Science Curriculum

Intent, Implementation, and Impact

Science Curriculum Statement

Our curriculum is joined and sequenced properly to ensure that our children avoid gaps in their learning. A globally relevant curriculum helps to facilitate children with a strong world view.

Intent
At St. John’s RC Primary School, we want our children to be enthused scientists! We want pupils at St. John’s to recognise and understand the importance of science in our daily lives through a practical, hands-on approach involving experiments and investigations, giving our children opportunities to be curious and test out their theories.

We aspire for our children:

To develop their scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding
To be equipped with the scientific knowledge and skills required to understand the uses and implications of Science today and for the future
To develop a sense of excitement and curiosity about the world around them
To build upon the learning and skill development of the previous years

Implementation
At St. John’s we follow Pearson Primary Science, an aspirational, fully joined and coherent programme that supports and nurtures our curious pupils. The programme we follow is designed to build the knowledge and skills needed to spark imagination, fuel curiosity, and nurture confident young scientists. Science lessons are taught weekly throughout Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Children in Early Years are exposed to ‘Understanding the World’ through exploring the natural world.

The units of learning incorporate the working scientifically and knowledge objectives for each year group to explore.

	Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
Year 1	Parts of Animals	Changing Seasons	Plants	Comparing Materials	Types of Animals	Identifying Materials
Year 2	Uses of Materials	Living Things	Growing Plants	Changing Shape	Habitats	Feeding and Exercise
Year 3	Movement and Feeding	Light and Shadows	What Plants Need	Rocks and Soils	Parts of Plants	Magnets and Forces
Year 4	Electricity	Dangers to Living Things	Human Nutrition	Sound	Grouping Living Things	Changes of State
Year 5	Life Cycles	Earth and Space	Separating Mixtures	Types of Change	Materials	Forces
Year 6	Light and Sight	Our Bodies	Classifying Living Things	Changing Circuits	Evolution and Inheritance	Review and Celebration

Intended Impact
At St. John’s, we celebrate success through our science curriculum when children will:

Have developed skills through science as a process of enquiry
Have developed enthusiasm for scientific learning and discovery
Have developed their understanding of nature and the world around them
Be equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the science for today and for the future