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Head of Department: Mr J. Rodgers
j.rodgers@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
Science Curriculum Intent
At TKS, we believe that the study of science is important because science allows us to develop new technologies, solve practical problems, and make informed decisions
The foundations of science are built on an understanding of:
- cells and systems, plants and the environment, and variation and inheritance in biology
- particles and matter, chemical reactions, and earth and atmosphere in chemistry
- forces and motion, energy, and waves in physics.
The core knowledge is science is both deep and broad, it more than covers the national curriculum. They will apply this when completing practical science safely, collecting data, making predictions, drawing conclusions, applying concepts and ideas in different contexts or when they draw links across different years and subjects.
Our classrooms support our learners to achieve by fostering high academic aspiration, nurturing curiosity, and encouraging critical thinking.
As part of the science curriculum, learners are provided with a range of high quality academic texts with the aim of explicitly teaching scientific vocabulary, modelling fluent reading, encouraging reading of scientific articles, and encouraging a culture of reading.
We support pupils to be compassionate and keep each other safe by modelling safe and compassionate behaviours, explicitly teaching pupils how to stay safe in a science lab and how to keep others safe by reducing risk.
Through the science curriculum will run a golden thread of wellbeing where we teach the pupils about their body and how to stay safe, that could be reproduction and relationship, disease or drugs.
During their time in science the pupils will collect and reflect on experimental data; they analyse, interpret and evaluate. By doing this, we encourage our students to think critically, morally and ethically about science, understand the world that they live in, and to develop skills that will support them for their futures.
Our curriculum creates young people who have a deep understanding of the world around them, are compassionate, can keep themselves safe, hold themselves to a high moral standard, respect and celebrate differences and can engage with big issues in our society.
Biology Milestone Knowledge Trackers
Chemistry KS3 Progression Grid
Chemistry Milestone Knowledge Trackers
Physics Milestone Knowledge Trackers