Science programmes
of study: key stages
1 and 2
National curriculum in England
September 2013
In Science, the scientific skills are
set out at the beginning of each
section of the programmes of
study (Y1, Y2, Lower KS2, Upper
KS2 and KS3).
Here is an example from Lower
Key Stage 2.
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Science programmes
of study: key stages
1 and 2
National curriculum in England
September 2013
These skills can then be
developed and deployed in the
range of ‘content’ that is specified
in the programme of study (the
‘knowledge context’).
Here is an example from Year 4.
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Of course, although these approaches enable us to assess against the
new criteria, and allow us to take account of subject skills as well as
knowledge and understanding ….. they do not enable us to attribute a
Level or to work out how many levels of progress have been made.
This is why, rather belatedly, the DFE is working on its four new
“Performance Descriptors” that we mentioned in Unit 1.
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