Science
Intent and Implementation
Intent
Science at Hazelwood Academy aims to ensure that all children are taught and experience a knowledge rich science curriculum, which supports the successful delivery of National Curriculum expectations.
It is our intent to encourage children to be inquisitive about the world, enabling them to develop a range of scientific skills that are built on, in order to develop a deeper level of thinking, in all three areas of science.
Implementation
Science skills are explicitly taught weekly for 90 minutes during Science lessons.
The content of the lessons are driven by the national curriculum.
Specific focus is made on key skills and enquiry opportunities within each unit and attention is drawn to the scientific skills underpinning the exploration of the content.
The school has commissioned the ARK Curriculum+ to support teachers and children with learning in Science.
ARK resources support teacher’s continuing CPD needs and ensure they become experts within the unit areas they teach.
Vocabulary is progressively shared and taught to the children within each unit.
Each classroom has a science working wall, which displays the key vocabulary needed and demonstrate the learning journey within each unit.
Children are taught units which correlate with the 3 key aspects of Science: Physics, Biology and Chemistry
In the early years science is taught through the curriculum area of understanding the world. Pupils experience a range of adult directed and continuous provision opportunities which allow them to explore the natural world around them.
Our Science Curriculum is high quality, well thought out and is planned to demonstrate progression. In addition, we measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:
A reflection on standards achieved against the planned outcomes (Key Objective Sheets linked to National Curriculum objectives);
Tracking of knowledge in pre and post learning quizzes;
Pupil / Teacher discussions about their learning
For SEND learners we:
pre-teaching subject vocabulary to decrease the vocabulary gap.
adapting resources and teaching to provide enhanced opportunities to record and experience learning.
