East Halton Science Curriculum Intent

Our primary school curriculum is carefully designed to ensure a broad and balanced education that meets the needs of all pupils. The curriculum intent aims to inspire a love for learning, foster curiosity, and equip pupils with the skills and knowledge they need to flourish academically and personally. It is rooted in a deep understanding of the local community that ensures that we ‘value our past’, celebrate diversity, promote cultural capital, prepare pupils for life in modern Britain and ‘look to the future with hope’.

Commitment to our pupils is fulfilled through our high aspiration, passion and drive and is founded upon the following four key principles:

1. Unlocking children's true academic potential to ensure that they ‘flourish’.

We aim to develop confident, resilient, inquisitive, independent & knowledgeable children through the delivery of a coherent & structured enquiry based curriculum which builds on prior learning from nursery to year 6. Individuals are challenged to reach their true potential and be ready for the next stage in their education. We want our children to believe in the transformative power of change and to ‘look to the future with hope’ in their hearts.

In Science we do this through:

• Providing children with the opportunities to explore science in real life content relating science to meaningful links.

• We teach science through the concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to ensure children can access learning.

• Curriculum is developed through cycles to ensure that knowledge is built upon to ensure that learning is embedded.

• Providing an engaging curriculum that enriches children’s curiosity about the world around them.

2. Unlocking children’s true social and emotional potential to ensure that they ‘flourish’ as unique, well-rounded individuals.

We aim to foster happy and healthy children, within a safe environment, who are given the help they need to learn, grow and achieve as much as they possibly can in an atmosphere which nourishes a healthy mind and body. We want our children to believe that each one of them holds the power to make a difference in the world through ‘doing all of the good they can.’ 

In Science we do this through:

• Providing opportunities for trips and workshops to enhance our curriculum.

• British Values

• Providing opportunities to visit the local area and relate science learning in context.

• Developing opportunities for careers.

3. Unlocking children’s true potential to ‘flourish’ as life-long learners through raising individual expectations, self-belief and exposure to ‘opportunity’

We aim to help our children to be aware of and see ‘opportunity’ beyond their locality and starting points through exposure to the wider world. We aim to provide a broad, balanced curriculum with a wide variety of experiences which nurture the talents and interests of our children enabling them to become resilient, creative, enquiring learners and effective communicators who persevere and aspire for excellence.

In Science we do this through:

• Including cultural capital to ensure that children are exposed to different scientists, careers and jobs.

• Links to the local feeder school to experience French days.

• Links to other cross curricular subjects such as DT and Geography – showing how these subjects build on across the curriculum.

4. For our children to ‘do all of the good they can’ by broadening their horizons and developing each of them as a responsible local and global citizen. 

We want our children to appreciate their role as part of our community. We encourage them to ask questions, make informed choices and to take responsibility for the decisions they make. As a result, we hope to foster in our children an awareness of the difference they can make as local & global citizens, treating others with compassion and respect.

In Science we do this through:

• Creating a curriculum which builds on prior learning through cycles.

• Utilising a programme of work within the MFL curriculum which enables children to explore the cultural capital of another country through its language and traditions

•  Exposing children to a range of scientists to explore their world of work.

East Halton Science Curriculum Intent Map

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