The Science Department’s goals to our pupils are to provide a firm foundation for secondary-level education and develop vital reasoning skills. The department also aims to instill a respect for nature and an appreciation of natural world. We are also committed to providing effective curriculum delivery and identify and address any teaching/learning challenges in science.
Generally, there are three main challenges of teaching science in primary schools:
- defining science,
- pupils understanding of science and
- finding ways of making science happen in the classroom.
To overcome these challenges, we focus on making science fun for pupils by teaching the subject through visual, hands-on activities that allow them to observe and analyse a particular phenomenon, while at the same time getting some enjoyment out of it. This helps the pupils develop an interest in science.
Accordingly, besides theoretical classroom sessions, our science teaching approach involves the following:
Experiments
Carrying out experiments is an essential aspect of the scientific method – which is an organized way to observe specific phenomena and learn by experimenting with them. As a matter of procedure, we involve our pupils in experiments as a way of making sure that they retain the information about experiment observations and conclusions made after each session.
Projects
We host classroom science fairs where each pupil is given an assignment to create a science project aimed at demonstrating some sort of scientific phenomenon. This way, our pupils get more enthusiastic about science.
Nature
We carry out outdoor lesson sessions with a view to demonstrating scientific natural phenomena pertaining to plants and animals.
Children are naturally curious, which makes science an ideal subject for them to learn. Science allows pupils to explore their world and discover new things. As pointed out above, science is an active subject, containing activities such as experiments. This makes science well-suited to children. Science is therefore an important part of the foundation for education for all children.