Subject Vision

‘Woodfield academy is a place where our day to day mission is to ignite a passion to learn and a desire to succeed in an environment that nurtures all.’

It is a place where learners are taught through our curriculum, to make informed choices and to be responsible for their own actions, through the teaching of four core values; Compassion, Respect, Resilience and Responsibility.

What will the world look like in 2050? It’s a huge question to which we don’t really know the answer to. What we do know is that 65% of pupils could work in a career which has yet to be invented, and science will play a huge role in this. At Woodfield academy we believe there is a scientist in everyone just waiting to make the next big discovery. Teaching science at Woodfield aims to provide the skills to scrutinise information, challenge preconceptions and promote a love for discovering how the world around us works. Over our four-year course the pupils will develop an essential skillset to help them in whichever career they choose, science related or not!

Our curriculum is designed to allow the students to incrementally increase their knowledge, skills and develop independent thinking and learning. Science is taught throughout the school as a series of topics delivered at KS2 by the class teachers and science specialists, and by these science specialists in laboratories at KS3. Practical work is encouraged across all years at Woodfield which gradually increases in complexity in preparation for KS4. Our students will learn a broad range of topics designed to meet the requirements of the national curriculum. From topics as big as space and as small as cells, our pupils will learn about a diverse range of topics to understand how our world works around us and a diverse range of scientists who have helped us change the way we see our planet.

Our subject specialist teachers at Woodfield will develop their skills, nurture their curiosity and develop a love of science. Science helps us understand and explain the world around us. The advances in science and technology are everywhere from revolutionary gene therapy, creating clean energy to putting humans into space. All of the things that enhance our daily lives such as mobile devices, motor vehicles, televisions, medications owe their origins to classroom science. Science is not just men in white coats, through our curriculum the students learn that a future in STEM is more exciting than they thought, and that it could be theirs.

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and it is the torch which illuminates the world”. Louis Pasteur

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Home Learning Homework

Year-5-Spring-Lifecycles-and-Reproduction
Year-5-Spring-Simple-Chemical-Reactions
Year-5-Summer-Earth-Space
Year-5-Summer-Human-Development

Year-6-Spring-Health-And-Heart-Independent-Study
Year-6-Summer-Electricity-And-Circuits-Independant-Study

Year-7-Autumn-Project-Famous-Scientists
Year-7-Spring-Project-Ecosystems-and-Animals
Year-7-Summer-Project-Health-and-Human-Body

Year-8-Autumn-Project-Science-in-the-UK-v2
Year-8-Autumn-Science-LPA
Year-8-Spring-Project-Insects
Year-8-Summer-Project-Exploring-Space
Year-8-Summer-Exploring-Space-Help-Sheet

Science – Primary National Curriculum

Science – Secondary National Curriculum