Vision: For children to show a passion for Science and a curiosity for learning about the world around them through an exciting, engaging and challenging curriculum.

FROM THE CHILDREN:

"My favourite part or science was floating and sinking, I find something out that was good. The sponge sinked because it filled up with water." Orion, Year 1

"We have to look after ur planet and not chop down trees, make paper a different way. I can recycle, that's slowing down global warming." Grayson, Year 1

"I liked finding out what material I could squeeze, bend and stretch. I remember in reception we did exploding with coke bottles." Connie, Year 2

"I liked learning about rocks. We looked at sedimentary rocks and we created layers with sweets so we could see the types of layers. You know when lava cools down, it creates igneous rocks." Freddie, Year 3

FROM THE SCIENCE CO-ORDINATOR:

Hello, I am Mrs Patel, the science co-ordinator at Folly View Primary School. I am passionate about leading science in our school and want our children to leave us being independent learners, resilient and full of questions to learn more. Science encourages critical thinking and problem solving which children can use both in, and out of the classroom. Science supports children's understanding of this huge and magnificent world around them.

Science Curriculum Overview

The science curriculum overview provides an outline of the progression of skills children will cover throughout the year in each topic and year group. These are linked to the National Curriculum. The overview links to the Long Term Plan for science.

Long Term Plan

The long term plan outlines the sequence of science topics and skills to be taught within each year group and aligns with the National Curriculum. It ensures children progressively build upon their scientific knowledge and skills throughout their learning journey within science.

Intent

At Folly View Primary we recognise and understand the importance of Science in everyday life and the need for lessons to have a skill-based focus, where the knowledge can be taught through this. It will develop and build on the natural curiosity of children, and encourage respect and appreciation of the natural world, for both the living and non-living. It is our intention that the teaching and learning provided develops the key knowledge and shows progression across the school within the strands of Science. Children will acquire and develop the application of scientific skills to ensure that they can apply these when using equipment, carrying out experiments, explaining key concepts whilst being able to reason scientifically, ask questions, explain processes and build on their own curiosity. We aim to immerse children in scientific language and vocabulary, which not only aids children’s knowledge and understanding of the topic, but also of the world around them. It is our intention that children retain the knowledge that is pertinent to Science which also has a real-life context. Where possible, we extend children’s learning through the use of our locality and promote a healthy lifestyle. We endeavour to ensure that the Science curriculum that we provide as well as the desirable learning behaviours encouraged by our Learning Muscles, will give children the motivation, excitement and determination to continue to further develop their skills in the next stage of their education. We hope to prepare our children for this ever growing and changing scientific and technological world in which they live.

Impact - Learning in Action

The aim is not solely to give children the knowledge they need to succeed now, but also for what comes next. Children should be ready to move onto the next stages of their education. Through science we continue to develop children's natural curiosity, respect and appreciation of the world and all of its phenomena. Children are engaged and show enjoyment in their learning of science, as well as challenged by the learning taking place. This is demonstrated in a variety of ways including; displays, children's work, pupil voice, observations and photos. Take a look at some of the things we get up to in science below:

Engineering Science Fair - 

Children across the KS1 and KS2 worked really hard on their engineering science fair projects, and creating their exhibitions. Each year chose what their investigations would be based on as long as it linked to engineering. Winners were picked from each class and then final winners from across the school.The overall winners chosen attended the science fair at the Williams. Once there, children had the opportunity to work with some KS3 children on a variety of science investigations, they had a tour of the Williams museum and of course present their exhibitions to the judges.

Take a look below....

Engineer Visitors

As part of engineering, Year 4 had some engineer visitors. They shared with us what their job in engineering was. Children were amazing listeners and showed great interest asking questions such as; what inspired you to become an engineer? what is your favourite finding? Please take a look below.

British Science Week (2024)

We celebrated British Science week across the whole school. Children took part in a variety of investigations in each year group. 

Below is the sleepy slow reactions investigation explained. You could have a go at home with your children.

Science Club - Years 3 and 4 - Term 4 (2024)

We enjoyed making a simple circuit and investigating adding buzzers, lightbulbs, motors and switches.

International Women and Girl's Day in Science-11th March

This year we celebrated this amazing day in school. Each year group chose a different female scientists to celebrate and learn about. 

Sunflower - Mary Anning: We had a dinosaur world indoors and in the outdoors sand tray we hunted for fossils and stones with paint brushes. We looked at lots of books about dinosaurs.

Year 1 - Kathryn Johnson: This also linked to all of the wonderful learning we have been doing in History about space.

Year 2 - Ada Lovelace

Year 3 - Marie Curie: We learnt about some of her main achievements and discussed how she was as a figurehead of women in science. The children created a timeline of her life. 

Year 4 - Wang Zhenyi: Wang is considered as one of the greatest astronomers and scholars in Chinese history. We learned all about solar and lunar eclipses.

Science Fair (2023)

Children across the KS1 and KS2 worked really hard on their science fair investigations and creating their exhibitions. Each year chose what their investigations would be based on as long as it linked to being green. Winners were picked from each class and then final winners from each key stage.The overall winners chosen attended the science fair at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. Once there, children had the opportunity to work with some KS3 children on a variety of science investigations, take part in in a WOW investigation related to Space, watch a live demonstration using liquid nitrogen and of course present there exhibitions to the judges.

Take a look below....