Blog by Tag: Science

In science we have been learning about light. We have discovered that our eyes are not light sources so without light we wouldn’t be able to see. We tested this by covering our eyes with a black hat. We couldn’t see a thing!
We then looked at reflective surfaces. We came to the conclusion…

We have had great fun planting sunflower seeds. We have been learning about what plants need to stay healthy as part of our science topic, so we are going use what we have learnt to look after our sunflowers and hopefully watch them grow. I wonder whose will grow the tallest?

As part of Class One’s health and life cycles science unit, we have been investigating how results can change over time. The children took part in the Daily Mile every afternoon for the week, running, jogging or walking around the field for five minutes each day. Each time, they carefully recorded…

For this experiment we used baking soda and vinegar to create an irreversible change. We used differing amounts to see how much CO2 was created by the reaction by capturing the gas in a balloon and then measuring. 

Class Three worked scientifically using heat to create irreversible changes. They looked at how different materials burned and recorded their observations. 

Children used heat to melt different items then allowed them to cool to see if they changed back to their original state.

This week in Science, our EYFS and KS1 scientists put their measuring skills to the test as they investigated human growth! Armed with measuring tapes and teamwork, they set out to answer two big questions:

• Are children in the same year group all the same height?
• Do children grow taller as…

Today, EYFS enjoyed going on a ‘signs of Spring’ walk around the school grounds. They looked high and low to find signs of Spring and were delighted to find birds, daffodils, a nest, flowers, green leaves on trees and some buds. Back in the classroom the children did some fantastic writing to…

This afternoon we investigated the hardness of different materials using a scratch test.

We built our own periscopes and investigated their uses. 
 

This week in our Science lesson, we traded in our usual classroom setting for the great outdoors in Forest School. The mission? To become botanists for the day! Equipped with magnifying glasses and identification charts, the children set off to study the hidden flowers in the forest.

The…

Our scientists spent time investigating how light travels, measuring the angles of the reflected ray against the incoming ray.