St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Together we grow in God's love, learning to be the best we can be.
Science
The curriculum focuses on four areas of study:
- Scientific Enquiry
- Life processes and living things
- Materials and their properties
- Physical processes
Children are offered a planned, progressive range of scientific experiences, beginning with things familiar to them in everyday life.
Through teaching science we aim to:
- Build on our children’s natural curiosity;
- Know and understand the properties of materials, electricity, light, sound and natural forces.
- Know and understand the physical processes which can change the properties of materials, electricity, light, sound and natural forces.
- Know and understand the life processes of living things;
- Stimulate them to investigate and question;
- Develop scientific skills which include:
- observing, exploring and ordering;
- posing questions and devising experiments to answer these questions;
- use equipment, including computers, correctly to test out theories, record findings and analysis data
- Evaluate evidence and present their conclusions clearly and accurately.
- Interpreting findings critically
- Communicating findings.