Queniborough
Primary School
Our curriculum leader for Science is Mrs Sharpe.
In Spring Term 2024, we introduced the CUSP curriculum for science.
CUSP Science pays close attention to guidance provided by the National Curriculum sequence and content. It is infused with evidence-led practice and enriched with retrieval studies to ensure long-term retention of foundational knowledge.
The foundations of CUSP science are cemented in the EYFS through learning within the Natural World, and People, Culture and Communities. CUSP’s ambitious interpretation of the National Curriculum places knowledge, vocabulary, working and thinking scientifically at the heart of the principles, structure and practice. CUSP Science precisely follows the units outlined in the National Curriculum.
Through studying CUSP science, pupils become ‘a little more expert’ as they progress through the curriculum, accumulating, connecting and making sense of the rich substantive and disciplinary knowledge.
Our Science Policy follows the National Curriculum 2014 guidelines and aims to ensure that all pupils:
• Develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics;
• Develop an understanding of the nature, process, and methods of Science through different types of science inquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them;
• Are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and in the future.
All children will develop inquisitive minds and demonstrate a need to question and think critically. Our approach to science teaching allows for a hands-on, thought-provoking curriculum, through different teaching strategies, which will transfer and be used throughout the whole curriculum.
In 2019 we were awarded the Primary Science Quality Mark. PSQM transforms primary schools and communities – growing confident leaders and teachers of science, building children’s attainment and aspiration in science, and shaping the culture of a primary school into a place where every child, teacher and family thinks ‘science is for them’.
