Curriculum Aim

The aim of the Science curriculum is to enable CYP to continue, or re-engage with, a love of science learning in a safe and positive environment, for all learning pathways. To recognise all CYP's scientific skills and knowledge gaps and give them every opportunity to succeed and have an appropriately broad and balanced route to recognition of their successes. Our curriculum will help CYP develop their skills of critical thinking and analysing evidence, to see how scientific theories become scientific facts. The course will look at the key science that underpins everyday life and showcase the link between the world around them and the science that explains that world.

Context

A wide range of routes through the curriculum offered at Chapel House means that no matter what your background prior to joining us, there is a route designed to support and increase your scientific knowledge and understanding.

Key Concepts, Skills and Knowledge

The science curriculum addresses key science knowledge through 10 ‘Big Ideas’ that flow throughout science:

• Biology – Organisms, Genes, Ecosystems
• Chemistry – Matter, Reactions, Earth
• Physics – Forces, Energy, Electromagnets, Waves

The disciplinary knowledge of how to conduct scientific experimentation is studied and developed in three areas:

• Scientific theories and ideas
• How to test theories in the laboratory
• Scientific Enquiry to process findings to come to scientific conclusions.

Curriculum Overview

Please see the schemes of work below for the range of routes available to CYP in science.

Each route covers all the key aspects of science in the National Curriculum and is designed to build on existing knowledge. It is designed to revisit key ideas and close any gaps in education that a CYP has. Our curriculum offer gives CYP the opportunity to integrate back into their mainstream setting as and when appropriate.

Schemes of Work