Science

At St Thomas’ we aim to provide pupils with exciting opportunities to develop their scientific enquiries, while encouraging their natural curiosity of the world around them. Through high quality teaching of key knowledge of the scientific topics and through the progression of their ‘working scientifically’ skills, we aim to build on their conceptual understanding, allowing them to ask and answer their own questions.

We encourage pupils to be enquiry based leaners, devising their own experiments, therefore becoming confident and successful young scientist.

Children will be encouraged to work both independently and as a team to investigate and explore as practically as possible throughout each science unit. Whilst our science curriculum covers all aspects of the National Curriculum, it has been structured in a way to allow for meaningful cross-curricular links to be optimised and to enable children to learn in context.

All lessons are carefully scaffolded. This means teachers plan activities that enable the objective to be learned by all children including those who will find the objective challenging, those children who with hard work will secure good progress and those children who can tackle extra stretch and challenge in this subject.

They will participate in a sequence of lessons with a scientific focus, producing a range of evidence including written work.

 Children will be able to ask and answer a range of questions linked to biology, chemistry and physics, using their answers to link to situations in the real world.

Children will be able to recall specific scientific facts about plans and demonstrate an understanding up to their appropriate to age across biology, chemistry and physics.

Children will gain an understanding of all key aspects of chemistry, biology and physics.

Children will be able to demonstrate an understanding of a fair test, to an age-appropriate level, and following key enquiry questions, know the fundamental principles of meaningful science. They will know that Scientists ideas have developed over time and study of important scientists across chemistry, biology and physics.

Science Curriculum Overview

Science Week 2026

As part of science week the children were asked to create their own invention for the If I were an engineer competition. They could invent anything, but generally they thought about things that would help those around them.

We are so pleased to say that this year we had some outstanding entries and have had a record amount make the finals out of all the schools in the South-East of England.