Steeple Bumpstead Primary School

Welcome to Science

About Our Science Curriculum

We follow the CUSP (Curriculum Unity Schools Partnership) Science Curriculum. This curriculum is ambitious and supports our pupils to have the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding to support them in each phase of their learning and in their lives beyond school.

CUSP Science is organised into three distinct subject domains: biology, physics and chemistry. In this expansive science curriculum, topics covered include:

  • Evolution and inheritance
  • Living things and their habitats – plants, animals, humans
  • Identifying and comparing materials
  • Scientists and inventors
  • Materials and shapes
  • The environment
  • Forces and magnets
  • Rocks
  • Light
  • Electricity and sound
  • States of matter
  • Earth and space