SCIENCE

Our Key Stage 2 Science curriculum provides the foundations for understanding the world through the specific disciplines of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Our students are taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of Science. They build upon their learning in Key Stage 1 and continue to develop a sense of excitement and curiosity about natural phenomena. The students are encouraged to understand how Science can be used to explain what is occurring, to predict how things will behave, and to analyse causes. Science is integrated into our inquiry-based Discovery units, through which the children not only develop their knowledge and understanding but also develop scientific inquiry skills in preparation for their transition to Secondary School.

DBIS students are given regular opportunities to explore and talk about their ideas, ask their own questions about scientific phenomena and analyse functions, relationships and interactions systematically. Throughout Key Stage 2, our students encounter numerous abstract ideas and begin to recognise how these ideas help them to understand and predict how the world operates, whilst recognising that scientific ideas change and develop over time. They explore appropriate ways to answer Science questions using different types of scientific inquiry, including observing changes over different periods of time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out comparative and fair tests and finding things out using a wide range of secondary sources of information. They then draw conclusions based on their data and observations, using evidence to justify their ideas and their scientific knowledge and understanding to explain their findings.