SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE
Network Meeting May 22nd 2014
Welcome
Overview for the afternoon…
-Session 1: Catch-up
-Session 2: Resources
Break
Session 3: Outdoor science
-Session 4: Assessment recap
Dates for diary
Session 1:
Catch-up
Where is
your school
now?
Session 2:
Resources
Each table will make a folder of resources for a phase:
Y1/2 (KS1), Y3/4 (LKS2) or Y5/6 (UKS2)
Task 1:
Search internet websites for current resources for your given phase.
Save to the phase folder on the Shared area.
My Computer/Common (O)/Teachers/Core 4 Science/Resources
Task 2:
Use key vocabulary for each unit in your phase to create 5/6 Bingo
Card templates
Task 3:
Produce a list of useful websites for your phase.
Split into Teacher Resources
and Pupil Resources (e.g. interactive games/ activities)
Session 3:
Outdoor
Science
“The study of biology, geology and the rest
is a living experience, and without fieldwork
it can be (and often is) killed stone dead.”
ASE: ‘Outdoor Science’
• When planned and implemented well, learning outside the
classroom contributed significantly to raising standards
and improving pupils’ personal, social and emotional
development.
• Learning outside the classroom was most successful when it
was an integral element of long-term curriculum planning
and closely linked to classroom activities.
Ofsted: ‘Learning Outside the Classroom’
Outdoor places:
• Middleport pottery are opening on the 1st July. They are the only company in the UK to do
transferring. The factory is full working and children can observe the start to the end of the
pottery making process. 50% is sold in the UK and 50% is sold abroad. It is situated by the
canal.
• Trentham Estate; Lots of Science links- One being the fairies- making fairy puppets linking to
shadows. Flowers- seasonal change.
• Gladstone pottery museum - properties of materials.
• Country trust- Access to farms for free. http://www.countrytrust.org.uk/
Useful Websites:
• Farm to Fork with Tesco http://www.eathappyproject.com/farm-tofork/?gclid=CJDp8bLrur4CFaXHtAodEkAAHQ
• STEMET website- where schools can apply for a Scientist to come into their school free of
charge.
• Good website for experimentshttp://www.britishscienceassociation.org/national-science-engineering-week/download-activitiescompetitions-and-quizzes/activity-packs
• Royal microscope society- loan microscopes free of charge plus free delivery and collection.
Session 4:
Assessment
Recap
DFE DOCUMENT
HTTPS://WWW.GOV.UK/G
OVERNMENT/CONSULTATIO
NS/NEW-NATIONALCURRICULUM-PRIMARYASSESSMENT-ANDACCOUNTABILITY
THE LONG AWAITED REFORMS TO PRIMARY ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY WERE
PUBLISHED 27TH MARCH. HERE ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT:
• CURRENT BALANCE OF TEACHER ASSESSMENT AND TESTING WILL REMAIN.
• WRITING WILL CONTINUE TO BE TEACHER ASSESSED FOR KS2 SATS.
• THE SPELLING, PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR TEST WILL NOT COUNT TOWARDS THE
FLOOR STANDARD; THE WRITING ASSESSMENT WILL.
• KS1 WILL BE EXTERNALLY SET, INTERNALLY MARKED AND THEN MODERATED.
• THE LANGUAGE ON 'SECONDARY READINESS' HAS BEEN TONED DOWN CONSIDERABLY.
• NO DECILE RANKING OF PUPILS.
• THE GOVERNMENT DOES INTEND TO INTRODUCE A RECEPTION BASELINE. THIS WILL BE
TEACHER-ADMINISTERED IN THE FIRST TERM.
has met the new expected standard.
SCIENCE
ASSESSMENT!
https://www.gov.uk/govern
ment/collections/nationalcurriculum-assessments-testframeworks
Thoughts?
Dates for your diary:
 “Assessing Science in the New Curriculum” Twilight
session with Ed Walsh Assessment adviser for
Cornwall specialist in Science
Free Session – Belgrave Hub June 26th 4- 6p.m.
Please book: aolphin@belgrave.stoke.sch.uk
 Assessment Without Levels
Chris Quigley 10th July Stoke
Chris Quigley Education Ltd
[postoffice@chrisquigley.co.uk
Keele Science
Learning
Centre
Questionnaire
Any Questions?
Julie- jriddell@sgfl.org.uk
Luci- lkendrick@belgrave.stoke.sch.uk