On our science blog we are hoping to keep you updated with lots of exciting things that our children will be learning in science. Amongst the developments for this term is the completion of our work towards Science Capital certification. Science capital in our school aims to ensure that all of our children are included and offered the same opportunities regardless of background or ability. Children often have a misconception that you have to be ‘clever’ to do science and we want to show that all of our pupils have access to an exciting and engaging curriculum. Our science curriculum aims to motivate, inspire and meets the needs of all pupils. We aim to help them understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future and provide our learners with the foundations for understanding the world.
In addition to carefully planned lessons and lots of hands on learning, we strive to provide enrichment opportunities for our pupils. As school trips have been somewhat limited over the last couple of years (although we very much hope to get back to these), we have provided a number of visits into school, either delivered in person or via Microsoft Teams or Zoom. Last year this saw KS2 engage with Smartstems in Glasgow for a practical workshop, class 5 engage with industry as part of the Children Challenging Industry Project, several classes participating in the activities provided by Bonanza Creatives on Carbon Monoxide and a very popular KS1 visit from the Dog’s Trust.
This week pupils have been completing a ‘science and me’ sheet as part of their work on transition into new classes. This was offered to us by the Centre for Industry, Education, Collaboration (CIEC) who completed staff development training as part of our Science Capital work. This sheet will help teachers to understand what science capital the children already hold so that we can build on this and incorporate their interests. It appears that that we have a wealth of family members who are actively engaged in STEM related industries, STEM careers or personal pursuits relating to STEM! This is amazing and we would love to hear from you if you would like to help us with our enrichment and careers program. You could lead a short assembly or work with different classes in the classroom for example. Please contact the school office if you are available to help at any point as this would be greatly appreciated.
This term, we are hoping to be able to run an after-school STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) club which will be offered to different classes on a rota basis. Look out for more exciting details on this to follow and lots of photos in the upcoming weeks of what we have been up to in classroom!