Science at Harbury
"The important thing is to never stop questioning."
Albert Einstein
At Harbury C of E Primary School we want our children to be curious about the world around them. We encourage them to embrace their sense of wonder and guide them into becoming enquiry-based learners. The science in our school promotes questioning, investigation, evaluation and the use of scientific vocabulary. Furthermore, we involve the wider school community in events such as Science Week as we want our children to develop an appreciation of the uses and implications of science now and in the future.
Our science topics are fixed and follow the same order each year. Teachers use the National Curriculum and the PLAN primary science resource, supported by Hamiliton Brookes, when they are planning their quality first teaching sequences. Knowledge organisers are shared with the children as an introduction to the topic and a reference guide for future lessons. We then extend our children’s learning with open-ended purple questions, challenging them to find the odd one out or imagine what if?
Scientific enquiry skills are embedded in each topic the children study. These topics are revisited and developed throughout their time with us. Topics, such as Plants, are taught in Key Stage One and studied again in further detail throughout Key Stage Two. Furthermore, they have opportunities to increase their knowledge and appreciation of the natural world with the help of extra-curricular groups such as Earthworms and Green Team. This allows the children to grow in their conceptual understanding, whilst embedding the substantive knowledge into their long-term memory. Wherever possible we make meaningful links to other subjects, so, whilst reading “The Promise”, Year 3 will dissect flowers to understand how plants reproduce. As part of a cross curricular maths project, Year 6 calculate the amount of carbon capture gained from each of the trees on our school field.
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