Science

At Harris Primary Academy Kent House, science is taught through observing, investigating, experimenting, questioning and exploring. Children's scientific skills are developed through a variety of knowledge and enquiry based lessons. Each science topic is taken from the new National Curriculum and taught alongside our Harris Federation curriculum so that each science unit concludes with an enquiry linked to the topic.

At Kent House, we want our children to be involved in an engaging curriculum that will build, develop and promote their knowledge. Science is about improving on the investigative and experimenting skills necessary to challenge ideas and theories.

Children need to be armed with the knowledge on which to build; the knowledge is a platform to springboard their own point of inquiry. We want our pupils not merely to be able to repeat facts and memorised knowledge. We want them to be driven on to question, ‘What next..?’ or ‘What if...?’ Science is also a practical way of finding reliable answers to questions we may ask about the world around us through experimental testing of ideas. Science in our school is about developing children’s ideas through their own curiosity and questioning.