{"id":79,"date":"2018-10-22T19:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2024-08-18T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T11:33:46","slug":"social-studies-and-the-sciences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/curriculum\/social-studies-and-the-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Studies and the Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Our\u00a0Sciences\u00a0programmes and courses cover:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biological systems<br \/>\nForces, electricity and waves<br \/>\nMaterials<br \/>\nPlanet Earth<br \/>\nTopical science<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">Science and its practical application in healthcare and industry is central to our economic future, for our health and wellbeing as individuals and as a society.<\/p>\n<p>Through learning in the Sciences, children develop their interest in, and understanding of, the living, material and physical world.\u00a0 They engage in a wide range of collaborative investigative tasks, which allows them to develop important skills to become creative, inventive and enterprising adults in a world where the skills and knowledge of the sciences are needed across all sector of the economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Our\u00a0Social Studies\u00a0programmes and courses cover:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People, past events and societies<br \/>\nPeople, place and environment<br \/>\nPeople in society, economy and business<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Through Social Studies, children and young people develop their understanding of the world by learning about other people, societies,\u00a0their beliefs and values.<\/p>\n<p>They also develop their understanding of their environment and how it has been shaped. Educational visits may be arranged to places of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the local community and business partners are invited into school to add practical and personal contributions and put learning in the context of real life and work during our Developing the Young Workforce topic.<\/p>\n<p>We also offer opportunities for all pupils to participate in Enterprise projects, such as our Christmas Fayre initiative.\u00a0Enterprise encourages all young people to learn and develop in a way that meets their needs and develops skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Useful Information Relating to the Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/learningteachingandassessment\/curriculumareas\/socialstudies\/principlesandpractice\/index.asp\">Social Studies Principles and Practice Document<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/learningteachingandassessment\/curriculumareas\/sciences\/principlesandpractice\/index.asp\">Sciences Principles and Practice Document<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our\u00a0Sciences\u00a0programmes and courses cover: Biological systems Forces, electricity and waves Materials Planet Earth Topical science Science and its practical application in healthcare and industry is central to our economic future, for our health and wellbeing as individuals and as a society. Through learning in the Sciences, children develop their interest in, and understanding of, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/curriculum\/social-studies-and-the-sciences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Studies and the Sciences<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16128,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5727,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/5727"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}