At Ash Grange Primary School, Science provides children with the opportunity to understand the world around them and provides an exciting context to apply many of the other skills and disciplines they learn at school. The science National Curriculum identifies three key areas in which the children should be taught: knowledge and understanding; working scientifically and the application of science.

Our school has a carefully planned science curriculum that ensures children, from reception to year 6, cover these three aims in an accessible, creative and engaging way. We provide the children with a range of opportunities for pupils to actively carry out different types of scientific enquiries and ensure that working scientifically and application of knowledge is embedded into the heart of our science curriculum. 

We aim for all pupils to develop an enquiring mind with a sense of curiosity for the world around them and have the appropriate scientific skills and knowledge to progress further as they move onto secondary school and into an increasingly scientific and technological future.

Science is studied in every year group.  The units studied follow the National Curriculum for KS1 and KS2 which link with their Cornerstones project as closely as possible.  For Nursery and Reception, the areas studied link with the Early Learning Goals, particularly, 'Understanding the World'.

At the beginning of each year, Y1-Y6 are provided with a certificate which outlines the year's learning and is put in the front of the child’s Science book as a reference tool for the year ahead. This enables the child to see how this year’s journey builds on prior learning.

Who's who?

Each year groups studies their own scientist. These scientists are studied as part of topics that are related to their scientific field.

Below are the scientists studied this year.

STEM Week 6th-9th January 2026 

 

We have had a whole school focus this week on STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.  The children have had the opportunity to experience different activities and experiments that have involved them predicting, measuring, creating and thinking with the four subjects at the heart of them! The children have had a lot of fun: making music using water and glass bottles, solving a 'dissolving dilemma' with different types of sugar and carrying out many more exciting experiments! 

We finished the week off with a visitor - Toxic Tim! Scientist Tim gave an amazing and explosive assembly involving air. There was toilet paper blowing across the hall and children hovering on a hover board! He also ran some wonderful workshops for the children to investigate further – making slime and exploring electricity were the main hits! 

The children have been in awe and wonder this week and really enjoyed their experiences.  

 

 

Science Day - Thursday 5th September 2024

We had a great day of being scientists!

We moved around the school and carried out a number of different experiments.

The experiments were:

* Skittles making a rainbow

* Mentos in Coke a cola

* Hairdryer and ping pong balls

* Popping or not of balloons

* Making a rainbow with water

* Dancing Love Hearts

We had lots of fun!

Below is the progression map for each topic of Science across KS1 and KS2 and the development of Working Scientifically skills.