Intent Statement

At Medlar with Wesham Primary School, our children are SCIENTISTS!

Our intent is to give every child a broad and balanced Science curriculum which enables them to confidently explore and be curious about what is around them, so that they have a deeper understanding of the world we live in.

We want our children to love science. We want them to have no limits to what their ambitions are and grow up wanting to be astronauts, forensic scientists, toxicologists or microbiologists.

To achieve this, it involves exciting, practical hands on experiences that encourage curiosity and questioning. Our aim is that these stimulating and challenging experiences, build resilience and help every child secure and extend their scientific knowledge and vocabulary, as well as promoting a love and thirst for learning.

We want our children to remember their science lessons in our school, to cherish these memories and embrace the scientific opportunities they are presented with!0

What do we teach?

We teach Science following an ambitious curriculum. CUSP Science is built around the principles of working scientifically and encourages the children to ask questions and think deeply about the world around them.

How do pupils learn?

• Class timetables have been built to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum.  

• Subjects have been blocked in a spaced retrieval model to support catch up and to build the frequency of History and wider curriculum subjects. This maximises learning time. 

An essential component to CUSP lessons is the systematic and coherent approach that we embed focusing on the six phases of a lesson.

"Science is simply the word to describe a method of organising your curiosity."

Tim Minchin