Science

To develop Scientific skills, all children need rich opportunities to communicate in play and in their daily lives as the first steps in developing emergent science skills. These will stimulate their senses as well as encourage them to question, explore and wonder at their environment. At Padbury CE School, emergent scientific study skills are taught through activities which provide pupils opportunities to respond consistently to familiar objects, explore materials in increasingly complex ways and observe the results of their own actions.

Pupils are taught the key active learning skills of observation, curiosity, a willingness to have a go, trial and error, problem solving, comparing, predicting and testing that are fundamental to developing an understanding of the world around them. Scientific thinking books are used to capture that curiosity, thinking and outcomes in a way that means they focus on their scientific understanding, not secretarial skills.

We follow the Kapow scheme of work for science which supports children's progression of knowledge and skills throughout the school. The progression documents can be seen at school as they cannot be published on other websites. 

We capitalise on pupils’ areas of special interests, using these opportunities to extend learning in all areas of science so that each child can make progress from their individual starting point.

At Padbury we hold the Gold Primary Quality Mark for Science as a result of our high quality Science teaching.