Portfolio
Middleton Park Primary
Gold PSQM
2013 - 2014
Vision
Sharing Science at
MP at the Scottish
Learning festival.
LINK TO READING BUS WEBSITE
Science project carried out
in school available to the
‘world’ through website
(highest downloads on
Reading Bus website)
Pupil led
assembly.
Children
taking a lead
in science.
Impact: Science is developed
and driven forward by staff,
children and parents working
together (not just subject
leader!) and there is a clear
vision for science at
Middleton Park.
SL taken various CPD sessions throughout the
year. Staff have become fully equipped to
report on skills in science in pupil reports
2013-2014.
Various documents
available for staff
to aid with
reporting in
science.
LINK TO
WEBSITE
P3 ASG
science day
Various twilight inputs
given by subject leader
throughout the year
within school and
beyond.
School Development Plan
New science policy created
in collaboration with all
staff and shared with the
school parental
community.
MP’s policy has been
shared across Aberdeen
City as a good example in
order to help and guide
schools to develop their
own.
Impact: Staff
and school
community are
now more
focussed in the
T&L of science.
Science is
valued
Science is valued in the
school grounds and the
wider community. Evidenced
through our Eco garden and
in the community by a ‘pop
up science’ at Asda and
interviewing public on their
experiences of science.
Impact: Children take pride
in the science work they
have completed and get
instant feedback from the
community. Children eat
the produce from our eco
garden.
Knowledge
Staff shared area on
server to share
evidence/products of
science lessons
throughout the school.
Impact: Staff area aware of
science going across the
school therefore can easily
plan cross stage partner
working.
Minutes of science
focused staff inset
and meetings.
A full timetable
of activities
during science
and
engineering
week.
Staff shared area
on school server
to access
documents.
Area for staff to
share
planning/evidence
in science.
CPD
Capacity Building teachers, parents
and volunteers
learning together
Wide range of
CPD for staff
Joint delivery
of Science
with experts
from
University
L&T
approaches
Children are encouraged
to add their thoughts to
an interactive school
science board managed
by the Science
Technicians.
Example of range of
T&L approaches
used in Nursery.
Children share their
learning in science.
Link to short
film
Staff planning
science
experiences
across the
school.
Making use of all staff
across the school
Children are
exposed to a range
of T&L strategies.
Impact:
Children enjoy
their learning
and science
skills and
knowledge
become
embedded.
Children take
Resources ownership
of science
subject.
Impact: Staff have access to
a tidy resource cupboard
and children taking
leadership role.
Resource cupboard
audited this session
and kept tidy,
organised and fully
stocked by the
Science Technicians.
ICT used regularly to
support learning and
teaching.
Pupil
Led
Children take Impact: Children
are leading their
ownership of science
own learning.
subject.
Science
Technicians
Pupils led assembly –
sharing the
Technicians work.
Keeping the Science
resources tidy and
well stocked.
Demonstrating good
science.
Awarding certificates
– Scientist of the
week.
Pupil
Voice
Ritchie P1 – “you know
what we are learning in
science today? We are
learning about
electricity.”
We’ve been amazed at the results in our
science week, our children are so confident when
talking about their science investigations.
We really enjoyed the opportunity to work with our
children on the Home Challenges - it became a family
affair!
‘When I leave school, I want to be a Geologist
- I’ve loved finding out about rocks during
Science at school.’
Skye P4 –
“Science is
really cool!”
City Science
fair
submissions.
‘We love doing Science Experiments at Pupil
Led Assemblies. It gives us a chance to
share our learning with the rest of the school.
Pupil
Voice
"Amazing"
"Really fun"
"love it"
Science Thoughts
When children in Middleton Park are
asked what they think of science
these are some of the responses:
"excellent!"
Assessment
Teachers regularly use a wide range
of assessment strategies including
pupil peer and self assessment. All
teachers peer assess each other.
Regular tracking discussions take
place with SMT.
Evidence of Outreach
Learning about
science in a
variety of
contexts
Learning
about sports
science with
Olympian Lee
McCulloch
Text
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Learning about sports
science in our Movember
City-wide Competition
Invented in Oldmachar
Working with author
Allan Burnett on an
ASG project linking
science and literacy.
