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Science
At the Heights Federation we follow the KAPOW’s Primary Curriculum.
Kapow Primary’s Science curriculum aims to develop a sense of excitement and curiosity about natural phenomena alongside developing scientific enquiry skills and science in action. It is a spiral curriculum based on six topics that are revisited with increasing complexity that allows the pupil to revise and build on their previous knowledge and joy of science and its exploration.
In each lesson pupils ‘sticky knowledge’ is recalled through flashback 4s and engaging recall activities promoting frequent pupil reflection on prior learning, ensuring new learning is approached with confidence. Each lesson has a mixture of videos, whole class activities and individual activities, that focus on knowledge and scientific enquiry. Towards the end of each session there is a ‘science in action’ section which allows the pupils a chance to encourage critical thinking, empower pupils to question the how’s and whys of the world around them.
Long Term Plan
Science is taught as part of a half-termly topic, covering both Knowledge and scientific skills together rather than discretely, to provide relevant investigations and exploration.
To enrich our science curriculum further we take any opportunities to learn outside of the classroom through educational visits, outdoor learning and celebrating Science Week.
Click here (add link) to see an overview of our science curriculum.
Exciting SCience
British Science week 2024 was 'Change and Adaption'. During the week we carried out an whole school investigaton to find out if the tallest child in the school had thee largest feet. We researched how different animals are adapted to their environments and used this knowledge to create animals that would survive and adapt to our new imaginery environments. We observed butterflies in our nets as crystalises and created our own life cycle books, predicting what they will look like as they emerge. Finally we observed worms from the school field, finding out how they are adapted to their environment. We wanted to find out what the worms eat, so we created wormeries and observed them for the next couple of weeks as we fed them different fruit and vegetables. As part of the celebration we ran a sunflower competition, in which we had some amazing entries. The tallest one being an amazing 287cm tall sunflower.
Parent information
You can help us with our science by being super scientists yourselves, talking about the world as you go, helping to spark questions in your child by asking them what they know or how they know it for sure. Developing these skills will encourage your childs reasoning skills, linking their newly learnt knowledge to their everyday experience.
Visiting places such as Eureka, Bradford Media Museum and Manchester Science Museum are just a few of the amazing places that you can visit and explore. But don't forget, spending time in our own backgardens and local areas would be amazing too, as it is full of opportunities to test out science in action.
