Science: Blog items
Reception A letter from the giant in the sky...
Date: 5th May 2022 @ 9:21am
This week Reception had a very special letter delivered to our classroom. It was a letter for the giant in the sky who asked us to plant our very own magic beans outside in the garden. Together we discussed what we needed to do and thing we would need.
"We need a plant pot to put it in" Isaac
"You have to water it every day so that it grows bigger and bigger" Isobelle
"Make sure it is somewhere sunny" Jessica
"I'm going to climb up my beanstalk and go and see the giant" Charlie
Whose we had planted our beans the children wrote some fantastic instructions back in the classroom.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 8:22pm
This week nursery have continued to find out about growth and change. We have been keeping a close eye on our tiny caterpillars and they're not so tiny anymore! Infact, they're getting rather big! As well as watching the caterpillars grow, the children have also been planting seeds. We started with cress seeds and will be moving on to sunflower seeds later in the week! We have been talking about looking after the seeds and that we have to make sure we keep them watered to help them grow. We have also been using different types of bricks to build the tallest bean stalk and practising matching numeral and quantity using seeds.
Year 2 Investigating how plants grow
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 7:50pm
This half term, Year Two are exploring plants focusing on the key questions how do they grow? What do they need to grow? To investigate over time we planted some runner beans in a plastic bag with water to watch how it germinates as well as planting our own sunflower seeds. We are pleased to report after a week, our beans have begun to germinate when they have water and the right temperature. Also, most of our sunflowers have turned into seedlings and we are going to continue monitoring how much they grow each week. We are loving checking on them each morning and it's especially exciting now we can see how they grow.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:48pm
Thursday 21st April saw Year 5 have a day full of learning about Science!
The first activity of the day was 'Smashing Stereotypes' hosted by Primary Futures. This event had different types of scientists giving us clues about their jobs and we had to guess what they did. There was a pharmacist, perfume-maker and a plastic developer!
For the rest of the day, we investigated the Gentoo Penguin and did lots of exciting activities about the animal and where it lives.
We then talked about why we had a Science Day and what information we had learnt.
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:40pm
Year 5 have been learning about the unit of Science, 'Living Things and their Habitats'. In this unit, we have started to look at the reproduction process of different plants. Children were fascinated to find out there are flowering plants (sexual) and non-flowering plants (asexual) plants!
To start our learning journey off, the children were given the task of dissecting a daffodil. This was in order for us to explore the plant and its different parts, and learn about the different functions of each part.
We all really enjoyed doing this practical activity and learnt so much about flowers and plants!
Year 3 Investigating how liquids affect plant growth!
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 4:39pm
In Year Three we have been investiagting what plants need in order to grow. This week we have been looking at how different liquids affect the rate in which plants will grow. We used post-it note planning to consider what varibales we could change or keep the same and then planned out our experiment. We then planted cress and will continue to pour tea, water, cola, milk and plant food and measure the plant's growth rate.
Date: 25th Apr 2022 @ 5:14pm
It was Science Day last Thursday at Boundary and what a day we had! We focussed on the importance of looking after and reusing our clothes. We carried out an experiment to see which washing detergent would best clean a stained piece of fabric. We stained a t-shirt with black coffee and then tried and tested three different detergents to see which would be the most effective. We discussed how much carbon dioxide is produced throughout the fashion industry and what happens to the clothes and the microplastics they contain when they are thrown away and sent to landfill.
Date: 21st Apr 2022 @ 9:27pm
Year 2 participated in the whole School celebration of Science today. We begun the day by drawing a Scientist before exploring the stereotypes within the subject looking at a Research Engineer called Charlotte Grinyer who had to overcome her mental health alongside her gender to get to the position she is in today. Shortly after, we got to virtually meet 3 people who have a career in a Scientific field; we asked lots of questions to try and guess there job and learnt you can use Science in lots of different jobs.
Then it was our turn to get Scientific as we made our own slime to use in the experiment we had planned to test the stretchiness of the slime. We decided to see how the temperature of slime may effect it's stretchiness so placed one in the sun, one in the classroom, one in the fridge and one in the freezer. In the afternoon, we tested how far each slime would stretch. We had a super day celebrating Science!
