News
Professional Development - Courses
Little Scientists in KS1/Foundation Phase
Course Code:
SCP79
Location and data:
19.06.08 CAB Ferryside
30.06.08 CAB Felinfach
24.09.08 CAB Ferryside
Understanding the New National Curriculum for Science at KS2
Course code :
SCP80
Venue and Date:
10.06.08 Ferryside REC
11.06.08 Ferryside REC
16.06.08 Felinfach PEC
For further details please see ‘Your Professional Development’ CD 2008-2009
WALES CURRICULUM 2008
The main changes to the current (2000) Order at Key Stage 2 are:
The curriculum has been reviewed and updated to reflect life in the twenty-first century..gif)
The Range is now taught through the headings:
- Independence of Organisms
- The Sustainable Earth
- How Things Work
Less detail has been provided within the range about types of activity and contexts for learning.
Emphasis has been placed on developing skills via the range topics.
Skills have been divided into four areas of development:
- Communication
- Planning
- Developing
- Reflecting
Children should be given opportunities to carry out different types of enquiry, such as:
- Pattern seeking
- Exploring
- Classifying and identifying
- Making things
- Fair testing
- Using and applying models
Curriculum content changes
Statements added to the range Independence of Organisms:
- The names and functions of the human’s main organs
- How humans affect the local environment, e.g. litter, water, pollution, noise pollution and
- Understand that exercise is needed for human good health.
Statements added to the range The Sustainable Earth:
- How are some materials formed or produced?
- A consideration of what waste is and what happens to local waste that can be recycled and that which cannot be recycled.
- The daily annual movements of the earth and their effect on day and year length.
Growth, Reproduction and movement are no longer a part of the curriculum.
Level descriptions have been revised to clarify progression and are focused on developing skills.