assessment is teacher based and formed using informal strategies such as verbal and written outcomes, retrieval tasks, quizzes and reflection tasks both half termly and in the moment AFL. The ongoing assessment of Science, allows for misconceptions and gaps to be addressed more immediately rather than building on insecure scientific foundations.
Children at Grove Primary School will:
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lead their own paths of investigating
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make links between their learning and real life context.
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question ideas and reflect on knowledge.
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understand scientific concepts and use the appropriate scientific vocabulary around this.
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use and explain the different scientific enquiry skills (fair and comparative tests, pattern seek , identify and classify, research and observe over time)
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Work collaboratively and practically to investigate and experiment.
Science Long Term PlanScience Example Medium Term PlanScience Assessment