At Captain Cook Primary, we recognise the importance of Science in every aspect of daily life and acknowledge its importance in many careers of the future.  We are proud to have designed a high quality, bespoke Science curriculum that provides children with the foundations they need to understand how things happen and why things work.  We aim to instil a love of Science and aim to deliver fun and stimulating science lessons that nurture children’s natural curiosity and encourage respect for living organisms and the physical environment.  Enquiry is at the centre of our teaching and we acknowledge that if we are to create the scientists of the future our children need to develop scientific skills alongside knowledge acquisition and children are encouraged to make observations, plan and complete investigations as they progress through school.  We offer a hands-on, enquiry-based curriculum that allows children to progressively develop the skills associated with Science as a process of enquiry including promoting questioning, challenging ideas, working practically, investigating, evaluating, making choices and using scientific vocabulary.

Through our curriculum we intend for children to develop an understanding of how important and relevant Science is in their lives, both now and in the future and utilise a range of Careers Days, Science Days and STEM activities to promote this.

By the end of their time in primary school we want our children to have a wealth of scientific knowledge and understanding.  To understand what it means to work scientifically, to understand a range of concepts and be able to articulate why they things happen and how things work.