Science

At St Paul’s CofE Primary School, Kingston Hill our teachers deliver a motivating and engaging science curriculum that fosters a healthy curiosity in children about the universe and promotes respect and understanding of their world. St Paul’s, we promote the message that everyone can be and is a scientist and have a curriculum that inspires children to be inquisitive and acquire the skills to be a scientist.

How is Science taught at St Paul’s?

Science in Reception is covered in the ‘Understanding the World’ area of the EYFS Curriculum. It is introduced indirectly through activities that encourage children to explore, problem solve, observe, predict, think, make decisions and talk about the world around them. Science in Reception also helps children with skills in the other areas, such as, Physical Development and Expressive arts and Design. During their first year at school your child will explore creatures, people, plants and objects in their natural environments.

Key Stage 1 and 2 have dedicated weekly science lessons are taught. Children follow a carefully planned journey in science through their time at St Paul’s ensuring that both coverage of knowledge and skills is buildable over.

End Points

We teach our curriculum to inline with the National Curriculum and with our key ‘End Point’ in mind.

By the end of Key Stage 1 children should:

- Be curious and ask questions about what the notice.
- Develop their understanding of scientific ideas and begin to use different types of scientific enquiry to find out answers to their own questions.

By the end of Key Stage 2 children should:

have a growing curiosity as to how science is all around us and have the scientific enquiry skills to find out more about things that interest them.
observe changes over time, notice changes, group and classify thing, carry out comparative fair tests and use secondary sources to answer their own scientific questions and those posed by others.
use a range of scientific equipment in a correct and safe way.
know that anyone can be a scientist and know a range of different scientists from different genders, races and walks of life.

Our science curriculum provides a balanced focus on both knowledge and enquiry skills, which are delivered to developed our learner’s independence as well as encouraging the ethos of learning through high quality questions. We use the acronym IPROF to help us remember these scientific enquiry skills.

I Identifying and classifying

P Pattern seeking

R researching

O observing over time

F fair testing, and

a range of science opportunities are available at St Paul’s to enhance the teaching and learning of science, such as:

- Trips to Richmond Park
- Year 5 trip to the Science Museum
- Year 2 trip to Alice Holt Forest
- Class set of microscopes on loan from the Royal Microscopical Society
- Science curriculum evenings, such as Pizza and Puzzles
- STEM clubs

Overview of Science Topics

Topics overview - science.pdf

Knowledge Organisers - Autumn 1

Below are knowledge organisers that are used in class to support your child's learning of science. These are specifically made by the teacher to reflect the learning in the classroom. Use these to help your child with science at home and understanding what they will be learning in school.

Knowledge Organisers - Autumn 2

Year 6 Evolution and inheritance

Year 6 Electricity

Events

Pizza and Puzzles evening

Click for Pizza and Puzzles Evening

British Science Poster competition

Click for the British Science Competition 2023

British Science Week

This year for British Science Week, we explored different connections in our science lessons. In year 6, we focused on Finger Prints and how these are connected to each other and other things in nature.

Royal Microscopical Society

We have been lucky enough to secure a class set of microscopes on loan from the Royal Microscopical Society. Watch this space to see what we find out!