Science: Blog items
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 10:36am
WOW! What a great trip to Aspire this morning. We learned how to be safe when using bunsen burners to heat up water and produce steam. We changed a liquid to a gas.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 3:35pm
Today, despite the weather, we enjoyed our second forest school session. Michelle read us a book called 'cool by the pool' and we pretended to be the animals in the book before we split into two groups; one group went pond dipping to look for bugs, plants and animals that we might find in a pond habitat and others explored the forest school garden opting to play in the mud puddle, mud kitchen, creating art or playing 'what time is it Mr Owl?' before we swapped over. Just before we came inside, we warmed up by having a cup of warm vimto.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:07am
In this lesson Year 3 looked at completing a fair test experiment that we had planned the week before. We investigated how friction changed on different surfaces then we measured and recorded our results. We had to use the measuring skills that we had learnt in Maths to support in carrying out the test accurately.
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 9:14am
This week, we looked at whether states of matter can be changed. We used coloured ice cubes from the freezer and observed what happened when we changed the temperature (we kept them in our classroom).
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 7:11pm
Today we continued to learn about our senses in Science whilst focusing on our sense of taste. We learnt new vocabulary associated with taste, which bit of the tongue is associated with each taste and all the different parts of the mouth. We then used the new vocabulary we had learnt to try and to describe the taste of lots of different foods!
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 12:34pm
Nursery discovered some dragons frozen in ice this week! They worked together to find ways to set them free. They learnt that making the ice warm would help to melt it so they tried warm water and moving the ice around. Once the ice began to melt the children could wiggle the dragons free.
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 3:46pm
We began our Forest School sessions today. To start we reminded ourselves of the Forest School rules that are in place to keep us all safe. We then went on a scavenger hunt to find a range of items that we then used to create a piece of art. Some of us chose to play in the mud kitchen and some of us worked together to build a shelter. Then it was onto the pond habitat to search for frogs. We were very excited to see a few hopping about as they were tiny tadpoles last time we visited in Spring.
Year 6 - Investigating Refraction
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 2:37pm
Year 6 had a very practical science lesson this week, investigating refraction. We learned how refraction can change the direction in which light travels resulting in illusions and distorted images.
Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 2:46pm
In today's Science lesson, Year 6 carried out investigations to answer questions about shadows. They found out which type of objects make the darkest shadow, how the shape of the shadow is created by the object that is blocking the light and how to make a shadow larger or smaller.
Date: 20th Sep 2023 @ 5:11pm
Today, we continued our topic by exploring microhabitats. We thought about where we would find microhabitats before going into the forest school area to explore these to see what minibeasts we could find. We also discussed the conditions of the microhabitats and thought about how these minibeasts survived there. We looked under leaves, rocks, logs, under the bark and in some soil.
Date: 19th Sep 2023 @ 9:34am
Key questions: What is mass? Does air have mass? Which gas does fire need to burn?
We discovered that air does have mass by weighing an empty balloon and a balloon with air in it.
We also discovered that when mixing bicarbonate of soda and vinegar we got carbon dioxide and our match blew out. That's because fire needs oxygen to burn.
Date: 18th Sep 2023 @ 5:36pm
Today we began our second lesson on senses. We recapped the fact that we have five senses and the body part associated with each. We then focused on hearing and sight. Firstly, we talked about the sense of hearing, which body part we use and what is happening when we hear. We played sound bingo with a range of common sounds. We had to listen very carefully!
After this we moved onto our sense of sight. We again discussed which body part we use and what is happening when we see something. We then did an illusions test! Some of us could see both pictures and some of us could only see one! We also learnt the different parts of our eyes, including eyelashes, eyebrow, pupil and eyelid.
We realised that there are lots of things we do that use more than one sense! We then went on an observational walk around our school grounds, inside and outside, focusing on what we could see and what we could hear. We stopped on the playground, closed our eyes and focused on the sounds around us. We also walked through school and listened to the sounds coming from all around our school!
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 9:17am
As part of our science journey into space, we have learned about the different planets in our solar system and how they orbit the Sun. In this lesson, we went outside and made a scale model to represent the distances between the planets.
