At Holywell, we use our school vision, Flowing, Strengthening, and Deepening, to guide our science intent:

• Flowing – developing a secure understanding of key scientific knowledge and skills.
• Strengthening – making links between different science units using the key concepts to make these connections. For example, looking at how root hair cells in plants, and villi in the digestive system, have a similar structure related to their similar function of absorbing nutrients.
• Deepening – applying knowledge of science across different STEM Subjects such as DT when incorporating electrical components, or exercise science in PE, to strengthen understanding.

The intent of our curriculum is to provide children with the scientific knowledge and scientific enquiry skills they need to understand the world around them, make connections between different units and apply their developing scientific knowledge across other curriculum areas. Our long-term plan and overview for Science, stating which units are taught in each year group, as well as the National Curriculum for Science can be found below: 

The following websites have lots of additional, useful information about Primary Science: 

• https://pstt.org.uk/    (Primary Science Teaching Trust)
• https://www.stem.org.uk/    (Stem Learning)