At Kingsbury Primary School, we believe that a high-quality science education provides children with the foundations for understanding and exploring the world and natural phenomena that occur around them. We aim to encourage a genuine passion for scientific knowledge and enquiry while harnessing children’s natural excitement and curiosity. Children are exposed to a wide variety of topics that support their natural curiosity for learning. We

We want our pupils to be empowered to think creatively, rationally and critically and to be able to hypothesise, test, present and reflect on scientific ideas in light of their own findings or those gained from others.

We aim to nurture a love for the natural world and promote respect for everything in it, encompassing both the living and non-living elements. We aim to inspire and excite children for future possibilities in the scientific world; we encourage them to be active learners who take ownership of their own learning.

“Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world”

At Kingsbury Primary School, we aim to develop curiosity through questioning, investigating and drawing conclusions, whilst understanding the pivotal role science has in shaping an ever-changing world. We use Plymouth Science with to help our children learn through varied systematic investigations, leading to them being equipped for life to ask and answer scientific questions about the world around them. The development of key scientific knowledge and introduction of new vocabulary is an integral part of our science lessons. The progression of knowledge and skills for working scientifically are developed through the year groups and scientific enquiry skills are of key importance within lessons. As children progress through the school, they develop greater independence in planning and carrying out fair and comparative tests to answer a range of scientific questions. Children are constantly challenged to move their ‘working scientifically’ skills forward and to think like scientists.

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.

- Encouraging open-mindedness, self-assessment, perseverance and developing the skills of 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.

Scientific knowledge and enquiry skills are developed with increasing depth and challenge as children move through the year groups. They complete investigations and hands-on activities while gaining the scientific knowledge for each area covered.