“Through a hands-on, enquiry-based curriculum, children will experience the joy of asking questions, having wonderful ideas, exploring and investigating – that is, the joy of finding out about the world around them!” Lady Boswell’s Science Vision (Developed by Staff and Pupils)

The intent of our science curriculum is to provide accessible, inspiring and enriched learning experiences for every child to fully maximise their scientific ability and potential. Pupils will understand the importance of developing both their substantive (facts) and disciplinary (skills) knowledge and be able to make rich and meaningful application to other curriculum areas and to the wider world. Our science curriculum supports and encourages pupils to explore, reason, challenge and solve increasingly sophisticated contextual problems.

We help pupils to understand how science fits into their everyday life and the future. Science informs, and proves essential for a huge range of career areas, namely science, technology, engineering and maths. Pupils have the information and opportunities to understand and be inspired by this; to be the scientists of the future!

Our Science Co-ordinator is Miss Hannah Crawley. Please visit our knowledge organisers page for details about our curriculum. For extra–curricular science and to gain an insight into science at Lady Boswells, please have a look through the Science newsletters and blog posts from our annual STEM weeks. Please do follow our latest ‘science news’ through our weekly Newsletters.

Here at Lady Boswell’s we are passionate about Science!

Our children are involved in scientific investigations in many ways both linked to the curriculum and in extra-curricular projects.

Every year, a child from each class is appointed “Science Ambassador”. Their role, together with our Science Subject Leader, Miss Crawley, is to promote science throughout the School. All children have the opportunity to attend a lunchtime STEM club, science-based assemblies, participate in science competitions, go on Science trips and many other things.

In May 2021, it was confirmed that the School has been awarded the Primary Science Quality Outreach Award. This is the highest possible level of the PSQM award. In order to

achieve this, we not only had to evidence consistency of outstanding science teaching and learning across the School, but also evidence provision of STEM outreach, both locally and nationally – providing high-quality training for STEM education staff/ providers and STEM learning opportunities for pupils across the country.

The PSQM assessor specifically noted the abundance of opportunities that Lady Boswell’s pupil have to not only excel in STEM subject, but develop their science capital.

We are extra ordinarily proud of this achievement and thanks go to all staff at Lady Boswell’s but in particular Miss Johnson, our Science Subject Leader in 2021. In 2024, Miss Crawley, our new Science Subject Leader will be continuing this great work to maintain the PSQM Outreach and recertify the School.