Statement of Intent
At St Joseph’s School, our aim is to ensure that we deliver a high-quality Science curriculum embedded in excellent Catholic education, which provides the foundations for understanding the world through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics.
We aim to develop an enthusiasm for Science and a questioning approach that allows children to have a greater understanding, appreciation and sense of wonder for the world around them. We aim to achieve this through the acquisition of substantive and disciplinary knowledge to help them to think scientifically, to gain an understanding of scientific processes and an understanding of the uses and implications of Science, today and for the future.
We want our children to be inquisitive about the world: to ask questions and to begin to reason why things happen so whilst acquiring knowledge is important, we also highly value the teaching of scientific skills and different enquiry types that are embedded in each unit of Science. Through the modelling and teaching of disciplinary knowledge, we aim to equip our children to be able to answer their own scientific enquires and to reflect on what they have found out. Our aim is to give children scientific knowledge that they can apply to different situations and to make them life-long learners with an enthusiasm for Science.
