“Science and computer science aims to guide all students on a path of scientific and technological discovery. Ensuring they are equipped with the knowledge, understanding and skills to become happy, healthy and high achieving individuals. Faculty staff will support, enrich, and academically challenge students to ensure they achieve and progress. To do this we focus upon.
Knowledge
Teachers plan and deliver a rich sequence of knowledge blocks, based around powerful knowledge statements, that are sequenced over time to ensure students can achieve and are equipped to progress onto further study. Teacher feedforward tasks should deepen students’ knowledge and understanding, responding to areas of development through regular formative assessment, testing both substantive and disciplinary knowledge.
Support
Cross-curricular numeracy and literacy skills will be signposted in lessons (ie. Ensuring consistency of data presentation and interpretation). Students are expected to work hard in every lesson, all the time. Passivity will be challenged, and teachers will provided follow-up questioning to intervene with those not progressing, particularly where key knowledge has “not landed”. Teachers will encourage students to be independent learners and track and monitor additional home learning. Students will be given opportunities for scientific reciprocal reading; they will be exposed to a broad vocabulary; speak on and actively discuss issues and be guided to produce extended pieces of writing.
Skills
Programming, logic and scientific skills-based tasks should be used regularly so that students can apply disciplinary knowledge. Learning intentions are rooted in context. Teachers make use of appropriate opportunities to relate to real-world problems, people and concepts. This includes opportunities to explore SMSC and careers-based content.”
