About Our Science Curriculum

Science at Steeple Bumpstead develops curious learners and creates life long investigators of the world around us.

A high quality science education provides the foundations for understanding the world through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics. Science has changed our lives and is vital to the world’s future prosperity, and all pupils should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science. Through building up a body of key foundational knowledge and concepts, pupils are encouraged to recognise the power of rational are encouraged to understand how science can be used to explain what is occurring, predict how things will behave, and analyse causes.

Curriculum Aims

The national curriculum for science aims to ensure that all pupils:

• Develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics.
• Develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them.
• Children are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future.
• Our Science curriculum is knowledge and vocabulary rich, ensuring children gain a deep understanding of fundamental scientific knowledge and concepts as well as embedding key science specific vocabulary and terminology (Tier 3 vocabulary).

Please click on the attached Subject Handbook to view the Intent, Implementation and Impact of our Curriculum.

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