Our Vision

“Hope: building for a brighter future”

The study of science provides a vital tool for analysing and understanding the world around us. Our children are growing up in a world where they will need to be able to critically evaluate and ask and answer questions. Our science is enquiry-focussed and lessons will allow children to develop the key skills of questioning, observing, analysing, concluding and evaluating. All key subject knowledge is rigorously taught, but children are encouraged to ask and answer their own questions too.

Our science lessons are very much focussed on learning through doing, and key subject knowledge is taught, repeated and reinforced in a practical, ‘hands-on’ way wherever possible.

We seek to foster a spirit of excitement and curiosity about the world around us. The news is full of gloomy predictions about our planet’s future but we want our children to see the future with hope; and to see what science can allow us to do, to overcome the challenges that lie ahead.

Curriculum Aims

At North Star, we aim to:

• Equip all our children with the fundamental skills of enquiry and critical thinking that are needed to be successful throughout their lives, including:
• Develop children’s ability to explore, ask questions, plan how to answer those questions, and to make sense of their observations – including being able to answer the questions that they initially asked.
• Equip the children with all the subject knowledge they need to be successful, first at High school and then into the rest of their lives.
• Ensure our children have all the key knowledge they will need for any future sciencebased career.
• Ignite a passion for STEM based subjects, that at least some will carry with them through the rest of their lives and hopefully guide their choice of careers.
• Ensure that all subject knowledge is covered well, regardless of the class split, and that ‘new’ knowledge builds on that previously learnt.
• Prioritise quality first teaching for all, adapting curriculum content and lessons plans as necessary to ensure progress and fulfilment for all children.
• Promote a love of science