Science at FPJS

At FPJS we value Science. Science changes lives and is vital to the world’s future. Science is a fascinating and exciting topic that should inspire children’s curiosity about natural phenomena in the world around us and humankind's impact on this. We seek to motivate pupils to ask questions, develop a passion for exploring ideas and a desire to investigate. Through building up a body of key foundational knowledge and concepts they try to solve challenging problems and learn from their mistakes, self-reflecting to improve their understanding.  They should be encouraged to understand how science can be used to explain what is occurring, predict how things will behave, and analyse causes and through this develop their teamwork, collaboration and respect for the world.

“Science is simply the word we use to describe a method to organize our curiosity.” Tim Minchin

How we teach science at FPJS

We use Big Questions to test how accurately the children acquire the key sticky knowledge and/or skills appropriate to the topic. These questions are answered in a variety of ways including through verbal responses, short written tasks and more creative work. Cross-curricular links are very important to support children with their learning across the curriculum. Longer writing tasks linked to science are completed as part of children's English work and are recorded in their English books.

Children understand the question at the start of the topic so they can link their learning to the bigger picture.

Every science lesson taught at FPJS allows children to acquire scientific knowledge related to their topic as well as new skills in order to work scientifically.