Science

At New Road Primary School, our intent for Science is to provide a high-quality, comprehensive, and stimulating education that inspires and challenges all students. Our aim is to develop learners who are confident and competent in scientific knowledge, understanding and skills. We believe that all our students should experience hands-on, practical lessons, which bring science to life and enable them to develop their investigative skills. Ultimately, we want to motivate learners to become scientifically minded individuals who have a lifelong enthusiasm for science and its applications in everyday life.

At New Road Primary School, our science curriculum, is carefully sequenced to not only ensure it meets the requirements of the National Curriculum but builds on children’s previous learning and allows them to be fully prepared for future learning.  Therefore, sequential component knowledge is clearly broken down into steps and purposeful tasks allow pupils to embed that knowledge.

Retrieval practice is at the heart of our Science curriculum. Revisiting prior learning and carrying out retrieval practice is an important aspect of learning and support pupils to commit their knowledge to their long-term memory.

We plan enrichment activities to support scientific learning outside of the classroom. This includes visiting Museums, scientific workshops, Planetarium visits, hands on experiences with animals and visits from experts. Throughout the year, we have visitors from STEM jobs where the children can see how their learning can be transferred into jobs for their future. This allows the children to see how science is linked to the real world and their everyday experiences. Our school runs a successful eco club to support the children’s understanding in how we can work as a community to help improve the environment. Our forest school makes clear links with our science curriculum so the children experience scientific principles in an outside learning environment.

Throughout the year, we run successful science weeks where the children across the school work together learning about a common theme. The children thoroughly enjoy being immersed in a theme and displaying their learning in different ways.