Science

Local events and parent support.

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 ques-tions. Children are then led to reflect on what they have found out.

Children have opportunities to find out about Sci-ence through a range of sources. These include first hand experience of experiments and using equipment safely. Children also use virtual experi-ments on school based websites. Children use iPad apps, the internet and books to research their projects.

Working together is important in

Science and children learn to

share resources as well as

ideas and findings.

Science

Aims and Purpose

Teaching offers opportunities to:

To develop an enquiring and investigative

mind, asking how and why questions

about the world around us.

To plan investigations and experiments to

answer how and why questions.

To collect and record information from

investigations in a safe and controlled

way.

To reflect on the results found and ques-

tion whether findings were what was ex-

pected.

To find ways of checking results.

To develop a scientific vocabulary.

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!

The National History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD Discover fossils, rocks and much more at this fasci-nating and historical museum!

Centre of the Cell 64 Turner Street London E1 2AB This is an exciting new science centre, located in-side the research building of the Barts and The Lon-don 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

1a Goldsmiths Row

London, E2 8QA

Opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10am-4.30pm

For over twenty years, this farm has been giving the local community the opportunity to experience farming right in the heart of the city.

Year 3

Summer: Forces & Magnets and Humans

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

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

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 ob-jects

Year 6

Autumn: Evolution and Inheritance and Humans

Spring: Light and Electricity

Summer: Electricity and All Living Things

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.

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 tech-nology and use information and communication tech-nology and programmable toys to support learning.

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.

Topics covered across the school.

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

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

You can help at home by: discussing different types of plants and conditions for growth and different rocks and their uses

Spring: Light and Forces and Magnets

You can help at home by: looking at toys with springs and fridge magnets. Noting the direction of shadows.

Useful websites:

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

Your guide to all that is new at the Science museum

www.creativitycentre.com/sciencealliance

Fun and ideas from children across the country

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/challenge

A quiz to help the junior child prepare for the SATS as well as practise their topic knowledge

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/index.shtml

Follow the links to Science for advice on tv programs