Science: Blog items
Date: 20th Sep 2022 @ 4:58pm
Today the pupils in Year 5 have been learning about acids and alkalis. First of all we used bicarbonate of soda to neutralise an acid (white vinegar). When this happened the liquid started fizzing and bubbles of carbon dioxide were created. This tells us that a chemical reaction took place. Pupils then conducted an experiement to test the pH level of several everyday items, such as cola, vinegar and lemon juice. The pH level tells you if the substance is an acid or an alkali.
Year 6 Investigating how light travels
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 8:56pm
Our lesson today focussed on understanding that light travels in straight lines. To prove this we worked in groups and were given a torch and several pieces of card with holes in them. We experimented with shining the torch through the holes to try to get the beam of light to hit a solid surface. Then we moved one of the pieces of card and this stopped the beam of light from reaching the solid surface. This is because it was blocked and could not get through the opaque material.
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 7:41pm
Today we began to explore our five senses by naming each sense and the part of the body that is to do with each sense. We then focused specifically on our sense of touch. We recapped on the different parts of the hand, including thumb, palm, skin and wrist. As a class, we then discussed what is touch? What happens when we touch something? And is it only our hands that we touch with?
‘We touch with our skin!’
‘Your sense of touch tells you if something is hot or cold.’
We talked about what is safe and unsafe to touch, completed ‘I can feel’ sheets, labeled the properties of these objects, and completed a mystery box feely activity.
Nursery Become Archaeologists!
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 2:37pm
After reading "Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs go to School" nursery immersed themselves in all things dinosaur! We looked for dinosaur bones and fossils and one day we even found some dinosaur eggs! We waited patiently for the babies to hatch and then had great fun making up stories about the dinosaurs together. The children also learnt about shapes by creating shape dinosaurs and worked together to paint some big dinosaurs!
Nursery Take Care of the Outdoors
Date: 13th Sep 2022 @ 8:35pm
We are lucky to have a wonderful outdoor area in nursery and everyone takes pride in keeping the area neat and tidy. The children love caring for the plants and creatures that are living in the garden and work together to keep it looking fabulous. This week the children have been busy picking up the litter that gets blown in. Using the litter pickers is a great way of developing fine motor skills! They have also been sharing the hose pipe and watering cans to keep the plants healthy and building realtionships with each other at the same time. Speaking of relationships, we found a new friend in our garden - a giant slug! We were all fasinated by the little fella and wanted to make sure he didn't go hungry. What else would you feed a slug but the carrots growing in the garden!
Date: 12th Sep 2022 @ 4:47pm
Our science topic this half-term is all about materials and their properties. In this lesson, pupils learned about the 'fire triangle', which explains that there must be fuel, oxygen and heat for combustion to take place. To help children to undertsnt this, we conducted two experiments which showed that oxygen is needed for a candle to burn and that as a candle burns it decreases in mass. The children carried out these experiments using equipment safely, measuring time and mass, and recording results.
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 4:39pm
In Science we started looking at forces and understanding what a force was. We played a game called Furious Forces, where we idenitfied how forces could change an object or make an pbject move. We complied a list of verbs to go along side this such as squash, roll, stretch, throw. We then went on a force hunt and carried out every day activities to identify what forces we use to complete them.
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 4:21pm
Today we began our new science unit of light. We spent the lesson recapping on all the work we did on light when we were in Year 3. This included how light travels, how shadows are formed and key vocabulary, such as opaque, transparent and translucent. We ended the session with a Kahoot quiz to see how much we remembered.
Year 4 discover what solids, liquids and gases are
Date: 6th Sep 2022 @ 4:12pm
Today, after learning about solids, liquids and gases and their properties, we looked at all three states. We discovered that the particles of a solid are closely packed together, the particles of a liquid are close together but able to move and the particles of a gas are spread out all over.
Remember, Solids,liquids and gases........ they all matter!!
Year 2's Final Forest School Fun
Date: 22nd Jul 2022 @ 3:37pm
Yesterday saw our final forest school session of Year 2 before we begin completing our passport in Year 3. This week, we thought about our senses and took a moment to lie on the floor and think about the things we could see, hear, taste, smell and feel- some of us were lucky enough to be joined by a miniature spider. We then looked at different cloud formations and tried to see if we could see any different ones in the sky as well as playing a game of forest school bingo. To end the session, we toasted crumpets on the fire.
Date: 18th Jul 2022 @ 12:21pm
Nursery are taking good care of our beautiful new garden. We have loved watching all the sunflowers grow taller and taller and have made sure that we water our new flowers and plants so the can stay strong and healthy. We have also been exploring our new sensory path and have loved listening to the different sounds the stones make and talking about the differernt textures.
Date: 13th Jul 2022 @ 5:14pm
Today, Year 2 visited the Zoo to consolidate our learning about Animals and their habitats as well as food chains. We have absolutely loved looking at all the different animals including: Giraffes, Tapir's, Otters, Zebras, Elephants and many more. We discussed the different animals diets and whether they were carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. As well as learning lots, we valued the experience of going to the zoo. Well done everyone, you were a credit!
Date: 3rd Jul 2022 @ 6:49pm
Thorughout the school year, Reception have been learning about the different seasons. They have looked at the changes in the weather, the clothes we wear and how nature grows and changes too .
"In Summer the weather is hot but in Winter it is cold" Athena
"All the trees have leaves" Alicja
"In Summer you wear shorts and t shirts and sandals to keep you cool" Mercedes
" You don't need to wear a coat outside" Charlea-Rai
"In Autumn the leaves die and fall off the trees but in Summer they have all grown again- the trees look very green" Charlie
As the seasons change, Reception paint a season tree. Take a look at our Summer tree!
