“Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” (Corinthians 13:7)
Be the Best we can be, guided by God’s love.
encouraging everyone to achieve their God-given potential,
develop their talents, celebrate their uniqueness,
and rejoice in the joy of belonging to God’s family.
Developing Scientists for the future
Science enables pupils to appreciate the wonder of science, enjoying and sharing successes and challenges, enabling pupils to work in teams, small groups and individually, promoting inclusion and positivity for all. Children can flourish, reach and exceed their potential academically in order to become young, confident scientists of the modern world.
The CVSF science curriculum aims to inspire awe and curiosity about the natural world, helping children see how science touches every aspect of life. It encourages them to explain phenomena, predict outcomes, and analyse causes using their experiences and knowledge. The curriculum is carefully sequenced across biology, chemistry, and physics, and incorporates scientists past and present to show children that they too can make a difference.
Working scientifically skills are embedded in every unit. Children develop observation, comparative investigation, grouping and classification, modelling, and research skills, and learn to collect and interpret data while discussing unusual results.
Each unit focuses on a small question and a big idea, following the National Curriculum and the two-year rolling plan for mixed-age classes. Progression maps and knowledge organisers clearly outline prior learning, learning objectives, key vocabulary, examples, and relevant scientists. Lessons build on previous knowledge, make meaningful cross-subject connections, and provide regular opportunities to review and evaluate understanding.
In EYFS, science is explored through “Understanding the World” rather than formal lessons. Children investigate the natural world, observing animals, plants, seasonal changes, weather, and how things grow or change over time. They explore materials and their properties, experimenting with objects that are hard or soft, heavy or light, rough or smooth, and using sand, water, clay, or playdough to investigate. They also notice everyday phenomena, such as push and pull, floating and sinking, magnetism, and using their senses to explore. In the classroom, science looks like hands-on exploration and play, observing plants or animals, asking questions, making predictions, and recording findings through talking, drawing, or simple charts. Adults support learning by modeling scientific language (e.g., heavy, light, grow, change), encouraging explanations, linking to children’s experiences, and guiding safe experimentation. EYFS science is not about formal experiments, complex reasoning, or abstract concepts; it is about curiosity, observation, and understanding the world through first-hand experience.
How it looks in the classroom
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Exploration and play: water trays, sand, magnets, natural materials
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Observation: watching plants grow, weather changes, animals in the garden
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Asking questions: “What happens if…?” “Why is it like this?”
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Recording findings: drawing, talking, taking photos, simple charts
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Story-based investigations: linking science to stories or topics (“Which materials can the gingerbread man hide under?”)
Click here to view our Science Knowledge Organisers
Click here to view our Science Progression Document
Click here to see how our Science curriculum is adapted for our SEND learners
Please see each class page for this half term's learning in science.
CVSF are also part of the Ogden Trust Partnership which brings together, under the legacy of Oliver Smithies, several local schools. This collaboration promotes the highest expectations within the subject: it provides competition in scientific enquiry and thinking; and it enables the pupils to have high quality additional-curricular activities and peer review - preparing them for the wider world of science.
Congratulations to the 2025 Ogden Trust Science Fair Winner! Norland takes the cup again! We are so proud of you!