Date: 21st Apr 2022 @ 7:26pm
Today as part of Science Day we investigated the question, ‘Do our body parts grow as we get older?’ We took a sample of hand spans and foot lengths from children from Reception to Year 6. We then used rulers to measure the lengths of each and recorded our results in a table. We discussed our results and identified any ‘anomalies.’ From these results we then created bar graphs to display what we had found out. We discussed that the anomalies are due to the fact everyone is different and grows at different rates. We also explored this through comparing the hand span and foot length of children in our classroom who are the same age. Overall, we found that almost all of our body parts grow as we get older and generally this was shown in our results. We then shared our learning with the rest of our school in our end of day assembly.
Date: 21st Apr 2022 @ 4:37pm
Reception have been helping bringing the bees back into our outdoor area. We used compost, clay powder, wild flower seed to make our very on bee bombs. The children enjoyed mixing them altogether and rolling them into seed balls. Once the sall had dried out in sunn the children threw them into our very own bee bomb meadow to create a wild flower habitat for our bees.
Date: 21st Apr 2022 @ 4:13pm
For Science Day we started by thinking about what a scientists is and looked at key scientists to challenge the steryeotype surrounding what a scientist is. We then were investigating how the length of a shark tells us the age of the animal. We then used this information to see if our height linked to our age and after an investiagtion we found out that this does not work for humans.
Date: 21st Apr 2022 @ 12:04pm
Year 6 had a very busy and productive Science Day. We began by looking at scientific stereotypes and how these could be challenged. We took part in a Primary Futures event, where we were introduced to people who worked in scientific roles within our community. We had a chance to guess which job they did and ask questions about their roles. Although all of their careers were different, they all needed scientific knowledge to do their jobs.
We then moved on to learning about the heart and were given the opportunity to dissect a lamb’s heart. We identified the main parts of the heart, including the aortic valve, atriums and ventricles. We finished the day by focussing on plant-based food. We calculated how many food miles different types of burgers created and then designed our own environmentally friendly version.
Date: 10th Apr 2022 @ 7:18pm
Today we took part in our Science Seasons lesson. We learnt all about the signs of Spring, collaboratively disucssing and sharing our ideas as a class. We compared Spring to the others seasons and shared our ideas on how Spring is different to Autumn, Summer and Winter. We then completed a Seasons sort and looked at the effects of Spring on trees. During the afternoon we also completed some observational drawings and paintings of daffodils.
Date: 31st Mar 2022 @ 10:48am
We have taken a trip to outer space this week! We've read the story "Whatever Next" about a little bear who turns a cardboard box in to a rocket and has a picnic on the moon! We've made shape rockets, junk modelling rockets and counted astronauts on to rockets! We've been developing our fine motor skills by building space towers and we've made planet patterns by dropping coloured water on to oil!
Year 3 Does everything cast a shadow?
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 3:53pm
In Year Three we have been investiagting shadows. We started the lesson by considering how we cast a shadow, this led us to investigate if everything casts a shaow. We tested a wide variety of materials including bubble wrap, cardboard, paper and the window to see if it casted a shadow. This then guided our thinking into grouping each material into translucent, transparent or opaque!
Reception Forest School- Holly Class!
Date: 27th Mar 2022 @ 7:27pm
This week Holly Class have been busy looking for signs of Spring and just look what we discovered!
We found buds and blossom growing on the trees. In the grass we spotted daffodils, daisies and buttercups. However, the most exciting of all was discovering the frog spawn in the pond and some tadpoles swimming there too! Jenna even managed to find a frog!
"Blossom grows on the trees in Spring" Oscar
"Blossom is white and pink" Alicja
"Buds are where new leaves will grow" Charlie
"Daffodils are Spring flowers" Charlea- Rai.
It was such an exciting time learning in the glorious sunshine. We ended the morning by playing hide and seek. Take a look at what fun we had!
Year 2 Help... There's been a power cut!
