Blog by Tag: Science

Well done to this pupil in class 3 for growing their own vegetables at home!

Today we investigated whether people with longer femurs could jump further. We made predictions, measured the femurs of everyone in our groups and then measured how far we could jump. 

We made sure that we all jumped from the same spot and did the same kind of jump. 

We found that some of…

Class 11 went on a bug hunt and was identifying our school garden.

Today in Science class 11 worked together to create their own questions for a key to sort living things based on their characteristics.

Class 6 took part in a workshop about climate change.

They learnt about where oxygen comes from and how it is getting used up as more people came on the planet and factories and the modern world took over. They also learnt how sunlight can get trapped in the carbon dioxide warming the planet,…

Last week Xana from Grow to School came into year 3. We started off in class designing and making parachutes for eggs.  

We went outside to test them and had some brilliant designs that worked well to protect our eggs. 

We then went into our wildlife garden to harvest some of our lettuce we…

This week in science class 8 have started a new topic all about our bodies. 

To start with we talked about what we already know and labelled an outline of a human body with where we think internal organs are. 

We then wrote down questions we would like to find out the answer to.

This week, Class 16 researched different life cycles. 

These included ducks, frogs, mammals and fish. 

Children then presented their research to the rest of the class, and we summarised the information, thinking about the listening ladder and the physical strand of our oracy framework.

Today we developed our oracy during science. 

We worked in teams to retrieve information from hidden research sheets. 

They had to develop their linguistic skills and use appropriate vocabulary to identify organs and describe the functions in the body.

A pupil from class 15 spent sometime in the nature garden with Mrs Best fixing the greenhouse from storm damage and fitting 2 water butts to make watering our plants in the warm weather much easier. 

He did a great job and was a real help.

Today class 7 continued our topic of forces in science. 

We conducted experiments on magnetism. 

Class 9 have been looking at the effects of different substances on teeth. 

We left chalk in substances such as Coke and orange juice for a week before inspecting them under the magnifying glass. We then discussed our findings.