Blog by Tag: Science

Today with the help of a torch and a globe we investigated how day and night occur on planet Earth. We watched the sunlight gradually disappear from Britain as the Earth spun on its own axis. Our friends in Australia slept soundly during out day and then woke up as we were getting ready for bed. 
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Today we learnt a very technical term in Science - germination.  Here are our beans in bags with very wet paper towels.  Fingers crossed they will germinate successfully so we can see how roots and shoots appear in real life.

In science we are learning about living things and their habitats. Last week we learnt about the characteristics of all living organisms by meeting ‘MRS GREN’ (Movement, Respiration, Sensing, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition). We also made our own sorting diagrams using categories…

Using a torch as our Sun, we recreated a day and worked out where our shadow would be and what size our shadow was. 

In Science we have been learning about the movement of the Earth and the Moon around the Sun. We found out that the Sun stays still and does not move. The Earth orbits the Sun in an anti-clockwise direction. At the same time as it is orbiting it is also spinning on its own axis. The moon orbits…

Today we have set up and conducted our own group investigations to find out what happens to a sound as we move away from the sound source. Each person in our group had their own role. 

After hearing the story of Jack and his beanstalk, the children were very keen to plant their own beans. We looked at different coloured beans and compared their sizes. The children are watering the beans and checking them daily.

This afternoon, Year 6 had a visit from David Spreadbury, an engineer and scientist who brought along lots of interesting practical activities to support this term’s work on light and how we see things.

David had made lots of gadgets himself to help us understand more about how light travels,…

Year two had fun in science today - squashing, bending, twisting and stretching different materials.

Today we have been making musical instruments using recycled materials. 
Thank you to all our parents who helped us find the materials we needed at home. 
We will finish our instruments in the morning. 
Watch this space for our finished products. 

In science, we have been investigating teeth, their functions and how to look after them.  We wanted to find out which drinks damaged teeth the most and so last week  we set an experiment using hardboiled eggs to see the effect that different liquids had on their shells.  In our groups, we chose 3…

This afternoon we welcomed Mr Needham into Year 6 for the first of our sessions on nutrition and healthy eating. We had a general overview of what makes a balanced diet and got to sample some fruit and vegetables that contain a large proportion of water.