Our vision: 

At Co-op Academy Nightingale, we deliver a Science curriculum which develops across school and covers the National Curriculum objectives. Our curriculum includes the five Scientific skills of: we think about the world around us, we are curious, we investigate, we are active and we work together. 

Medium Term plans set out the substantive knowledge and disciplinary skills to be taught to pupils. 

In our science lessons, students develop knowledge and understanding of the three areas of science: biology, chemistry and physics. Units build upon previous knowledge and lead to future learning. We aim to take our students learning beyond observation, into active learning.  Throughout Co-op Academy Nightingale we want our children to learn through doing, this is beyond observation and encouraging children to have active participation and work as scientists in their lessons. We will use a wide variety of resources to bring science to life in the classroom. 

We want to create exciting and relevant lessons for the children, having purposeful activities for the children to complete. We will provide them opportunities to lead their own enquiries through TAPs assessments and use scientific language during their lessons. 

Our children will be able to use their books to showcase their findings through different methods such as diagrams, tables and graphs to present their data. These skills will help to consolidate their children's learning, reflect on their investigations and speak about their findings with clarity.

Lesson structure is important to us at Nightingale and we follow our Teaching and Learning handbook to teach the curriculum. We always include: 

• An introduction to the learning objective

• High five 

• Introduction of key vocabulary 

• Oracy starter

• TLAC strategies to be utilised 

• I do, we do, you do approach to activities.