1. Science in the Primary School Thursday 12th November

2. Mission Statement To Inspire, Challenge and Nurture for Excellence Our Guiding Principles: ✓ to sustain our reputation for academic excellence by providing a rigorous and balanced international curriculum. ✓ to enable our students to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right. ✓ to foster leadership abilities in our students within a friendly and caring community that inspires, challenges and reflects our international ethos. ✓ to enable our students to develop a strong sense of belonging, respect and social responsibility in order to create a better more peaceful world. ✓ to be internationally recognized for our commitment to education for international understanding and partnerships.

3.  What do we teach and when?  How do we teach Science?  How do we assess?  Have we got it covered?  How do we get our children ready for secondary science?  What can parents do to support science learning? Overview

4. What makes a scientist?  Curiosity- don’t take everything at face value  Resilience – Thomas Edison’s 1000 attempts to make a lightbulb  Asking questions – `we learn from asking rather than answering’  Learning from mistakes – evaluating  Creativity – no that’s not just for the artists! Neil Atkin, 2015

5. How do we teach Science?  Teaching through units in IPC.  Science can be the ‘driver’ or ‘enhancer’.  Science is not taught at a specific time each week as with other curricula.  Skills and knowledge are taught through context based learning.  Assessment strategies.

6. Learning Targets

7. Investigations  Methods, structure and formats.  Terminology or vocabulary.  In line with expectations in Secondary.  Linking with other classes in Primary and Secondary to enhance learning.

8. Investigations Ways to investigate:  Modelling  Pattern Seeking  Research  Challenges  Fair Testing  Identifying and Classifying  Observations

9. Investigations - Planning and Structure Structure consistent throughout primary, with a progressive format being used. Research Question Prediction/ Hypothesis Evaluation Results Variables Conclusion Fair Test

10. Investigations Structure - is consistent throughout primary, with a progressive format being used. 1.Research Question 2.Prediction/Hypothesis 3.Variables 4.Fair test 5.Results 6.Conclusion 7.Evaluation New Vocabulary introduced.

11. How topics lead to investigations Milepost 1 - How are you? Can we drink all water? We need water to stay alive and healthy. How can we clean water? Which material makes the best filter? Can we drink our ‘clean’ water?

12. Build your own water filter? Can you create your own water filter? What can we use to do this?

13. Milepost 1 - Seeing the light How can we measure our shadows? Exploring and investigating shadows. Measure shadows in the morning. What happens to our shadows throughout the day? Why?

14. Milepost 2 - Bright Sparks Children experiment with circuits, changing components to see the effects. Investigate conductivity - testing materials using their circuits. Children experiment with circuits, changing components to see the effects.

15. Milepost 3 - Bake it! Changing and separating materials Explore the ingredients used in making bread. What happened when sugar was mixed with yeast? What happened when the warm water was added?. Sugar Salt Flour Yeast. Think about the starter activity - baking bread... What happens when these are mixed with water? How can we investigate this? How can we make it a fair test? What will the variables be?

16. Milepost 3 - Fairgrounds Investigating forces. What will happen to the water in a bucket when I swing it around? Can you think of other everyday situations that involve rotational forces? Draw and label diagrams to record these. Show the direction and strength of forces using different sized arrows.

17. Assessment in Science Both children and teachers use our IPC Skills Ladders to assess the children’s skills in Science.

18. Recording and sharing learning in Science ✓ IPC Books ✓ Skills Ladders ✓ Photographs ✓ Classroom displays ✓ Linking with other classes ✓ Exit points ✓ Class Assemblies

19. How can parents support science learning?  See science all around and encourage children to ask questions and explore.  Discuss science.  Do science together - eg.cooking, growing things.  Explore surroundings.  Most of all...

20. Let them think!

21. and make mistakes. Many important scientific discoveries are made through making mistakes.

22. Thank you. Any questions?  Volunteer and visit often  Feel free to make suggestions  Leave feedback on today’s workshop here.here  Queries or questions? Email: lynn_fitzpatrick@bsj.sch.id karl_prudhoe@bsj.sch.id