Our Year 1 Science tutors focus on helping students achieve key outcomes, such as understanding how living things meet their needs, recognizing daily and seasonal changes, and exploring the effects of forces like pushes and pulls on objects. We guide students in making observations, posing questions, and using simple tools to sort and organize data. Our goal is to help students develop their curiosity and ability to describe changes in the world around them using everyday vocabulary and basic scientific concepts.
Biological Sciences:
Students explore how plants and animals meet their needs for air, water, food, and shelter. Our tutors support them in recognizing how different environments, like gardens, parks, and homes, provide for these needs and why caring for living things is important.
Earth and Space Sciences:
Students learn to observe and describe daily and seasonal changes in their environment, understanding how these changes affect everyday life, such as what to wear or when to play outside. Our tutors guide them in making connections between weather patterns and the activities they observe in their surroundings.
Physical Sciences:
Students explore how forces, such as pushes and pulls, affect the movement and shape of objects. Our tutors help them understand how everyday objects like toys, doors, and playground equipment move, encouraging them to make predictions about the effects of these forces.
Science as a Human Endeavour:
Students learn how science is used in their daily lives, from planning activities based on weather predictions to understanding how people care for plants and animals. Our tutors provide examples of how science helps us interact with the world, fostering a sense of curiosity and wonder.
Science Inquiry:
Our tutors encourage students to ask questions, make predictions, and explore the natural world. They guide students in safely conducting simple investigations, recording their observations using drawings, photos, and simple measurements, and sorting data to identify patterns.