The Science curriculum at St. Peter’s is carefully sequenced to build pupils’ knowledge and embed concepts in long-term memory. In the early years and Key Stage 1, children explore themselves and their immediate world: they learn to identify body parts and senses, describe weather and seasons, investigate materials and their simple properties, and classify common plants and animals. Later, they compare different materials for specific uses, discover how plants grow and what they need to survive and study habitats and food chains. In Key Stage 2 the curriculum broadens: pupils become “rock detectives” by examining different rock types and fossils, consider nutrition and the function of skeletons and muscles, investigate forces, magnets and light and discover the parts and needs of flowering plants. They progress to constructing simple circuits and understanding switches, exploring states of matter and the water cycle, learning how the digestive system and teeth work, and recognising how sounds travel. Upper Key Stage 2 topics include life cycles, reproduction and evolution, dissolving and separation of materials, properties of materials, forces and simple machines, the solar system and Earth’s movements, circuit voltage, classification of living things, light and shadows, and the circulatory system. Throughout, children revisit and deepen prior learning, develop investigative skills and scientific vocabulary, and use the local environment to explore living things and materials, ensuring steady progression and secure understanding at each stage.
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