‘Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at’ – Stephen Hawking.
From September 2023, our Science curriculum has been designed using Developing Experts. The curriculum ensures children have high quality learning in relation to all areas of the National Curriculum.
Developing Experts is delivered through a sequenced curriculum designed to enable the learner to experience a coherent curriculum delivered through a logical progression. Attention has been paid to the order in which knowledge has been delivered, built on and revisited. The curriculum has carefully sequenced science units to provide a vehicle for teachers to embellish and unify what may otherwise seem like disconnected fragments of knowledge. The embedded unit quizzes have been designed to optimise learning outcomes for pupils to enable concepts to have a greater chance of becoming part of the learner’s long-term memory. The curriculum places a focus on Knowledge and Skill development utilising a Story Telling Approach. Quizzes are used in order to secure knowledge over time into long term memory.
science progression of knowledge document
scientific enquiry progression document