WEBLINK TO INVENTION
FILM
Impact: Children receiving enriched
learning experiences. Following the
science work carried out in partnership
with the school Allan Burnett has
become patron of reading at Middleton
Park School.
Allan Burnett, author Invented in Scotland’ has worked with our school over
the last two sessions exploring Science investigations. His writing projects
have inspired our pupils to find out about great inventions and look at the past
to help us explore future inventions.
Allan has said he has been privileged to work with our pupils and commented
on the enthusiasm, positive attitude and creativity of our pupils. In February
2014, he has agreed to be our Patron of Reading and will now work closely
with our school. Allan readily agreed to this role – saying it would be an
honour to have a long term partnership with our school.
“My time as a science tutor for P4 at
Middleton Park has been a greatly
rewarding experience. My role was to
assist with the science curriculum in
place. The main highlight was when the
pupils visited my College for the
planetarium. The classes were on their
best behaviour and interacted and
understood a presentation usually aimed
at higher education level. The children
have impressed me with their ability to
comprehend complex scientific concepts
with ease.”
Feedback from Rudie (our
student) who had a
background in science from
working at Satrosphere.
“I deliver at least 1 workshop for every class at
school each school year and enjoy seeing the
excitement in the kids face & the reaction I get
with the differing workshops from the basic
ones with P1 & P2 to the more Science & Energy
orientated ones with P6 & P7. The children are
always enthusiastic in learning new skills and
being challenged by the differing workshops,
each one needs a differing set of skills and
thought processes and it’s great to see how the
children rise to the challenges and progress
through the workshops.
There are certain skills that the children need to
use and learn during the workshops, from Team
working, effective communication, planning &
leadership, to name a few, which should
hopefully help them going forward in school
and life. It is always great to see children who
give the workshops there full attention and
strive to complete them to the best of their
abilities with learning new things and pushing
themselves to the end goal.”
We have a regular programme
of workshops carried out by a
BP employee. Brian works
with every class for one
session every year.
BP Workshops
Every year P6 visit the
BP offices and look at
how oil and gas are
formed in ‘the Hive’.
Specialist Visitors
Generation
Science
RSPB
Rowett Institute
(helping with
research)
Preview of 3D Scanning
Developed for MRI scan
Aberdeen Uni
Students
Impact: The children are
exposed to a variety of
specialists which enrich
their knowledge,
Understanding and skills
in Science.
Bio Diversity
Museum
Throughout the year we
have had many
workshops carried out by
a variety of specialist
covering all areas of the
Science Curriculum.
Specialist
hedgehog
keeper
Mr Bug
Sharing with the wider community
Showcase at Asda
City science fair
Impact: Science is
valued as a subject
by both children and
their wider family
School organised the
Travelling Museum of
Inventions Bus to spend a
day at Asda (across the
road) to share science
with the community
Utilising whole school
community - janitor
expertise
Whole school homework
challenges to encourage
family learning
MP have used every opportunity to
involve and share their science
learning with the local community
Science open morning
in school
Partnership with Parents
Our Eco
Garden everyone
helps!
Parents
test!
Utilising Parent
Expertise
There is a strong partnership with
parents in the area of science.
This is through supported
homework tasks, workshops
presented and involvement in
science focussed open days.
Parents are even tested on their
science knowledge!
Impact: Children are encouraged
and supported in the home
environment as well as the
school environment.
Open days
Homework Challenges
Sharing with the Wider Community!
Sharing Science at MP at the
Scottish Learning Festival in
Glasgow.
Science at
Middleton Park
is shared
among a wide
WEBLINK TO VIDEO
audience.
We share our learning every week through our Live
Learning video link
WEBLINK TO LIVE LEARNING
Impact: This allows the
children to take pride in
their work and giving it
great purpose.
Rearing oyster catchers in the
school grounds adding to
Scottish data surveys.
Subject leader
produced family
homework for
all Aberdeen
City Schools.
Winning City Knex competition.
We love science so much we made the 3 and a half hour
trip to Edinburgh to go to Dynamic Earth as our end of
year reward!
WE LOVE
SCIENCE!