Science

At St Thomas, we want our children to be naturally curious about the world around them and to gain an understanding of the world in which they live. We follow the National Curriculum to structure our science curriculum, as we know that this means our curriculum is ambitious for all pupils. Throughout our school, children are encouraged to develop and use a range of working scientifically skills including: asking questions, planning, predicting, researching, observing, measuring and recording. We have thought carefully about how we sequence learning over time and have broken down learning into small steps that revisits and teaches new learning starting from when children enter Foundation stage until they leave.

To support planning, we use Cornerstones scheme of work that is taught in discrete lessons. This scheme provides full coverage of the primary science programmes of study and provides access to all subject knowledge and working scientifically objectives in a range of contexts to support the embedding of these skills and concepts.