Becoming a Scientist at DCPS

 Our aim is that children who leave our school in Year 6 will be able:

• explore and talk about scientific ideas asking their own questions and suggesting their own lines of enquiry
• recognise how scientific ideas can be used to help understand and predict how the world operates, including how ideas have changed and developed over time
• use different types of scientific enquiry to find things out and draw conclusions based on their observations and research
• confidently use every day scientific vocabulary to discuss and share their ideas in a clear way

All pupils are taught essential knowledge, methods, processes and uses of Science.  The children gain an understanding of how Science can be used to explain what is occurring, predict how things will behave, and analyse causes to then go on to form their own ideas.

Topics studied are:

KS1- Animals including Humans, Plants, Everyday Materials, Seasonal changes, Living things and their Habitats.

Year 3- Animals including Humans, Plants, Rocks, Light, Forces and Magnets

Year 4- Animals including Humans, Living things and their Habitats, States of Matter, Sound, Electricity

Year 5- Animals including Humans, Living things and their Habitats, Properties and changes of Materials, Earth and Space, Forces.

Year 6- Animals including Humans, Living things and their Habitats, Evolution and Inheritance, Light, Electricity.