At St Saviour's, we give our children a fully-inclusive Science curriculum which enables them to be scientists, through which they question, explore and discover, resulting in a deeper understanding of the world around them. Through our practical, hands-on curriculum, we foster natural curiosity and equip our children with the necessary science skills to become lifelong learners.

Autumn Term 1 topics and objectives: 

Materials and their Properties

Key skills: 

• Identify an appropriate form of enquiry (fair testing, observation, survey, research, problem solving,
  classification) to answer a question.
• Work in a team to plan and carry out a science enquiry.
• Identify the equipment required to carry out an investigation.
• Identify what observations to make and how to make them using standard units where relevant.
• Recognise and control variables where necessary.
• Take accurate repeat readings of results using scientific equipment.
• Record and present data and results in a range of appropriate graphs; including bar graphs, line
  graphs and scatter graphs.
• Record observations using labelled scientific diagrams

Knowledge and understanding:

• compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness,
  solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
• know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance
  from a solution
• use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through
  filtering, sieving and evaporating
• give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday
  materials, including metals, wood and plastic
• demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes
• explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not
  usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda