Science Curriculum Intent
In Science, children learn about the animate and inanimate world around them. They should be taught about:
- Developing a sense of wonder about the world around them
- Ways of finding out about living things, materials and phenomena
- Interpreting scientific evidence
- Communicating scientific ideas
- Making links between scientific activities and ideas
- Ways in which scientific ideas affect people’s lives
- Ways in which scientific issues affect the environment
- The cultural implications of scientific activities and ideas
- The moral issues associated with scientific activities and ideas
- Cause and effect
The Knowledge, Skills and Understanding which children gain through their study of Science can be regarded in terms of:
- Enquiry
- Interpretation
- Living things
- Materials
- Physical processes
- Communicating