Science encourages children to look more closely at the world around them, to ask questions about it and find ways of making sense of it.
At LIS we use the Cambridge International Primary Programme (CIPP) as a framework for our science teaching. Each year the children will study a series of units, including (from Grade 2 onwards) some units from the disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics. The units cover a range of science topics, some units are short and some cover topics in more depth. All of them allow the opportunity for further study.
Aside from scientific knowledge, within each unit the children also learn the processes of scientific enquiry which also links with our genre teaching in Language and Literacy
The teaching and learning of science is supported by a series of resources; books, practical equipment and software.
Science curriculum
| Grade | Life processes and living things – (Biology) |
Materials and their
properties – (Chemistry)
|
Physical processes –
(Physics)
|
| Reception | Senses | Light and dark | |
| 1 | Introducing leaves, stems and flowers | Pushes and Pulls | |
| 2 |
Life processes and living things
Healthy eating |
Sorting
into groups Simple properties of materials Materials for a purpose |
Electricity |
| 3 | Skeletons
and Muscles Studying habitats |
Solids,
liquids, gases Changes of state |
Sound Magnets |
| 4 | The
life cycle of a plant The way we see things |
Evaporation and condensation | The
movement of the earth Shadows |
| 5 | Human
organs and systems Food chains |
Reversible and irreversible changes | Mass and
weight Electrical conductors and insulators |