Blog by Tag: Science

This week in Team Starlings, we have been learning about the Earth's axis, tilt, rotation, and orbit. We have used plasticine balls and torches to help us understand why we have day and night- demonstrating how when the earth rotates, half faces towards the sun, (daytime), and half faces away from…

What a fantastic trip we had this week to the National Space Centre! Team Starlings had a brilliant time learning all about our Solar System. Highlights included seeing a real rocket, (pictured), an actual piece of the moon itself, a fantastic Planetarium experience, zooming around the solar…

As part of our topic of Rocks and Soils, we have been learning about how fossils are formed. To help us to understand this process a little better and to help us remember it, we created our own fossils. Once we had created the fossil in our clay rock and left it for millions of years (or maybe…

In Science we have been learning about the senses. We had a really exciting lesson in which one pupil got to wear Miss Hems' scarf and then had to guess the object using their senses. We played a video clip of the noise it made, we smelt it, we touched it, and we even got to taste it! It was…

To finish our learning in our Forces and Magnets topic, children in Badgers completed some research about how magnets are used in our every day lives. Once they had completed research using a variety of sources, they presented their findings in their books, organised in their own…

This week Daffodils class explored the forest school area. We had a great time picking daisies, waving long grass in the wind and breaking up the ice in the mud kitchen. We all remembered our kind hands and made sure that everyone was welcomed in our games. Daffodils have asked to go back to…

Team Meadow loved going on a minibeast hunt to see which minibeasts live on our school grounds!

This half term in science we have been learning about electricity and circuits. Today we have created an advice poster about being safe around electricity in the home.

Sunflowers have been learning all about Autumn. We have discussed the changes in the seasons and what happens in Autumn. We then developed our knowledge by researching key facts about Autumn. 

We have had a wonderful time experimenting with materials in Team Starlings today! We have been investigating which material is the best thermal insulator. We tested felt, bubble wrap and paper, wrote a very detailed method, making sure to include our control, independent, and dependent variables.…

In Science we are learning about materials. We have been 'material detectives' and we went on a material hunt. We found an object and then wrote what it is made out of for example- Bench-Wood. We had so much fun!

Today children in Year 3 started to learn about different types of forces. We learnt about push, pull and twist forces.  We had a go at some challenges and identified which type of force we were using. We labelled these on diagrams also.