Blog by Tag: Science

This afternoon, we were investigating what happened to our bodies when we exercise. It made our hearts beat faster, made us hotter and we were out of breath.

We also learned that exercise was good for our physical health and our mental health.

As part of out DT topic on structure, we have been investigating different techniques for making strong stable structures using a variety of materials. We want our final shelters to be able to withstand wind, rain, wear and tear and impact, so we used our science investigation skills to test how…

We wrote letters to Supertato asking for his help. We arrived into our classroom and found Evil Pea frozen in ice balloons. We then had a discussion about how he froze him and we need to make sure we don’t let the ice get warm or it will melt. 

We have been learning about how sedimentary rocks are formed. Today with Mrs Dowson in science we made food models to show the different layers found in sedimentary rocks. We really enjoyed tasting our creations at the end!

We have been looking at the four seasons and been exploring the changes in our environment during each season. We have linked our calendars and made 4 trees based on each season. 

This afternoon we had four medical students from Lancaster University visiting our class. They told us about different aspects of keeping healthy, such as healthy eating, good sleep habits, exercise, personal hygiene and mental health. They also taught us what to do in an emergency and we had a go…

Today Year 6 had great fun playing with plasticine! They had to predict which shapes would be most streamline and therefore fall to the bottom of a measuring cylinder fastest. They explored how to create more water resistance and slow down the speed at which the shapes sank to the bottom. They…

Year 6 were set the challenge of designing a parachute which would provide the slowest and safest descent for our 'person'. They could change the size of parachute, the material it was made from or the string length before carrying out a fair test, keeping all other variables the same. Once the…

We drew around our willing volunteer and labelled the part of the body. We even spoke about parts inside our body too e.g. heart, lungs etc. 

It’s not even the end of the first week and we’ve already taken part in two exciting things! On Wednesday, Harold the giraffe from the Life Education Van visited to teach us about the inside of our bodies and our feelings. On Thursday, Rock kidz came back to school and we were all rocking and…

Jambo! Today we had a wonderful visitor - Peter - who is a wildlife photographer. He lives in Kenya and told us all about some of the animals that he has encountered there. He has zebras outside his house who eat his grass every day so he doesn’t need a lawnmower!  He told us about the mountain…

We have enjoyed travelling to Africa this afternoon. We designed African masks and Peter came in to talk about African wildlife. We had an amazing time!