Edexcel International Primary Curriculum Science Past Papers

Pearson Edexcel International Primary Curriculum Science (specification JSC11) introduces primary-age students to the three strands of science — biology, chemistry, and physics — alongside the skills of scientific enquiry. The qualification provides an internationally benchmarked measure of primary science attainment for students in Years 3–6 at international schools. Biology covers the living world: the characteristics of living things (movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrition — commonly remembered as MRSGREN), classification of animals and plants, habitats and food chains, the human body (the role of major organs, the skeleton and muscles, nutrition and healthy eating, reproduction at a basic level), plant biology (parts of a plant, photosynthesis at a simple level, the life cycle of flowering plants), and the water cycle. Chemistry explores materials and their properties: classifying materials as natural or manufactured, solid/liquid/gas and changes of state (melting, boiling, evaporation, condensation, freezing), soluble and insoluble materials, mixing and separation methods (filtering, evaporating, sieving), and reversible versus irreversible changes. Students are introduced to the idea that materials are made of very small particles and that the arrangement of particles explains the properties of solids, liquids, and gases at a conceptual level. Physics covers forces (gravity, friction, air resistance, water resistance, magnetic forces), light (reflection, shadows, how we see), sound (vibrations, pitch, volume), electricity (circuits, conductors, insulators), and Earth and space (the solar system, day and night, seasons). Scientific Enquiry develops the skills of planning a fair test, identifying variables, making predictions, recording results, and drawing conclusions — the process of doing science, not just knowing facts.