Overview

Our aim is to develop our students’ scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics. We also intend to develop our students’ understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help children answer scientific questions about the world around them. Furthermore, we aim to equip our pupils with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future.

The Primary Knowledge Curriculum provides our students with a highly organized curriculum that embeds disciplinary knowledge within the substantive content of biology, chemistry and physics. The substantive knowledge is sequenced so that students build their knowledge of important concepts such as photosynthesis, magnetism and substance throughout their time at school whilst the disciplinary knowledge is sequenced to take account of the best substantive contexts in which to teach it and develops student’s knowledge of working scientifically.