Year 5 Science – Filtering
Year 5 have been making their own water filters from rocks, pasta, rice, couscous, sand and cotton wool. They didn’t have to use them all, but had to decide what would work...
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Year 5 Science – Mixtures
Year 5 have been investigating mixtures in this week’s science lesson. They had to make mixtures to recipes – for example a mixture with 3 substances the same colour, a mixture with...
Year 5 Science – Levers, Gears and Pulleys
Year 5 have been looking at levers, gears and pulleys in Science. This week, they made their own pulley using 2 cups, string, a skewer, a straw and elastic bands. They made...
Science/STEM- To strengthen our work on careers and science/STEM subjects
Year 3 took part in the NHS ‘Step into the NHS’ competition. We learned about many jobs available across the NHS and the transferable skills required such as creativity, teamwork and research....
Year 5 Science – Friction
This week in Science, Year 5 have been investigating friction. They used a wooden block on different surfaces to see how much force (or how many marbles it would take) to make...
Year 2 Science – Plant Lifecycle
Year 2 drew stages of a plant’s lifecycle. They worked in teams in a relay race to construct a lifecycle. They then created books to record what they had learnt. It was...
Year 5 Science – Water Resistance
Year 5 have been investigating water resistance as part of their topic on forces. They used plasticine to make different shapes and dropped them into water, carefully timing how long each shape...
Science in Year 3
This half term, we have been exploring plants. We have looked at the parts of a flowering plant and discussed their functions. Today, we investigated how water is transported around a plant....
Year 5 Science – Air Resistance
In Science, Year 5 have been investigating air resistance as part of their topic on forces. In groups of 3 they made small, medium and large parachutes and attached pegs to act...
Year 3 Science- Investigating shadows
Today in year 3, we carried out an investigation to find out if the distance of a light source affects the size of a shadow. We thought about how to make a...