Science

Science is a dynamic, interactive subject impinging on virtually all aspects of our lives. Consequently, we aim to make our teaching relevant to everyday situations that the children encounter. We are all enthusiasts for our subject and aim to impart our enthusiasm to the children. Our teaching philosophy is that science is ‘caught rather than taught'! People always respond positively to those with a passion for their subject and children are no exception with their teachers. We are passionate about science.

Our teaching is not limited to our science laboratory. Use is made of our school grounds, not only for biological work but also for chemistry and physics.

The Science Team aims to:

• prepare our children for life in an increasingly scientific and technological world;
• foster concern about, and active care for, our environment;
• help our children acquire a growing understanding of scientific ideas;
• help develop and extend our children’s scientific concept of their world;
• develop our children’s understanding of the international and collaborative nature of science.

We encourage enthusiastic attitudes towards science, by:

• encouraging the development of positive attitudes to science;
• building on our children’s natural curiosity and developing a scientific approach to problems;
• encouraging open-mindedness, self-assessment, perseverance and responsibility;
• building our children’s self-confidence to enable them to work independently;
• developing our children’s social skills to work co-operatively with others;
• providing our children with an enjoyable experience of science, so that they will develop a deep and lasting interest and may be motivated to study science further.

We develop skills by:

• giving our children an understanding of scientific processes;
• helping our children to acquire practical scientific skills; 
• developing the skills of investigation - including observing, measuring, predicting, hypothesising, experimenting, communicating, interpreting, explaining and evaluating;
• developing the use of scientific language, recording and techniques;
• developing the use of ICT in investigating and recording;

.....thus enabling our children to become effective communicators of scientific ideas, facts and data.