Science
Science at Wellfield includes uses an approach to learning that engages students physically and cognitively. We provide students with opportunities to expand, change, enhance, and modify the ways in which they view the world. Teachers facilitate an environment that promotes students’ thinking, curiosity, and questioning.
Year 5
Listed below are the topics that our Year 5 students will cover over the course of the year.
Topics Covered
Earth in Space
Forces
Properties and Changes of Materials
Living Things and Their Habitats
Evolution and Inheritance
Animals (including Humans)
Year 6
Listed below are the topics that our Year 6 students will cover over the course of the year.
Topics Covered
Light
Electricity
Animals (including humans)
Living things and their habitats
Evolution and Inheritance
Working in a lab
Year 7
Listed below are the topics that our Year 6 students will cover over the course of the year.
Topics Covered
Cells
Acids and Alkalis
Reproduction
Separating Mixtures
Materials and their Properties
Forces
Electricity
Year 8
Listed below are the topics that our Year 6 students will cover over the course of the year.
Topics Covered
The Periodic Table
Energy Resources
Food and Digestion
Respiration and Photosynthesis
Genes and inheritance
Light and Sound
Transition unit