Date: 24th Mar 2022 @ 4:23pm
Yesterday, we used the Now Press Play equipment to further explore our topic of Electricity. In the story there was a power cut in our town whilst our sister was in urgent need of her dialysis- usually they have this at home but due to the lack of power had to attend the hospital. The hospital was incredibly busy and was using the limited supply of generators. The children decided they had to do something to help and went on a trip to the power station to try and get the power back on to save the people in the hospital. The children used their knowledge of how to make a simple circuit using batteries, wires and bulbs to make their own torch and explored the differences between coal and wind energy. At the end we saved the day and got the towns Electricity back on and disucssed which source of energy is renewable and better for the environment. The children loved the story and it really supported the knowledge of Electricity they have learnt this half term.
Date: 23rd Mar 2022 @ 4:41pm
This week in Reception we have been learning about the importance of keeping ourself and our bodies healthy. As a class we discussed different ways we an keep healthy including having a balanced diet, regular exercise, plenty of sleep, keeping clean and regularly brushing our teeth and keeping ourselves hydrated. We produced some fantastic pieces of writing and even enjoyed making our own healthy snack 'a fruit kebab'. Outside in the garden we enjoyed bathing the babies. brushing the false teeth, buying healthy snack from our shop and exercising on our balance bikes.
Date: 17th Mar 2022 @ 5:32pm
We read a very funny story this week called "Poo In The Zoo". At Iguana eats some fire flies and then is poo begins to glow! We then talked about what a herbivore is and how they eat plants, leaves and vegetables and then created some herbivore poo at the play dough table! Don't worry - any poo involved in this weeks learning was definitely fake!
Year 6 What can fossils tell us?
Date: 15th Mar 2022 @ 8:51pm
In Science this week we have been recapping on what we know about fossils. We discussed what a fossil is and how they are formed by watching a video about their formation over thousands of years. We also learned about Mary Anning, a fossil hunter of the early 1800s and how her finds changed the way scientists viewed fossils. We finished with looking at several examples and discussed what we think was their closest living relative.
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 7:55am
In science we have been investigating how we see and investigating light. We started with a cardboard box and considered what it would be like inside the box. We pierced hole in the box to see if we could see anything and concluded that darkness is the absence of light. We shone torches in the holes in the box to see if we could see any of the objects in the box. We found out that light travels in a straight line so therefore we could only see the objects directly under the torch.
Year 4 We want the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth!
Date: 27th Feb 2022 @ 4:28pm
This half term we are learning all about 'Animals including Humans' in our Science lessons. Our WOW lesson this half term was all about our teeth! What the different types of teeth are and what purpose they serve. We also talked about how different kinds of animnals have different sets of teeth dependent on whether they are a herbivore, omnivore or carnivore.
Date: 25th Feb 2022 @ 8:02pm
On Monday, Year Two began the half term exploring our new Science topic of Electricity! After our first Dance lesson where we will be creating a dance linked to the vocabulary in Science, we completed a carousel of exciting electricity based activities. Whilst some of the children tried to create simple circuits using the resources provided; the other children used static energy to complete a range of tasks. We tried to separate Salt and Pepper using a plastic spoon, stick balloons to the wall using the static energy generated from their hair as well as using balloons to make wings flap on our animal pictures. We all had lots of fun and are looking forward to learning more during our topic.
Year 5 Animals including Humans
Date: 24th Feb 2022 @ 7:58pm
Our first lesson of Science this term was a recap of 'Animals including Humans' from Year 4. To do this, we investigated food chains and the human body. The children had remembered lots of important things about our digestive system and how to look after it (for example, drinking water and eating food that is high in fibre).
We also started to investigate the focus for this year's learning of 'Animals including Humans', which is to be able to describe the changes as humans develop to old age. The children had to put a series of pictures in an order and explain why they had chosen that order - all of them decided on youngest to oldest. We played a 'Spot the difference' game to see how how appearance changes over time and also stretched ourselves to think about the physical changes.
Year 5 are extremely excited to learn about this topic!
Year 3 Wow- Super Shadow Shows!
Date: 22nd Feb 2022 @ 1:57pm
In Year 3 our Wow introduced our science topic of 'Light'. We made shadow puppets and used torches to act out Fairy Tales. We used different films to change the colour of the light and looked at how the distance of the light changed the size of the shadow.
