Science

The science curriculum at Christ the King Catholic Primary School follows the content of the  National Curriculum. Our overviews and progression documents can be found below.

The school curriculum aims to show meaningful progression within each unit of work, as well as across year groups and key stages. We believe that revisiting concepts regularly to consolidate and extend the pupils’ understanding is vital. We also believe that investigative science should be at the heart of science lessons in our school.

At CTK our intention is to teach science through concepts and big questions to develop in all young people a lifelong curiosity and interest in the sciences. When planning for the science curriculum, we intend for children to have the opportunity, wherever possible, to learn through varied systematic investigations, leading to them being equipped for life to ask and answer scientific questions about the world around them.  As children progress through the year groups, they build on their skills in working scientifically, as well as on their scientific knowledge, as they develop greater independence in planning and carrying out fair and comparative tests to answer a range of scientific questions. 

Science scheme of work ensures that children have a varied, progressive and well-mapped-out science curriculum that provides the opportunity for progression across the full breadth of the science national curriculum for EYFS, KS1 and KS2.

For individual lesson plans, teachers focus on a scientist and big question to encourage indiviual ideas and enable children to find their own evidence to answer questions or raise further scientific questions. We believe that concept questions make science more relatable to everyday situations and help with learning substantive knowledge. As well as progression in knowledge, our curriculum provides planned opportunities to develop disciplinary skills as students plan, observe, take recordings, hypothesise, find patterns, research and draw conclusions. 

We also have a Mad Science after school club and support the curriculum with trips to science museums, farms and investigate our local area. Each year we celebrate British Science week.

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