Science Subject Leader Planning Statement
‘Magic is Science we don’t understand yet’ – Arthur C. Clarke
Article 13: Every child must be free to express their thoughts and opinions and to access all kinds of information, as long as it is within the law.
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What makes our Science curriculum exceptional?
1. It is underpinned by aims, values & purpose
E.g. Article 29 UN Convention of Rights of the Child: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment.
Our Guiding Principles are:
To provide an education which develops the whole child.
To provide a broad and balanced curriculum with a strong focus on enrichment opportunities.
To teach children to understand their own rights and to respect the rights of others.
2. It develops the whole person – knowledge, skills, understanding & attitudes.
Knowledge: Develops scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding in every lesson
Skills: Enquiry, thinking critically, active learning, observation, identifying, classifying, gathering, recording, measuring, reporting, presenting, communicating, data finding
Understanding: To understand about the children’s place and the impact they can have on the world around them – good and bad.
Attitudes: conservation, recycling, saving resources.
A Rickmansworth Park we believe Science is Learning for Life.
3. It is broad and balanced.
Scientific knowledge, conceptual understanding, nature, processes and methods of science as well as its uses and implications are taught in every class every year in an environment that is suited to the children’s ability and understanding.
Science always plays an important role in class assemblies and classroom displays.
4. There is clear progression in subject knowledge and skills.
The Science Curriculum develops a progression in Scientific Understanding from R-Y6. Gifted and Talented Science Quizzes inspire the children to work as a team when using their STEM knowledge.
5. It is filled with rich first-hand experiences.
Hands on activities in all lessons, producing useful, relevant and appropriate, qualitative and quantitative outcomes.
6. It is flexible and responsive to individual needs and interests.
Teacher source their lessons from ‘Developing Experts’ or ‘Twinkl’. These resources offer lesson plans, PowerPoints, documentaries and news footage differentiated and challenging for all years.
7. It has an eye on the future and the needs of future citizens.
Children are taught about the recycling of resources and the impact of greenhouse gases on our planet as well as the detrimental effect plastic and fossil fuels are having on the Earth.
Entering the Annual County K’Nex Challenge encourages children to be creative whilst encouraging engineers of the future.
8. It encourages the use of environments and expertise beyond the classroom.
Children use our school environment regularly to collect data and observe wildlife and vegetation from the first term in Reception. We collect litter and grow vegetables.
9. It makes meaningful links between areas of knowledge across the curriculum.
The Science curriculum is often taught with links to other curriculum areas e.g. literacy letters to recycling plants, computing – posters warning of the impact of pollution, maths – data collection and graphs etc.
10. It has a local, national and global dimension.
Our science curriculum is geared so that the children understand about their place and impact on the world around them
Attitudes: conservation, recycling, saving resources.
11. It is supported by high quality Subject Leader CPD.
Rickmansworth Park value working with STEM Ambassadors who are experts in their field. They visit school to talk on areas studied. This enriches our Science curriculum.
12. SMSC is embedded in the curriculum.
Science supports spiritual development by providing many opportunities for children to think and spend time reflecting on the amazing wonders that occur in our natural world.
Social, Moral, Spiritual, Cultural Links – Science
Spiritual
Science supports spiritual development by providing many opportunities for children to think and spend time reflecting on the amazing wonders that occur in our natural world.
Moral
Science supports moral development by showing children that different opinions need to be respected and valued. There are many moral and ethical issues that we cover in science including discussions about environmental and human issues.
Social
Science supports social development by exposing children to the power of collaborative working in the science community which has led to some amazing and life changing breakthroughs in medicine. When undertaking experiments and research children work collaboratively
Cultural
Science supports cultural development by looking at how scientists from a range of cultures have had a significant impact globally. It also helps children to understand how important science is to the economy and culture of the UK.