Programme of Study
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Knowledge, skills and understanding
Electricity
Forces and motion
Light and sound
Knowledge, skills and understanding
Within the realm of teaching, it’s vital that pupils explore scientific enquiry through topics like life processes and organisms, substance characteristics, and natural phenomena.
Health and safety guidelines are always to be observed in this subject. During the initial stage, students engage with, scrutinise, and inquire about organisms, materials, and natural events. They start to collaboratively gather evidence to address questions, relating these to foundational scientific concepts. They assess the validity of evidence and debate the fairness of tests or comparisons. To deepen their understanding of scientific notions, they refer to relevant materials. Ideas are articulated using scientific terminologies, illustrations, graphs, and tables.
- Electricity
Students should learn:- a) about commonplace devices that are powered by electricity
- about basic linear circuits which include batteries, wires, light sources and additional elements [Additional note: for instance, alerting buzzers, small motors]
- the function of a switch in interrupting a circuit.
- Forces and Movement
Students should grasp:- the motion characteristics of common objects [Additional note: like cars accelerating, decelerating, or altering their path
links to other subjects:
- the concept that forces can be categorised into pushes and pulls
- the understanding that motion alterations, whether accelerations, decelerations or directional shifts, have a reason behind them [Additional note: such as a forceful push or pull].
- the motion characteristics of common objects [Additional note: like cars accelerating, decelerating, or altering their path
- Light and Acoustics
It’s essential for students:- Light and dark
- to recognise various sources of light, with the Sun being a primary example
- to understand that darkness is simply a lack of light
- Sound Production and Perception
- to acknowledge the diverse nature and origins of sounds
ICT Opportunity - to understand that sounds emanate from their sources, weakening in intensity over distance, and are perceived once they reach our ears.