Science

We value the learning that takes place in the outdoors and the enrichment it can bring. 

At Cockington Primary School, we believe that science is fundamental in supporting children’s growing knowledge and understanding of the world around them.  From the EYFS Early Learning Goals, all the way through to the end of KS2, we work closely with our pupils to develop their excitement and curiosity of scientific concepts, steeped in the three main strands of Biology, Chemistry and Physics.​

Children are encouraged to question, hypothesise, predict, test and analyse cause and effect involving living and non-living things.  Teaching staff facilitate this by embedding disciplinary practice into the teaching and learning of all lessons.  In this way, children can formulate methods of working that enable them to make sense of their experiences in practical and exciting ways, drawing their own conclusions.  In doing so, children can make sense of and confidently apply substantive knowledge when sharing results, discussing and explaining scientific phenomena.​

​As a coastal school, we maximise learning opportunities by teaching both inside and out of the classroom, providing extended enrichment opportunities for our children and making links with other aspects of our wider school curriculum, including our Wild for Learning and Ocean Schemes of Work.

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Sequential Curriculum

Science strands with declarative and procedural knowledge that deepens and broadens progressively each year:

• Biology
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Scientific understanding

The understanding of these is deepened every time they are re-visited, through links to prior learning.

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