Our Science Vision
Intent
At Rattlesden our intention is that our Science curriculum is ambitious for all learners and driven by strong leadership who have a clear vision of high-quality education. We want to stimulate our children to be inquisitive and have a desire to find out answers to their own questions, creating a real 'buzz' to their learning and being inspired to follow career opportunities linked to science. Encouraging them to develop a genuine interest in the world around them and a passion to find out about it.
Implementation
The children will build resilience through trial and error exploration, where they will not always get the results they expect and things will not always go right. Independently they will begin to link prior scientific knowledge with current learning. Our children will develop a greater, secure depth to their science understanding and appreciate the relevance of science to themselves and the world around them.
Through our curriculum we will support pupils to develop their aspirations for their futures and become life-long learners.
Impact:
Children enjoy and are enthusiastic about science in our school There is a clear progression of children’s work and teacher expectations throughout the year groups. Children’s work shows a range of topics and evidence of the curriculum coverage for all science topics. Children are becoming increasingly independent in science, selecting their own tools and materials, completing pupil lead investigations and choosing their own strategies for recording. Feedback from teachers has impact on our pupils, often with next step questions to push learning on. Standards in science at the end of the key stages are good and issues arising are addressed effectively in school. Teachers’ judgements are moderated internally and our SLT and governors are kept up to date with developments in the way science is run in our school with subject reports, action plans and review meetings.
In addition, we measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:
- Book looks
- Pupil voice
- Regular feedback each lesson
Vocabulary progression...
Skills progression...
PSTT primary science curriculum progression
PLAN progression in vocabulary (nursery to Yr6)
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Science Health and Safety...At Rattlesden we use the health and safety guidance for teaching science from the 'Be Safe, 4th Edition' booklet.
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Summer - year 6 Science Fair
In Cedar Class we were 'Electrical Engineers' and had to test objects and materials which might help a soldier on the front line fixed their broken circuit on their GPS tracking system. After testing, the teams had to report back to them.
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constructing models of the human skeleton out of food.
A great BSW STEM festival at Thurston Community College
Great experiments- extracting iron from breakfast cereal, looking at sand & sugar under a microscope, investigating conductors in a circuit & piercing balloons without popping. Jeremy was runner up in the quiz!
Great experiments- extracting iron from breakfast cereal, looking at sand & sugar under a microscope, investigating conductors in a circuit & piercing balloons without popping. Jeremy was runner up in the quiz!
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July 2022
Year 6 planned and held their own science fayre
for the rest of the school to visit.
for the rest of the school to visit.
Sensory science garden...
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