Vision Statement

Wickhambreaux CEP’s vision for Science teaching and learning is integral to our approach to learning across the curriculum and stated aims for learning. The Science policy will set out how we implement and provide our children with a Science curriculum fit for the 21st century, through the enhancement of skills and experiences that will lead to building learning in every child’s future. Our curriculum map for science sets out how it will enable our pupils, whenever possible from first‐  hand experience, explore and discover the world around them; resulting in a deep knowledge and understanding on which to build future learning. Our innovative approach involves exciting, practical hands‐ on experimentation and experience that actively encourages curiosity, questioning and a problem‐ solving approach all necessary for scientific enquiry. Our aim in providing these stimulating and challenging tasks, is to secure and extend our pupils’ scientific knowledge and vocabulary. We believe that the opportunities and experiences, set out in this policy, will ensure, and enable our children to become confident learners, who will then explore their environment by posing insightful and inquisitive questions, about what they observe in the world around them. Science places no limits on the acquisition of knowledge, or the possibility for discovery, we therefore do not believe in putting a ceiling on our children’s learning or limiting their creativity by outlining a too prescriptive programme of study for Wickhambreaux Children. Using the National Curriculum as its starting point, an outline (see curriculum map) of what will be taught, relevant to age and stage, will be set out to demonstrate how our pupils will be encouraged to question and use their imagination to extend their knowledge, in preparation for their next stage of learning and for their future lives.