Science is a very important feature of our curriculum and is taught weekly across the school.
Science is often taught in a practical and hands on way. Pupils are taught scientific skills which they apply to experiments. The following investigative skills form an integral part of every child's education at GEMS Didcot Primary Academy: questioning, research and planning, predicting, observing and measuring, experimenting, analysing, explaining and evaluating. We also like to enhance our science work by inviting in scientists to further our knowledge. We have welcomed physicists from Rutherfords, and shows from Atomic Science and Bright Sparks. We are also working with teachers from Abingdon School to further enhance our Science provision. Science is taught at least weekly, with some topic areas being science focused each year providing further opportunity to develop scientific skills and knowledge.
Year 1:
Autumn Term 1: Human Body and senses
Autumn Term 2: Seasonal changes, plants, Identifying and classifying animals
Spring 1:
Spring 2: Every day materials
Summer 1: Animals -
Summer 2: Plants
Year 2:
Autumn 1: Living things - the importance of exercise, properties of every day materials
Autumn 2: Floating and sinking
Spring 1: Identifying and comparing everyday materials
Spring 2: Living things and their habitats
Summer1: Plants - conditions for growth
Summer 2: Living things and their habitats, including humans
Year 3:
Autumn 1: Rocks and Soils
Autumn 2: Forces and magnets, electricity
Spring 1: Food chains and Materials
Spring 2: Light and shadows
Summer 1: Nutrition
Summer 2: Plants
Year 4:
Autumn 1: Living things and their habitats
Autumn 2: Teeth types, tooth decay and hygiene, the digestive system
Spring 1: Electricity
Spring 2: States of matter
Summer 1: states of matter
Summer 2: Sound
updated Sept 2018