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 8:53am
In Science, Year 3 have looked at investigating forces and looking at friction in action. The children did a range of activities to see how friction worked and what happened when they rubbed their hands together.
Date: 11th Sep 2023 @ 5:36pm
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.
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 10:22pm
This week on a rather rainy day, Reception harvested the peas they had grown in their outdoor area. They enjoyed eating them, counting the peas and calculating how many were left in the pod.
"The peas needed water to grow and the sun too" Lana- Rose.
"They taste yummy!" Halleigh.
"Peas are healthy for you- they are a vegetable".Harper.
"I had five peas. i ate one and had four left" Amelia.
Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 7:41am
Today our Forest School session was all about plants! We began by identifying plants around the area, looking closely at their leaves to help us. We then made our own transient flowers out of natural objects, planted seeds and small plants and used paint pens and charcoal to create drawings of flowers. By the end of our session we had found lots of different wild plants and garden plants, recapped on the parts of plants and the 5 things plants need to survive.
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 12:21pm
We found a very sleepy bumble bee in our nursery garden this week. To help him get some energy back we gave him some sugar water and he was soon off flying again. The children showed a real interest in the bugs so we went on a big bug hunt around the nursery garden. We found grasshoppers, more bees and a little grass beetle. The children were so excited we're going to carry on exploring for bugs next week.
Year 4 - States of matter consolidation
Date: 26th Jun 2023 @ 4:05pm
Today we did some 'States of Matter' consolidation. We remember lots from our unit earlier in the year! We started the lesson looking at a chocolate bar which Miss Crystal had mistakenly left on the window ledge in the sun. It had melted into a liquid. We put it in the fridge to see if we could change it back to a solid and checked on it at the end of the lesson. It had changed back to a solid but the shape wasn't like the chocolate bar was at the beginning. So we learned that the melting process can be reversed, but it may look different to the original solid. Then we were all given an ice cube and observed what happened to it. We recalled that applying heat to a solid such as an ice cube causes melting to happen. The solid turns to a liquid (water). Next we got a little bit messy. It's been a warm day, so we were all given a piece of chocolate and we had to see what would happen it we just kept it in our hands!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 12:26pm
Year 3- Stop the Block Mad Science!
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 2:39pm
We had a special visit from a mad scientist, Inquisitive Indie, who came to speak to us about what we put down the toilet! We found out that by putting things we shouldn't down the toilet that we are clogging up the drains. Inquisitive Indie showed us how this happens through some exciting Science experiments, we even got to use dry ice! We found out that we should only flush the 3 P's (ask us what they are!) and we all got our own toilet roll to take home.
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 2:34pm
Today we recapped out learning on forces by doing a carousel of activities around the room. We looked at how much force was needed to make an object move, we tested if bigger magnets were strong, if magnets worked underwater, we sorted push and pull forces and finally we used magnets to complete a maze.
Date: 14th Jun 2023 @ 11:50am
On Monday Recepton had 5 little eggs delivered to your classroom. The eggs were placed in the incubator to keep them warm. The children waiting in anticipation for the eggs to begin to hatch. On Tuesday some cracks appeared in one of the eggs and at lunchline a little baby duckling hatched. the duckling had to stay in the incubator until her feather dried out. The children will be watching closely all week to observe the nest for eggs hatching.
Year 4 - Mad Science United Utilities assembly
Date: 13th Jun 2023 @ 8:01pm
This morning, we had 'Mad Science' in funded by United Utilities to talk to us about our drains. We learned about what is (toilet roll sheets and sugar) and what isn't (wet wipes, oil, fat) appropriate to flush down the toilet and down the sink.
Too add a bit more fun - we even got to feel some dry ice whilst we waited to the oil to freeze at -72 degrees.
Year 2 Transparent, Translucent or Opaque?
Date: 13th Jun 2023 @ 3:47pm
Today, Year Two began consolidating our Science learning by recapping our knowledge learnt in our Everyday materials and their properties unit. We flashbacked different materials and their properties before conducting an investigation to find the most suitable window for the three little pigs house to ensure they were hidden from the wolf but light would be able to fill the house. We tested a variety of materials and described them using key language transparent, translucent and opaque. We decided the best materials were the ones that were translucent.