At Our Lady & St Philomena's Catholic Primary School, we aim to provide our pupils with a science curriculum that inspires them to want to find out more about the world and gives an opportunity for each pupil to be a scientist. We want the pupils to be natural investigators, question the world around them and make discoveries of their own. We want to inspire our pupils to see the impact of science in the real world and how they could contribute to the changes and discoveries of scientists who have come before them.

We aim for our pupils to recognise the impact of science in our daily lives and how people, of all ages, have made important discoveries that have made a substantial difference to how we live as a society. Our curriculum is supported by the Kapow scheme of work. 

"Science has changed our lives and is vital to the world’s future prosperity, and all pupils should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes, and uses of science."

(Department for Education)

Pupil Voice

At Our Lady and St Philomena's we think it is important to listen to the children to help to develop our school. We carried out some interviews with pupils from Year 1 to Year 6 about Science in our school and they had some fantastic feedback for us.

The strongest message throughout the school was that children are really enjoying their Science lessons. They describe their Science lessons as interesting and thought provoking and particularly enjoy getting hands on and carrying out experiments and investigations!

Here is some of their feedback:

"Science explains everything around us and helps us to understand things more - it is the best subject because it involves mystery and discovery, we are the ones who are finding things out." Year 6

"I loved the experiments on Science day like elephant toothpaste and the disappearing candyfloss. We are always discovering new things we didn't know before and having fun doing experiments" Year 2

"Experiments are fun and help me to learn new things, when you do experiments it's exciting but it teaches you lots of new things." Year 4

"I love to discover new things rather than look at pictures when we go to a place or have a close look at the real thing then it is easier to describe." Year 3