Tag: Science
Earth Day arts and crafts
Year 5 used unwanted plastics from home to put them to better use - art! They worked together to create different Earth's after learning about greenhouse gasses and global warming. Which would you rather live in?
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 22 April 2021
Category: Class of 2015
Earth Day 2021
Class One really enjoyed celebrating Earth Day today. We spent the morning learning all about plastic and how plastics don't biodegrade and can end up in our oceans effecting our wonderfully diverse sea population. We rescued some animals from plastic fishing nets, drew some turtles and the…
Posted by Mrs Eggleston on 22 April 2021
Category: Class of 2019
Tags: Design Technology Science
The dissection of lilies!
Launching our new science topic of life cycles of plants, the children enjoyed dissecting lilies to learn the different parts of a flower.
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 19 April 2021
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Science
Chaos classifying living things in Class 4!
This term, Class 4 have been exploring Living Things and their Habitats; with this, we have done a lot of outdoor learning! We really enjoyed looking at our local environment and discussing how we can help environmental changes (and what makes us a good global citizen). Having looked at how…
Posted by Beth Ings on 30 March 2021
Category: Class of 2016
Tags: Class 3/4 Design Technology Science
Does the liquid affect how the iron nail rusts?
In science, the children have been discovering the properties of iron. As well as discovering it is the main magnetic metal, the children discovered it is a metal which rusts very badly. With our science heads on, we want to know what makes iron rust so badly!
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 29 March 2021
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Science
What's that? A scientific discovery
Class 4 have been working hard all term exploring All living things and their habitats. They have looked at identifying different organisms as well as classifying them according to similarities such as vertebrates and invertebrates.
Today, they took the lesson outside and used the outdoor…
Posted by Beth Ings on 23 March 2021
Category: Class of 2016
Lot's of fun in the provision areas!
Class Two have done some fantastic independent learning in the provision areas to develop their understanding of the learning from our Science, History and DT units. The children have also completed various Maths and English challenges! We have been so impressed with their enthusiasm with each…
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Class 2 English Maths Design Technology Science History
Alien Soup!
Alien Soup has been delivered to Class 5, and we wanted to work out what it was made of. We used the scientific methods we'd learnt about to separate the materials to their original forms. The flour in some children's soup was unfortunately not a reversible change!
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 18 March 2021
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Science
Finding frogspawn
Frogspawn has been spotted in our garden pond! We are going to monitor them growing over the next few months.
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 17 March 2021
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Science
Potato planting
Class 3 spent a wonderful afternoon in the sunshine planting seed potatoes. The potatoes were kindly gifted by ‘Grow your own potatoes’. Class 3 learnt all about plants and what they need to survive last half term and they are really looking forward to using what they have learnt during this…
Category: Class of 2017
Soluble or insoluble?
For our first Monday back, Year 5 picked up properties and materials where we left the topic before lockdown, and we had a very fun experiment with the question - which solutes were soluble or insoluble? Year 5 can you remember which were which? The solutes were: oil, coffee, flour, sugar, baking…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 8 March 2021
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Science
Properties and Materials launch!
Year 5 have begun their science topic on properties and materials, and we have begun with discovering which of these materials are thermal conductors or insulators. The children were all very surprised - Year 5, do you remember which material melted the ice the quickest and is therefore, a thermal…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 4 January 2021
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Science