"The important thing

is to never stop questioning."

Albert Einstein

Intent

At Manor Primary school, our aim is to give all children a strong understanding of the world around them whilst acquiring specific skills and knowledge to help them to think scientifically and develop an understanding of the uses and implications of Science, today and for the future.

Scientific enquiry skills are embedded in each topic the children study and these topics are revisited and developed throughout their time at school. This allows children to build upon their prior knowledge and increases their enthusiasm for the topics.

We encourage our children to be inquisitive throughout their time at the school and beyond. The Science curriculum fosters a healthy curiosity about our universe and promotes respect for the living and non-living. We believe science encompasses the acquisition of knowledge, concepts, skills and positive attitudes. Throughout the programmes of study, the children will acquire and develop the key knowledge that has been identified within each unit and across each year group, as well as the application of scientific skills. 

Implementation

We ensure that all children are provided with rich learning experiences that aim to:

• Prepare our children for life in an increasingly scientific and technological world today and in the future.
• Help our children acquire a growing understanding of the nature, processes and methods of scientific ideas.
• Help develop and extend our children’s scientific concept of their world.
• Build on our children’s natural curiosity and developing a scientific approach to problems.
• Use all scientific enquiry types to develop a clear understanding of the world around them.
• Encouraging open-mindedness, self-assessment, perseverance and developing the skills of 3 investigation – including: observing, measuring, predicting, hypothesising, experimenting, communicating, interpreting, explaining and evaluating.
• Develop the use of scientific language, recording and techniques.
• Develop the use of computing in investigating and recording.
• Make links between science and other subjects.

What you will see in a Manor Primary School Science Lesson

• Engaging and inspiring lessons and investigations that promote creativity and curiosity. 
• High quality instruction and questioning with teachers providing carefully planned sequenced and modelled lessons that build on children’s scientific knowledge and working scientifically skills.
• Children working practically to apply their knowledge or discovery new learning.
• The full range of Scientific Enquiry being taught throughout the unit of work.
• Achievement and Inclusion for all: All activities are planned, scaffolded and adapted to ensure every child at Manor can achieve highly in Science. This may include adapted resources, adult support and awareness of physical/sensory needs.
• Retrieval of previous learning and explicit links through concepts that connect new learning with what the children know. Each lesson will start with a recap of knowledge from the previous week, unit or year.
• High quality talk giving opportunities for children to discuss their scientific thinking and to learn how to challenge and disagree respectfully giving thoughtful reasons for their views.
• An emphasis on correct and ambitious vocabulary. 
• High quality verbal feedback during lessons.

Impact

We will measure impact of this through:

• Monitoring of the curriculum
• Book/planning scrutinies
• Learning walks
• End of unit assessments
• End of year assessments