4-7 Years
- Biology: Trees, teeth and eating, helping plants grow well
- Physics: Magnets and springs, light and shadow
- Chemistry: Rocks and soils
St Faith's Prep
Science
My aim for our Science curriculum is to stimulate curiosity, interest and enjoyment through a practical approach that sees science within a wider body of knowledge and skills.
I want to enthuse pupils and encourage them to work both independently and as part of a team. We cover the National Curriculum and extended it considerably, with our own syllabus organised into physics, chemistry and biology topics to give our pupils an understanding of the three sciences.
We are also part of the Royal Society Schools Network and encourage our pupils to recognise the applications of science in the world around them and the implications of science for the individual and community.
Within each year group, the Science curriculum is divided into three-week Physics, Chemistry and Biology topics. Investigation skills are incorporated in every lesson and pupils are nurtured in the skill of applying their understanding to solve practical and theoretical problems.
Here’s a taste of what happens in each year:
Year 3
Year 4
- Biology: Moving and Growing, habitats
- Physics: Electricity and Circuits, sound, keeping warm, friction and forces
- Chemistry: Solids, liquids and gases
Year 5
- Skills: Investigating Science
- Physics: Forces, Solar System, energy
- Biology: Variation, classification & environment, microbes, life processes
- Chemistry: Acids and alkalis, matter
Year 6
- Chemistry: Separating mixtures, elements, simple chemical reactions
- Physics: Seeing and hearing, electric circuits
- Biology: Cells, organ systems & health, Diet, teeth and bones, reproduction
Year 7
- Biology: Diet and digestion, respiration, ecology
- Physics: Matter, Electricity and electromagnets, heating and cooling
- Chemistry: Compounds and mixtures, burning
Year 8
- Chemistry: Reactivity, reaction of metals
- Biology: Photosynthesis, microbes and disease, variation and genetics
- Physics: Waves: Light, Waves: Sound, pressure and moments, forces, speed and gravity
Alison Price
Head of Science