Category: Science

Green Up Your Act visited us this week to deliver a Green Shoots workshop – focusing on how we can reduce emissions from the transport of our food. We talked briefly about how our food is transported and where it comes from, and compared British products to ones found globally. Should we always buy British?…

Cooling Off in Summer Air Products came to visit us and with them they brought all sorts of science goodies – including a freezing tank of liquid nitrogen! They ran demonstrations and workshops for the school, and the children got the opportunity to learn about the freezing points of liquids and gases, about the conductivity…

When we arrived, our teachers took us to the play area which unfortunately was closed so we went to a maze made out of stacks of hay. There was a sheep and a rabbit made out of twigs so we took some photos with them. After that, we were running around the rock garden, looking…

Dr. Charlotte Rademeyer, from Camberley Dental Practice visited Lyndhurst to talk to all year groups about dental hygiene.  We all need to remember ‘Happy Teeth, Happy Smiles’! The children also received Colgate toothbrush packs and stickers. Year 4 & Year 3 impressed Dr. Rademeyer with their knowledge on how to care for their teeth during…

Year 5 became jungle explorers for the day; not in the Amazon Jungle but in deepest darkest Berkshire! Yes, that’s right, they sweated and toiled and suffered unspeakable hardships in the Living Rainforest to seek out new species, such as the 5-banded armadillo, Goeldi’s monkeys and the green iguana (which is actually pink!). Along the…

Year 5 and 6 journeyed to Baylab last week to take part in some hands-on Science! Last year they created bath bombs and lip balm so the children were expecting good things. They were not disappointed. When it was revealed that the children would be extracting their own DNA to make necklaces, there was an awful…

Year 3 & 4 have had a fantastic sunny day at Wisley Gardens. They explored trees in the Tree-mendous workshop. They learnt that one cactus is called Old Man Cactus because of it’s grey beard.  A new fact of the day was that Giant sequoia trees are largest trees in the world and they make…

In the Autumn Term, Year 2 wrote letters to Tim Peake to share their passion for learning about Space. About two months ago we received a letter from European Space Agency that Mr Peake had been very busy and had not been able to reply. Today a postman surprised us with a special poster with…