Curriculum statement for Science at Chorleywood Primary School 

At Chorleywood Primary School, we are committed to providing our children with a curriculum that has a clear intention and impacts positively upon their needs.  It is designed to help pupils remember long term content and integrate new knowledge by coherently sequencing learning so that knowledge is cumulatively secured over time.

National Curriculum Intent

The national curriculum for science intends to ensure that all pupils: 

 Investigate

Explain 

Observe

A high-quality science education provides the foundations for understanding the world through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics. Science has changed our lives and is vital to the world’s future prosperity, and all pupils should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science including how this is used in their local community. Through building up a body of key foundational knowledge and concepts, pupils are encouraged to recognise and communicate the power of rational explanation and develop a sense of excitement and curiosity about natural phenomena. They are encouraged to understand and consolidate knowledge of how science can be used to explain what is occurring, predict how things will behave, and analyse causes.

Chorleywood Curriculum Intent

At Chorleywood Primary we encourage pupils to be inquisitive about the past throughout their time at school and beyond. The Science curriculum fosters a healthy curiosity in pupils about our universe and promotes respect for the living and non-living. We believe science encompasses the acquisition of knowledge, concepts, skills and positive attitudes. Throughout the programmes of study, pupils will acquire and develop the key substantive knowledge that has been identified within each unit and across each year group, as well as the application of disciplinary knowledge.

We ensure that the Working Scientifically skills are built-on and developed throughout the pupils’ time at the school so that they can apply their knowledge of science when using equipment, conducting experiments, building arguments and explaining concepts confidently and continue to ask questions and be curious about their surroundings.