Reception- Life Cycle of a Duck
Date: 26th Jun 2022 @ 11:07pm
Reception have been learning about the life cycle of a duck.
We were very lucky to have our own six duck eggs delivered to us from the farm. These were in an incubator and over the next ten days all the eggs hatched and we had six ducklings which we watched grow and change.
"First they there were six eggs in an incubator" Maya
"An incubator keeps the eggs warm like a mummy duck would if it had a nest" Isobel
"Then the eggs hatched- they cracked open the egg shell with their beaks and they came out" Isaac
"They were wet and needed to dry and keep warm under the heater in the cage" Harrison
"The ducklings were cheeping and running everywhere...when they got bigger we put them in the water...they could swim in the water" Mercedes
Date: 26th Jun 2022 @ 6:45pm
This week in our Science lesson we revisited our Sound topic. We recapped and discusses how soundwaves are made, how we hear sound and how sound travels. We looked at the different part sof the ear and their function and finished off with a quiz. A great lesson with our Year 4's and some fantastic participation and retreival skills from our long term memory!
Date: 25th Jun 2022 @ 8:11pm
This half term in Science, we are consolidating all our learning from Year 2. This week, we discussed how hygiene is important through our Animals including Humans unit. We conducted an experiment to test how effective different cleaning products that we can use on our hands are. We used pepper in a bowl and tested how far the pepper dispersed from our finger when we had washed our hands using: no soap, liquid soap, washing up liquid and hand sanitiser. We learnt the most effective product to use when washing hands is liquid soap and the least effective was no soap. We are enjoying revisiting our learning and deepening our understanding of each unit.
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 6:45pm
This week we began our Science consolidation unit. Our lesson this week began with recapping on the parts of the human body and the five senses. We were challenged to label as many part of the human body as we could on a blank human outline. We then recorded different body parts on our whole class body. We could remember lots! After that we then began to talk about animals. We recapped on the different animal classifications and the features of each. We then completed a number of different tasks, including an animal sort, writing about similarities and differences and labelling key features of animal body parts.
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 4:19pm
As part of our Science consolidation unit we went on a trip to the zoo to investigate an animals diet. We looked at what they ate to keep them healthy and compared this to our diet. We also linked our discussion to out Skeletons and Muscles topic and compared the size and shape of different muscles and bones. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip out and looking at the different animals.
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 12:20pm
Today, Year 6 began their new music journey. We started by recapping on musical terminology so that we could correctly use it to listen and appraise the song 'Heal the Earth'. The song was in the style of Reggae and was about how climate change is affecting our planet more than ever before. The lyrics explained how we can work together to solve some of these issues.
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 7:59am
This half term in Science, we are starting our consolidation unit, recapping everything that we have learnt over the course of the year. This weeks was Electricity. We had a great lesson and has some really good discussions about what we remembered from the start of the year. We spoke about appliances that use electricity, conductors and insulators and labelled the different parts of a circuit. Then we made a range of different circuits using condustors and insulators to put our theories to the test!
Date: 19th Jun 2022 @ 10:11pm
This week Reception had some fluffy surprises- ducklings!
On Monday, a special delivery of six duck eggs in an incubator arrived in our classroom. Over the next 24 hours all six eggs hatched with the children being lucky enough to actually witness this themselves!
When they had dried out they were moved from the incubator to the cage and by Thursday they had already had their first experience of swimming!
The children enjoyed holding them, cleaning their cage out and choosing their names (Bob, Daisy, George, Pepper, Spidey and Nugget)!
"The Incubator keeps the eggs warm" Evelyn.
"They crack the eggs with their beaks" James.
"They hatch ot of the eggs" Charlea- Rai.
A baby duck is a duckling" Loui.
Date: 16th Jun 2022 @ 1:06pm
We were very lucky to have some caterpillars in nursery to support our learning of growth and change. The children loved watching them grow from tiny caterpillars to big fat carterpillars! It was amazing to then see them make a cocoon and emerge as beautful butterflies! We then released them in to our garden - we had they are happy!
Reception-The life cycle of a butterfly.
Date: 26th May 2022 @ 1:28pm
Over the last half term, Reception have been watching their caterpillars grow and change into butterflies.
"First they were caterpillars... they were very little" Athena.
"They ate all the food in the pot" Mercedes.
"They got bigger...they got fat" Alicja.
"They made a cocoon and were hanging upside down in the pot" Isobell
"You have to be careful not to shake the pot because the cocoons will fall" Marleigh
"After a long time they came out of their cocoon and were butterflies!" Charlie
"They were red and black with big wings" Indy.
"We let them go and they flew away" Maja.
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 4:45pm
Year 6 have continued their science unit about the human body by learning about how to stay healthy. We considered the impact of poor diet on our bodies, how important different types of exercise are and learned about the difference between drugs and medicine. We looked at different diary sheets and discussed the lifestyles of two individuals. We then made recommendations. about how they could change their lifestyles to become healthier.
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 4:43pm
Today, Year Two used the Now Press Play equipment to consolidate their knowledge about plants. During the story, we were set a mission to find the best place to plant seeds to ensure they would grow into healthy vegetables. We planted our seeds in a dark cave, a sandy desert and a grassy forest. We found in the cave the plants grew along the floor in search of sunlight just like our cress we grew in the cupboard. The plants in the desert grew but were brown because they didn't have enough water. Finally, our plant in the forest grew into healthy vegetables which we then gave out to the villagers.
