Science
Aims and Purpose
Teaching offers opportunities to:
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To develop an enquiring and investigative
mind, asking how and why questions
about the world around us.
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To plan investigations and experiments to
answer how and why questions.
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To collect and record information from
investigations in a safe and controlled
way.
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To reflect on the results found and question whether findings were what was expected.
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To find ways of checking results.
To develop a scientific vocabulary.
Local events and parent support.
Science Museum
Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DD
Tel: 0870 870 4868
Opens every day from 10 am to 6pm
The museum is a fantastic resource whatever your
child’s topic at school. There is an interactive hands
on learning centre in the basement which must be
visited!
Science
The National History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD
Discover fossils, rocks and much more at this fascinating and historical museum!
Centre of the Cell
64 Turner Street
London
E1 2AB
This is an exciting new science centre, located inside the research building of the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen
Mary University of London. It is aimed at students
aged nine to sixteen years old, and covers cells and
cell biology in medical research.
If you would like to find out more information about
this centre you can access their website:
www.centreofthecell.org
Hackney City Farm
Science is a core subject and teaches children to
ask questions about the world around them.
Science helps children to develop strategies and
methods for finding out the answers to these questions. Children are then led to reflect on what they
have found out.
Children have opportunities to find out about Science through a range of sources. These include
first hand experience of experiments and using
equipment safely. Children also use virtual experiments on school based websites. Children use
iPad apps, the internet and books to research their
projects.
1a Goldsmiths Row
London, E2 8QA
Working together is important in
Opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10am-4.30pm
Science and children learn to
For over twenty years, this farm has been giving the local
community the opportunity to experience farming right in
the heart of the city.
share resources as well as
ideas and findings.
Year 3
Topics covered across the school.
Summer: Forces & Magnets and Humans
Year 1
Autumn: Animals including Humans and Everyday
Materials
You can help at home by: discussing the 5 senses, thinking
about different types of animals and discussing properties
of everyday materials and their uses.
Spring: Plants and Animals
You can help at home by: discussing the features of a
plant and grouping animals by their features and habitats.
Summer: Growing plants and Seasonal Changes
You can help at home by: growing a seedling in a flowerpot
and talking about the weather.
Year 2
You can help at home by: discussing how friction is used in
everyday life and how a healthy diet supports human life
Year 4
Autumn: Forces and All Living Things
You can help at home by: thinking about air resistance and
looking at woodlice habitats
Spring: Sound and Humans
You can help at home by: identifying different sounds (louder
and quieter) and discussing how to keep our teeth healthy
Summer: Electricity and States of Matter
You can help at home by: heating and melting during cooking
at home and discussing circuits of lights
Autumn: Forces and uses of Everyday Materials
You can help at home by: discussing uses of materials at
home and how pushes, pulls and friction help in everyday
life.
Spring: Plants and Animals and their Habitats
You can help at home by: discussing conditions for plant
growth and how animals adapt to their habitats.
Summer: Humans and Electricity
You can help at home by: discussing features of humans
and the importance of a balanced diet and how you use
electricity at home and in the local environment.
Year 3
Autumn: Rocks and Plants
The Early Learning Goals
Children will learn to:
Investigate objects and materials by using all of their
senses as appropriate.
Find out about and identify some features of living
things, objects and events they observe.
Look closely at similarities, differences and patterns
and change.
Ask questions about why things happen and how
things work.
Find out about and identify the uses of everyday technology and use information and communication technology and programmable toys to support learning.
Year 5
Autumn: Sound and All Living Things
You can help at home by: discussing the difference between
mammals, insects, reptiles and fish and listening to music and
talking about the high/low/loud/quiet sounds.
Spring: Humans and Properties and Changes of Materials
You can help at home by: researching gases at the library,
investigating making ice in the freezer and talking about our
skeleton
Observe and find out about features of the natural
world.
You can help at home by: playing with your child and
talking about what they have found out. Trips to the
park and enjoying finding out about the world around
them.
Summer: Earth and Space and Forces
You can help at home by: researching the planets in our solar
system and looking at mechanisms in toys and everyday objects
Year 6
Useful websites:
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Your guide to all that is new at the Science museum
www.creativitycentre.com/sciencealliance
You can help at home by: discussing different types of
plants and conditions for growth and different rocks and
their uses
Autumn: Evolution and Inheritance and Humans
Fun and ideas from children across the country
Spring: Light and Forces and Magnets
Spring: Light and Electricity
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/challenge
You can help at home by: looking at toys with springs and
fridge magnets. Noting the direction of shadows.
Summer: Electricity and All Living Things
A quiz to help the junior child prepare for the SATS as
well as practise their topic knowledge
You can help at home by: helping your child research these
areas using the internet and the library. Use the website
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/challenge to help your child
prepare for SATs.
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/index.shtml
Follow the links to Science for advice on tv programs