Hambrough Primary and Nursery School

At Hambrough Primary, our aim is to provide pupils with strong foundational scientific knowledge and key concepts that nurture their curiosity about the natural world and its many phenomena. Our science curriculum is designed to teach pupils a range of scientific enquiry methods, enabling them to investigate and answer questions about the world in which they live.

We strive to equip pupils with the skills and understanding needed to interpret scientific findings and consider their implications. We also encourage pupils to ask thoughtful scientific questions and to begin recognising the important role science plays in shaping the future at personal, national and global levels.

Through our curriculum, pupils develop a range of substantive and disciplinary knowledge within Science, including:

Substantive knowledge- is the subject knowledge and explicit vocabulary used to learn about the content.

• Working Scientifically (scientific enquiry)
• Biology (life processes and living things)
• Chemistry (materials and their properties)
• Physics (physical processes and their properties)

Disciplinary knowledge – this considers how scientific knowledge originates and is revised. It is through disciplinary knowledge that children gradually become more expert by thinking like a scientist.

• Observing changes over time
• Carrying out comparative and fair tests
• Identifying and classifying
• Recognising patterns and relationships in nature
• Recording and reporting findings (KS2)
• Researching and using secondary sources