Our Curriculum
Primary Curriculum
Science
Threshold Concepts
Threshold Concepts
Working scientifically
Work scientifically
This concept involves learning the methodologies of the discipline of science.
Biology
Understand plants
This concept involves becoming familiar with different types of plants, their structure and reproduction.
Understand animals and humans
This concept involves becoming familiar with different types of animals, humans and the life processes they share.
Investigate living things
This concept involves becoming familiar with a wider range of living things, including insects and understanding life processes.
Understand evolution and inheritance
This concept involves understanding that organisms come into existence, adapt, change and evolve and become extinct.
Chemistry
Investigate materials
This concept involves becoming familiar with a range of materials, their properties, uses and how they may be altered or changed.
Physics
Understand movement, forces and magnets
This concept involves understanding what causes motion.
Understand the Earth’s movement in space
This concept involves understanding what causes seasonal changes, day and night.
Investigate light and seeing
This concept involves understanding how light and reflection affect sight.
Investigate sound and hearing
This concept involves understanding how sound is produced, how it travels and how it is heard.
Understand electrical circuits
This concept involves understanding circuits and their role in electrical applications.
The Frides Way
Threshold Concepts
Opportunities
Milestones
