​CURRICULUM > SCIENCE

The science curriculum at St Mary Abbots mirrors the National Curriculum in its aims of ensuring all pupils:
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• develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics
• develop understanding of the nature, processes  and methods of science through different types of science enquiries
• are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future.
  
  

​In Key Stage 1 pupils are taught to explore the world around them and to raise their own questions through studying: plants, animals (including humans), everyday materials and seasonal changes.
By the end of the Key Stage, pupils are expected to read and spell scientific vocabulary at a level consistent with their increasing word reading and spelling knowledge at Key Stage 1.

​In Key State 2 pupils are taught to have their scientific view of the world around them greatly broadened through much more detailed areas of study, including: plants, animals, rocks, light, forces and magnets, states of matter, sound, electricity, properties of materials and space.
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