Science

Aims

The science curriculum at Eastwick meets the requirements of the National Curriculum and is in accordance with the school’s Curriculum Intent. Therefore, it prepares children to be ‘Ready for Everything’ in their futures in terms of: 

• Success in the next stage of their education and beyond: by developing scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics
• their ability to navigate life’s personal Challenge: by equipping children with an understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to ask and answer scientific questions about the world around them; by developing collaboration in scientific enquiry; by developing resilience through knowing that failure and trying again is integral and necessary to the scientific process
• understanding their place in communities at global, national and local levels and seize the Opportunity of the future: by equipping them with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future of the human race and planet Earth