A high-quality science education provides the foundations for understanding the world through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics. Science has changed our lives and is vital to the world’s future prosperity, and all pupils should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science. Through building up a body of key foundational knowledge and concepts, pupils should be encouraged to recognise the power of rational explanation and develop a sense of excitement and curiosity about natural phenomena. They should be encouraged to understand how science can be used to explain what is occurring, predict how things will behave, and analyse causes.
Aims
The national curriculum for science aims to ensure that all pupils

1. Develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics.

2. Develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them.

3. Are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future.

Content students will cover in each year:
Biology
1. Structure and function of living organisms
- Cells and organisation
- The skeletal and muscular systems
- Nutrition and digestion
- Gas exchange systems
- Reproduction
2. Material cycles and energy
- Photosynthesis
- Cellular respiration
3. Interactions and interdependencies
- Relationships in an ecosystem
4. Genetics and evolution
- Inheritance, chromosomes, DNA and genes
Chemistry
1. The particulate nature of matter
2. Atoms, elements and compounds
3. Pure and impure substances
4. Chemical reactions
5. Energetics
6. The Periodic Table
7. Materials
8. Earth and atmosphere
Physics
1. Energy
- Calculation of fuel uses and costs in the domestic context
- Energy changes and transfers
- Changes in systems
2. Motion and forces
- Describing motion
- Forces
- Pressure in fluids
- Balanced forces
- Forces and motion
3. Waves
- Observed waves
- Sound waves
- Energy and waves
- Light waves
4. Electricity and electromagnetism - Current electricity
- Static electricity
- Magnetism
5. Matter
- Physical changes
- Particle model
- Energy in matter
- Space physics