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title: "Science"
url: "https://hillsborough.school/our-curriculum/curriculum-overview/science"
school: "Hillsborough Nursery & Primary School"
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# Science

At Hillsborough, we have developed a Science Curriculum that equips children with the knowledge and skills to support a future in Science. The curriculum aims to:

- Develop children’s **belief** in themselves as scientists, by instilling excitement, curiosity and the confidence to question and explore the world around them.
- Give children opportunities and experiences to develop their critical thinking and understanding of the physical world that they **belong** to.
- Ensure children can develop scientific knowledge, conceptual understanding and the skills needed to **become** successful and passionate scientists.

Science is taught on a weekly basis and topics have been carefully linked to other curriculum topics, where possible, to provide an immersive curriculum.

**Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 Curriculum Content**

- Animals including Humans
- Living things and their habitats
- Plants
- Seasonal Changes
- Materials and States of Matter.

**Key Stage 2 Curriculum Content**

Learning continues to be developed from Key Stage 1, and new topics are also introduced:

- Light
- Forces and Magnets
- Electricity
- Sound
- Earth and Space
- Rocks
- Evolution and Inheritance.

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