Our Learning / Science
Science is all around us! Thus, our aim at St. Margaret’s is to unlock and nurture our children’s awe and curiosity of science and we believe investigation is the most powerful route to this. We want to strengthen their scientific thinking, to help them discover how intricately Science is linked to everything in the world - which in turn will foster a curiosity and respect for the world we live in. With purposeful, engaging, hands-on lessons we encourage all pupils to confidently explore a variety of scientific scenarios, challenge and analyse consequences of their findings and in turn deepen their understanding. We promote making links and asking further questions so they will leave school with a passion for the scientific world where they will confidently use scientific language and tools.
At Saint Margaret Clitherow School we plan well-structured lessons that develop a range of scientific skills through practical, research and theory-based learning. Throughout each unit, teachers and pupils are encouraged to use our scientific vocabulary pages, making sure they have a strong understanding to use them accurately. As well as that, we constantly ask questions about the topic to deepen scientific thinking. They are encouraged to explore possible answers as and when they learn more in class, thinking about whether their original perceptions were valid. With this creative scheme, as they progress through the school, our pupils develop more autonomy with investigations where they advance from modelled and guided investigations towards being supported in devising, constructing, and reflecting upon their own experiments and research.
Alongside this, we use “Working Scientifically Wheels” which is a list of the scientific skills they develop over their key stage. This is referred to within each lesson, so they make the appropriate link between knowledge and practical ‘Scientist Skills’ the learning develops.
Overall, our curriculum aims to develop a sense of purpose and reality to science and nurture independent thinking, link making and questioning.
Please scroll through the gallery below for a flavour of Science learning at our school
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