Science
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The Primary Science Quality Mark is led by the University of Hertfordshire, School of Education in collaboration with the Primary Science Teaching Trust.
Jane Turner, PSQM National Director said: “Gaining a Primary Science Quality Award is a significant achievement for a school. The profile and quality of science teaching and learning in each awarded school is very high. Children are engaging with great science both in and outside the classroom, developing positive attitudes towards science as well as secure scientific understanding and skills. Science subject leaders, their colleagues, head teachers, children, parents and governors should be very proud.”
Please click here to view our amazing portfolio of the excellent science curriculum that we offer.
We were delighted to be awarded the PSQM Gilt award for science teaching across our school.
Here is some of the amazing feedback that we received:
“Wow!, Smithdown Primary School and its community clearly values science.”
“It is really inspirational to see how you have capitalised on all of the opportunities for CPD”
“Children clearly engage in different types of enquiry”
“You have an effective system in place to support teacher assessment”
“Children are clearly developing their science capital through broadening their view of what scientists look like”
“Effective links with science and other subjects e.g. maths, DT and English”
“The important thing is to never stop questioning” Albert Einstein.
Intent
Science teaches an understanding of natural phenomena. It aims to stimulate a child’s curiosity in finding out why things happen in the way they do. At Smithdown Primary School, we follow the National Curriculum and we aim to develop a lively interest in science; encouraging children to ask “Why?” and “How?” We strive to develop children’s curiosity through child led enquiry; developing a range of skills which will enable them to work scientifically in a range of ways. Through this we hope to encourage a scientific approach to problem solving and an understanding of the world around them.
We value the importance of developing inquisitive young minds by giving our children a range of experiences working scientifically. we endeavour to provide our pupils with a range of opportunities to work scientifically- starting in EYFS. Please click on the links below to see how we build on prior learning to ensure progression in working scientifically. .
Progression in working scientifically at Smithdown
We are proud to be members of the Science Association; adapting and adopting key policies and documentation. The following documents are useful to see how we further break down the progression in our science curriculum.
ASE PLAN documents – Working scientifically skills in years 1 and 2
ASE PLAN documents – Working scientifically skills in years 3 and 4
ASE PLAN documents – Working scientifically skills in years 5 and 6
In addition to this, we follow the ASE PLAN documents for progression in knowledge.
Please click here to see our knowledge progression from y1-y6
Below is just as small taste of the fantastic science that takes place at Smithdown. For regular updates, be sure to check out our twitter page #smithdownsci
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Exploring how particles move in solids, liquids & gases @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci Something tells me that gas was the favourite…
Wow! Look at how tall our plants have grown. We have really taken care of them. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownsci @SmithdownPr
We had fun LOtC today by exploring light and shadows. We drew around our partners with chalk #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY3
We also explored the need for light to see by predicting which items were in each box. We allowed more light in at each observation and described what we could see and how this changed with more light #smithdownsci
A perfect day to observe & ask questions about our shadows. I think the weather knew we were kicking off our Light topic today @SmithdownPrimY3 #smithdownsci
We had some LOtC today to kick our new science topic off. We wondered why we were not able to see our shadows? We looked everywhere for them! We’ll explore our initial questions in the coming weeks #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY3
It was our last electricity lesson today so we were challenged to some scientific reasoning; Every circuit needs a… the children discussed whether they agreed or not or an “it depends on” with further explanation. Well done @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
Today we created a sensory garden and thought about what we would need to include. We talked about what we could see and smell #smithdowneyfs #smithdownsci
We have been learning about sustainable and unsustainable food systems today. We have learned so much about what needs to change about our current food system 🌍 #smithdowngeog #smithdownsci @FarmUrbanUK
We finally erupted our volcanoes today! 🌋We even discussed the science behind it 🥼🧪 #smithdowngeog #smithdownsci
