Category: Science
Year 2 Greenfield Festival
Year 2 were fortunate enough to journey to Greenfield School in Woking to take part in their KS1 Children’s Festival. They have been preparing for it since the start of the Spring term and researched, wrote about and created a presentation on Fairtrade bananas. They presented this at Greenfield in front of other schools, before…
Dinosaur adventures at Surrey Heath Museum for Reception
Reception had a very warm welcome from Surrey Heath Museum when they went to learn all about dinosaur fossils. A big thank you to Samantha from Surrey Heath Museum who showed the children how fossils are made and then all the children went on a picture fossil hunt around the museum. They then did their…
Year 6 STEM – Growing Mould
Year 6’s investigation into mould growth has concluded – and with some pretty gross results! They found that the best conditions to promote mould were on the windowsill, while slightly moist. The On the radiator, however, no mould grew at all, proving their theory that high temperatures were not conducive to microbe growth. They…
Year 3 STEM
Year 3 have been continuing their learning about the human body and used every opportunity to make models. First, they used cotton buds to make human skeletons, then they represented biceps and triceps with elastics, to show how when one muscle contracts, the other one expands. Lastly, they used straws and raisins to model the…
Skeletons in Year 3
In science in the Year 3 class, they have focused their learning on the human skeleton. They have enjoyed learning a new rap with the names of the bones (here it is, in case you fancy singing at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5dYvPruBFY). The children also had lots of fun making their own skeletons out of cotton buds….
Year 2 LEAF boat building
This term, the Year 2 children enjoyed collecting sticks, tying them together to create boats as part of their outdoor learning LEAF lesson. They then had a competition to see which boat would float, and which would sink. Thank goodness for the rain that day!
Year 1 – Taste testing
Last week during our STEM lesson, Year 1 explored their taste senses by trying different types of food and using scientific vocabulary to describe them. They used words such as ‘crunchy, soft, sweet, salty, gooey and juicy’ to describe their food. They tried bread, hula hoops, carrot sticks, strawberries and dried cranberries. The children loved…
Year 1 trip to Portsmouth Blue Reef Aquarium
A big thank you to the Blue Reef Aquarium in Portsmouth for hosting the Year 1 trip. They got fully submerged in their ‘Under the Sea’ topic! The Year 1 children got to take part in a shark workshop where they got to feel and see different shark teeth! They were all amazed by them…
Year 2 Lookout Discovery Centre
A big thank you to The Lookout in Bracknell for a fantastic Year 2 trip. The children loved exploring, investigating and having fun with science, technology, engineering, art and maths. When the children arrived, they were greeted by their host Jaya. They were talked through all of the safety rules and first explored the woodland…
Breadmaking in Reception
Reception did a brilliant job making bread rolls from scratch. They carefully weighed out all the ingredients paying close attention to the weighing scales, then they all had a turn mixing all the ingredients together. They waited very patiently whilst the bread proved and enjoyed seeing how much it had risen. The children loved kneading…
