Science
Ore Village Primary Academy has been awarded the Primary Science Quality Mark.
The Primary Science Quality Mark is a one-year school improvement programme for primary science, which provides professional development for new and experienced subject leaders each year. PSQM enables confident, knowledgeable, reflective leadership which results in an improvement in the way in which science is planned and taught across the whole school.
At OVPA, through a challenging, exciting, investigative, engaging and practical science curriculum we believe our pupils should be prepared for the future and have an understanding of the world around them. Their sense of curiosity increases their knowledge through observation, exploring and self-discovery through discussions and questioning of concepts.
principles statement.docx.pdfAt Ore Village we follow the National Curriculum for Science.
Key Stage 1
Working Scientifically in KS1 our young scientists learn to ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways. They learn to observe closely using simple equipment to perform simple tests: identify and classify using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions; gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.
Through the curriculum KS1 learn about plants; animals, including humans; everyday materials and their uses; seasonal changes; living things and their habitats.
Key Stage 2
In Key stage 2, our young scientists work scientifically by asking relevant questions and progressing through to be able to set up different types of enquiry to help answer those questions.; they can take accurate measurements; record their data and present it in an appropriate manner.
Through the KS2 curriculum the children learn about plants; animals, including humans; living things and their habitats; evolution and inheritance; states of matter; properties and changes of materials; light; sound; forces; magnets; electricity and earth and space.