North Hinksey CEPrimary School
Science
At North Hinksey we believe that Science should be treated as an enquiry-based subject where children experience an immersive practical science curriculum while developing their natural curiosity for how the world works. Science is discretely taught in blocks and revisited through interleaving across other curriculum subjects.
Our curriculum is designed to enable children to explore and discover from first hand experiences whilst securing and extending scientific knowledge and vocabulary. The children revisit the following threshold concepts as part of our spiral curriculum:
Work Scientifically
- Work scientifically
This concept involves learning the methodologies of the discipline of science.
Chemistry
- Investigate materials
This concept involves becoming familiar with a range of materials, their properties, uses and how they may be altered or changed.
Biology
- Understand plants
This concept involves becoming familiar with different types of plants, their structure and reproduction.
- Understand animals and humans
This concept involves becoming familiar with different types of animals, humans and the life processes they share.
- Investigate living things
This concept involves becoming familiar with a wider range of living things, including insects and understanding life processes.
- Understand evolution and inheritance
Physics
- Understand movement, forces and magnets
This concept involves understanding what causes motion.
- Understand the Earth’s movement in space
This concept involves understanding what causes seasonal changes, day and night.
- Investigate light and seeing
This concept involves understanding how light and reflection affect sight.
- Investigate sound and hearing
This concept involves understanding how sound is produced.
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