Middleton Park PrimaryGold PSQM2013 - 2014

Portfolio

VisionLINK TO READING BUS WEBSITE

Science project carried out in school available to the ‘world’ through

website (highest downloads on Reading

Bus website)

Sharing Science at MP at the Scottish Learning festival.

396 Views!!

In 8

countries!!

LINK TO WEBSITE

P3 ASG science

day

Various twilight inputs given by subject leader throughout the

year within school and beyond.

Pupil led assembly. Children taking a lead in

science.

Impact: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.

Various documents

available for staff to aid with

reporting in science.

SL taken various CPD sessions throughout the year. Staff have

become fully equipped to report on skills in science in pupil reports 2013-

2014.

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: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: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 school

server to access

documents.

Area for staff to share

planning/evidence in science.

Staff shared area on server to share evidence/products of science lessons

throughout the school.Impact: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.

CPD

Wide range of CPD for staff

Joint delivery of Science with experts from University

Capacity Building - teachers, parents and volunteers learning together

L & T approache

sExample 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.

Children are encouraged to add

their thoughts to an interactive school

science board managed by the

Science Technicians.

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.

Resources

ICT used regularly to support

learning and teaching.

Resource cupboard audited this session and

kept tidy, organised and

fully stocked by the Science Technicians.

Children take ownership of

science subject.

Impact:Impact: Staff have access to a tidy resource cupboard and children taking leadership role.

Pupil Led

Children take ownership of

science subject.

Science Technicians

Impact: Impact: Children are leading their own learning.

Pupils led assembly – sharing

the Technicians work.

Keeping the Science resources

tidy and well stocked.

Awarding certificates –

Scientist of the week.

Demonstrating good science.

Pupil Voice

City Science fair

submissions.

‘When I leave school, I want to be a Geologist - I’ve loved finding out about rocks during Science at school.’

‘We love doing Science Experiments at Pupil Led Assemblies. It gives us a chance to share our learning with the rest of the school.

ParentsParents

We’ve been amazed at the results in ourscience 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!Ritchie P1 Ritchie P1 – “you

know what we are learning in science

today? We are learning about

electricity.”

Skye P4Skye P4 – “Science is really cool!”

Science ThoughtsScience Thoughts"Cool"

"Cool"

"Amazing""Amazing"

"Really fun""Really fun"

"lots of experiments"

"lots of experiments"

"interesting""interesting"

"scary because

"scary because you dont know

you dont knowwhat’s going to

what’s going to happen!"happen!"

"Fandabbydosie!!""Fandabbydosie!!"

"messy!

"messy! - and you

- and you don’tdon’t get into

get into trouble!"

trouble!"

"my new"my newfavourite

favouritesubject"subject"

"love it""love it"

"brilliant"

"brilliant""excellent!""excellent!"

When children in Middleton Park are asked what they think of science these are

some of the responses:

Pupil Voice

AssessmentTeachers 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

WEBLINK TO MOVEMBER

Learning about sports science

with Olympian

Lee McCulloch

Learning about sports science in our

Movember City-wide Competition

WE WON

Learning about science in a variety of

contexts

Text

Invented in OldmacharWEBLINK TO INVENTION FILM

Working with author Allan

Burnett on an ASG project linking

science and literacy.

Impact: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.

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’.

“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.”

Specialist Visitors

Throughout the year we have had many workshops carried out by a variety of specialist covering all areas of the Science Curriculum.

Aberdeen Uni Aberdeen Uni StudentsStudents

Preview of 3D Scanning Preview of 3D Scanning Developed for MRI scanDeveloped for MRI scan

Generation Generation ScienceScience

Rowett Rowett Institute Institute

(helping with (helping with research)research)

RSPBRSPB

Bio Diversity Bio Diversity Museum Museum

Impact:Impact: The children are exposed to a

variety of specialists which enrich their

knowledge, Understanding and

skills in Science.

Mr BugMr Bug

SpecialisSpecialist t

hedgehohedgehog g

keeperkeeper

Sharing with the wider community

School organised the Travelling Museum of

Inventions Bus to spend a day at Asda (across the road) to share science with

the community

Whole school homework Whole school homework challenges to encourage challenges to encourage

family learningfamily learningCity science fairCity science fair

Showcase at AsdaShowcase at Asda

Utilising whole Utilising whole school community - school community -

janitor expertisejanitor expertise

MP have used every opportunity to involve and

share their science learning with the local community

Impact: Impact: Science is valued as a

subject by both children and their

wider family

Science open morningScience open morningin schoolin school

Partnership with Parents

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: Impact: Children are encouraged and supported in the home environment as

well as the school environment.

Our Eco Our Eco Garden - Garden - everyone everyone

helps!helps!

Open daysOpen days

Parents Parents test!test!

Utilising Utilising Parent Parent

ExpertiseExpertise

Homework ChallengesHomework Challenges

WEBLINK TO VIDEO

Sharing with the Wider Community!

WEBLINK TO LIVE LEARNING

Science at Middleton

Park is shared

among a wide

audience.

Rearing oyster catchers in the school grounds adding to Scottish data surveys.

Sharing Science at MP at the Scottish Learning Festival in Glasgow.

Winning City Knex competition.

Subject leader

produced family

homework for all Aberdeen

City Schools.

Impact:Impact: This allows the children to take

pride in their work and giving it great

purpose.

We share our learning every week through our Live Learning video link

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 WE LOVE SCIENCE!SCIENCE!