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Morda C

Vision for Science Learning


INTENT
Here at Morda our Science Curriculum aims to inspire children, building on their innate curiosity, encouraging them to be inquisitive and challenging their thinking about the world around us.



 

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IMPLEMENTATION
We have developed a 2 year rolling programme to map the teaching of disciplinary and substantive knowledge throughout the school.  Pupils work scientifically, based on an enquiry question and practical investigations using resources inside and outside our classrooms.  The school use the Shropshire Scientific Enquiry Planning Boards to ensure progression in scientific inquiry practise and vocabulary.
Through carefully sequenced science lessons, with learning objectives taken from our year group subject progression documents, pupils develop their knowledge of physics, chemistry and biology. Teachers plan half termly, creating a knowledge organiser with the key knowledge, vocabulary and enquiry questions on it. The  knowledge organiser includes a topic mind-map which pupils use as a retrieval practise aid, to help them revise, in order to know more and remember more.  Pupils start each new topic by creating their own mind map of what they already know and complete the project with a post-learning mind map showing what they have learned.
When appropriate, we use Mantle of the Expert techniques to help us think like scientists. We also learn about the work of significant scientific characters, such as Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday and Dame Jane Goodall, as we  seek to understand our amazing world and space. 
We are guided by our School Values of courage, compassion and fairness to investigate and consider our human impact on the natural world, our responsibilities to all living beings and the environment, and to manage the sustainability of our planet.

IMPACT
Children leave Morda with a good grounding in key scientific disciplinary and substantive knowledge. They are able to carry out scientific investigations to test their own theories in a fair and logical way (fair-testing). Pupils can talk about the topics they have covered using appropriate scientific language. Children make good progress in science at Morda (as evidenced by secondary transition assessments) They leave Morda with a solid foundation in scientific learning and enthusiasm for the subject as they progress into key stage 3.
   



Morda Science Overview

Subject Progression

Morda Science Progression of Skills and Knowledge
Morda Science Rolling Programme 2022/2023

End Points

Science Key Stage 1 End Points
Science Key stage 2 End Points

Knowledge Organisers 22/23

Shamrocks Spring Term 1 2023 Properties and Changes of Materials
Roses Spring Term 1 2023 Materials and their Properties
Daffodils Spring Term 1 2023 Everyday Materials
Bluebells Spring Term 1 2023 Materials

Bluebells Autumn Term 1 2022 Ourselves
Bluebells Autumn Term 2 2022 Seasons and Weather
Daffodils Autumn Term 1 2022 Light
Daffodils Autumn Term 2 2022 Forces and Magnets
Roses Autumn Term 1 2022 Sound
Roses Autumn Term 2 2022 Electricity
Shamrocks Autumn Term 1 2022 Forces
Shamrocks Autumn Term 2 2022 Light (Including colour)

Knowledge Organisers 21/22

Bluebells Autumn Term 2021 Seasonal Changes
Daffodils Autumn Term 2021 Sound
Roses Autumn Term 2021 Forces
Shamrocks Autumn Term 2021 Earth in Space
Shamrocks Autumn Term 2 2021 Electricity
Bluebells Spring Term 2022 Everyday materials
Daffodils Spring Term 2022 Materials and Rocks
Roses Spring Term 2022 Everyday Materials
Shamrocks Spring Term 2022 Properties of Materials and Changing of Materials

Knowledge Organisers 20/21

Alps/ Snow Autumn 2020 Seasonal change and Habitats
Rockies Autumn 2020 Electricity
Rockies Autumn 2020 Sound
Andes Autumn 2020 Forces
Andes Autumn 2020 Light
Himalayas Autumn 2020 Light
Alps /Snow Spring 2021 Everyday Materials
Rockies Spring 2021 States of Matter
Andes Spring 2021 States of Matter
Andes Spring 2021 Electricity
Himalayas Spring 2021 Forces
Alps & Snowdonia Summer 2021 In the garden, Animals, including humans
Rockies Summer 2021 Animals, including humans
Andes Summer 2021 Animals, including humans and All Living Things
Hims Summer 2021 Animals, including humans, All Living Things, Evolution and Inheritance

Interviews with children about their learning

At the end of the Spring Term we interviewed some of the KS2 children and asked them what they had learned about Light and Sound.

Bluebells 1.3 Why does Christmas matter to Christians?

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