Subject Hub Leader:

Catherine Evans is a Senior Leader at Sandgate Primary School, with experience working as a class teacher across a range of ages including Year 2 and 6. She has  experience as a Science Specialist Leader and has previously led a STEM Enthuse Partnership, linking local schools together to ensure that Science learning is rich, engaging and designed to fully equip children for the future. 

Catherine is passionate about STEM subjects and believes that they allow children to explore and engage with the ever-changing world: all children should be empowered with the knowledge and skills they may need as potential future engineers, mathematicians and problem-solvers.

 

Science Curriculum Vision:

The aim of the Science curriculum at Sandgate Primary is to progressively build knowledge and curiosity, such that all pupils are supported to know more and do more as they move through the school, on to secondary education and into later life. The curriculum is designed around both substantive and disciplinary concepts to ensure that all pupils successfully learn the discipline of Science, along with the practical, investigative and theoretical knowledge that comprises the subject. The curriculum is supported by rigorous assessment approaches that accord all pupils the opportunity to demonstrate what they know and can do, whilst allowing gaps to be identified and addressed without impacting negatively on learning.

 

Substantive Threads: Science

Each unit within the Science curriculum at Sandgate is designed to progressively develop the following practical and theoretical strands of substantive knowledge:

• The natural world: exploring, categorising and describing, developing scientific concepts
• Living things: myself, plants and animals, and human life
• Energy and forces: light, sound, heat, magnetism and electricity, and forces
• Materials: properties and characteristics of materials, materials and change
• Working scientifically: questioning, observing, predicting, investigating and experimenting, estimating and measuring, analysis, recording and communicating, understanding representations and models  

 

Disciplinary Threads: Science

Each unit within the Science curriculum at Sandgate is designed to progressively develop children’s knowledge of the discipline of Science. Units have been organised around developing this in the following areas:

 

• Methods to answer scientific questions: reflecting the diversity of scientific methods, e.g. identifying, experimentation (fair testing), classification and grouping, pattern seeking, observing over time.
• Apparatus and techniques, including measurement: carrying out specific procedures knowledgably safely and proficiently, with accurate measurement and data recording.
• Analysis, presentation and evaluation of scientific data to draw valid conclusions: presenting and processing scientific data in a variety of ways, including graphs and tables, used alongside substantive theory to draw tentative conclusions.
• Development of scientific knowledge over time: knowing how scientific laws and theories develop over time.

Curriculum Documents: Science

 

An overview of the Science curriculum can be found here

 

 

 

A sample of the school curriculum for Science can be found here.

 

 

 

A sample of the school assessment for Science can be found here