Science

Science Subject Leader: Liam Keith

Science plays a central role within the curriculum at Wilbarston and is fundamental to our wider trust mission of creating aspirational and knowledge-rich pupils. Pupils are encouraged to be curious, ask questions about what they observe and will be helped to understand scientific ideas and phenomena by using different types of enquiries to answer their own questions.  Our Science Curriculum is ambitious and sequenced coherently so the interplay between substantive knowledge and disciplinary skills builds through the three discrete distinct disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics. As a result of the accumulation of essential knowledge and skills pupils’ science capital and scientific understanding will be substantial and provide a secure foundation that will enable them to succeed in the next stage of their education. The Wilbarston Science curriculum aims to ensure that all Pupils develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics. It also allows them to understand the nature process and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them. In addition, the pupils are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science today and for the future.