Sithney Community Primary School

Curriculum

Science

Science Implementation

Science units are linked to the class topic where appropriate to ensure the learning is meaningful and relevant whilst the rolling programme ensures full coverage across the curriculum. Science is taught to ensure scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding of all primary aspects of biology, chemistry and physics. This includes accurate understanding and use of subject specific vocabulary in both written work and discussion in class. This key vocabulary is reflected on learning walls and displays. Each unit of work aims to have at least one link with a key feature of scientific enquiry and may include observing, identifying, classifying, comparing, researching and fair testing. Fair testing is presented as 5 areas: question, prediction, method (including equipment), results and conclusion. Pupils progress from identifying variables (what to change, what to keep the same and what to measure) to designing their own tests. Specific maths skills are used to collect, present and analyse data from fair testing. Where relevant links are made with uses and implications of science today.

Why must we brush our teeth properly.

Learnign about healthy foods.

Keeping healthy.

Reception pupils exploring shadows

How strong is an egg? Looking at variables.

Testing the strength of an egg as part of our work on Evolution.

As part of our outdoor learning, we explored reversible and irreversible change: making fires and roasting marshmallows.

Using our homemade sieves to separate materials.

exploring soils in Y3 and Y4.

Y3/4 making fossils to support their science learning.

Making wormeries.

Planning an investigation.

Which paper is the most absorbent?

Weaving to learn about materials.

Weaving to learn about material.

The Seasons

Testing out the periscopes we made when learning about light.

Learning about shadows.

Do shadows get smaller or larger as the object gets closer to the light source?

How our shadows move throughout the day.

Learning about day and night.

Learning about how the Earth orbits the sun, and the moon orbits the Earth.

Learning about the planets at a Nexus Academy workshop.

Using salt dough to compare the size of the planets.

Comparing the planets using salt dough. Displaying them in order, including an asteroid belt.

Which materials are the most suitable for keeping the pig dry?

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Core Concepts.pdf

Biology Chemistry and Physics strands with concepts.pdf

Y1.2 Animals including humans - classification Knowledge Organiser

Investigating the absorbency of paper.

Separating materials - What we found out usin gour home-made sieves.