Our science curriculum is knowledge rich: knowledge is valued, specified, well sequenced and taught to be remembered. The content of the curriculum has been carefully chosen by experts, and has been sequenced in a meaningful way that enables children to make connections and progress from unit to unit, term to term and year to year. Information is presented in small steps; it is clearly explained and well-modelled. Children have opportunities to discuss, ask and answer questions, explain their learning and work independently. The science curriculum also enables children to build interesting and meaningful connections across other subjects such as English, geography and history. So that all children have the opportunity to fulfil their potential, the curriculum is ambitious yet achievable to all with carefully produced scaffolding and support in place where necessary. 

From EYFS through to year six, a range of key threads are revisited over time, including: Human Body, Plants, Electricity, Materials and Living Things. As pupils progress through the school, they cover all aspects of the National Curriculum as well as extra units to prepare them for science in the wider world. Through these threads, children develop their theoretical and practical science knowledge.

In EYFS, the children explore their local environment and learn about a range of topics through play. Topics they cover include seasons, the human body, weather, fossils, space/our planet, floating and sinking, growth and change in humans and animals and growing plants.

In KS1, the children build on their learning from EYFS and explore new topics, which include materials, magnets, animals and their needs, habitats, the human body, plants, seasons, taking care of our planet, astronomy and electricity.

In KS2, the children again build on previous learning while also exploring new topics, which include forces, magnets, light, electricity, materials, sound, states of matter, meteorology, astronomy, rocks, classification, ecology, plants, human body (inc. reproduction), life cycles and evolution.



On a whole school level, Science has a high profile but we always strive to elevate its profile even more through visits, visitors and Science Week. We have links to Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University, where we arrange visits to and visitors from. During Science Week, we aim to explore other areas of science to expose our children to all of the exciting areas of science that they might not have experienced before and give them ideas of possible careers in the future.