We are scientists!

At Holland Junior School Science is taught through the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) topics. Our Curriculum is a progressive curriculum building on knowledge each year. Every child is a Scientist: children will experience stimulating hands on lessons which excite and inspire them and give them an experience they will never forget. We allow them to develop their scientific knowledge, skills and understanding through a range of experiments to captivate them and develop their science capital. Planning, recording, predicting, testing, interpreting results and proposing further investigations are the essence of science and together with suitable practical “hands on” experience, will be meaningful and enjoyable to the pupils.

Children are fully immersed into their Science topics creating knowledge harvests, taking part in innovative, exciting experiments; developing their enquiry and observation skills. We want children to have a greater understanding of the world in which they live; to recognise problems, and to work towards their solution. We feel that science, amongst other things, should encourage sensitivity towards living things and the environment.

We strive to make the children confident independent learners, to explore values and ideas through Science. We pride ourselves in the broad and balanced teaching of science and the opportunities that we give to help every child flourish in Science across the school. Science is a useful vehicle for stimulating attitudes of curiosity, perseverance, open-mindedness, co-operation, originality and independence in children. In addition, we hope that pupils will develop a respect for evidence.  Science activities should also help to develop a child’s self-discipline and responsibility.  We are conscious of the importance and value of questioning in primary science.  At Holland Junior School we feel questioning should be an essential element of all science activities.

View our Science policy here.