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Our aim is to encourage the girls to explore and marvel at the world around them, while at the same time learning scientific skills. They learn to observe and describe, to measure and record, to analyse data and draw conclusions from it, to solve problems and to design their own experiments.
Some year groups go out on science-based trips and from time to time 'Science' comes to the school in the form of an educational visit by, for instance, a planetarium.
Practical activities form a large part of our Science lessons and we are fortunate to have the grounds of the school to use where this is appropriate.
Thinking skills are considered very important and we use the 'Let's Think' scheme in Year 1 and the 'Let's Think through Science' scheme in Key Stage 2. The 'Smart Science' activities are also used in Years 5 and 6.
Girls generally work in groups for both practical and discussion activities and then the recording of experimental work is done on an individual basis.
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