Science

Vision for Science Learning

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.

We have developed a progression of skills, knowledge and understanding throughout the school to work scientifically, based on enquiry and stimulating, first-hand, practical investigations using resources inside and outside our classrooms. Through science lessons, assemblies and our use of Mantle of the Expert techniques we learn about significant scientific characters, such as Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday and Dame Jane Goodall, and stand on the shoulders of giants to explore and seek to understand our planet and space. In discreet lessons and as teams of experts we study and investigate our amazing world.
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.

Curriculum Design and Pedagogical Approach

Teachers use the Rolling Planning Frameworks to identify the subject content for each Science topic; for example, Animals, including humans. Using the Science Progression of Knowledge and Skills document, together with the National Curriculum Programmes of Study, teachers choose which aspects of the unit to focus on. Their choices are guided by the character of the class, the needs of different groups in the cohort and by bearing in mind the school's core values of Compassion, Courage and Fairness.
Teachers then produce a Science Knowledge Organiser which contains key knowledge points and informs their lesson planning.
Science is taught through discreet lessons and links to the mantle of the Expert projects where possible.