At Hanslope Primary School, our curriculum is built from the National Curriculum and sequenced through a two-year rolling programme. This ensures that all pupils experience a broad, balanced and carefully planned curriculum, regardless of whether they begin a phase in Cycle A or Cycle B.
Our curriculum is organised around clear golden threads. These golden threads help pupils make meaningful links across units, subjects and year groups. In Science, pupils revisit important scientific concepts over time so that their knowledge becomes deeper, more connected and more secure.
Across the school, pupils develop both substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge. Substantive knowledge is the key scientific content that pupils learn, such as plants, animals, forces, materials, electricity, light and living things and their habitats. Disciplinary knowledge focuses on how pupils learn to think and work like scientists. This includes asking questions, making observations, carrying out investigations, gathering and analysing evidence, identifying patterns, drawing conclusions and evaluating results.
Vocabulary is carefully planned and explicitly taught so that pupils can talk about Science with increasing accuracy and confidence. Through regular opportunities to revisit and apply scientific language, pupils develop a secure understanding of key concepts and are able to communicate their scientific thinking effectively.
Subject Leader: Mrs Anya Ramsden