Science
Our school definition of Science:
Science is the study and understanding of the world around us through observation and experimentation.
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Reception have had lots of fun exploring their senses on an autumn walk 🍂🍁 In groups, they explored the playground and field and searched for lots of nature around them. They listened to the sounds outside, used their sense of touch to feel different things, smelt the fresh air and looked all around them 🍄🍁🍂
Year 1 took their science learning outside as they continued to learn about the different parts of the human body. Children had to draw around each other and use the labels to correctly label their body parts.
Year 2 walked to the woods as part of their Science topic 'Local Habitats'. Our budding scientists had a great time exploring a woodland habitat, and they identified different plants, found fungi and spotted birds and insects.
As part of their science topic, Rocks and Soils, Year 3 got creative and made dirt pudding. They created different layers of the earth using different food products.
In Science, Year 4 have been investigating which drinks are best for their teeth. They submerged eggs into 7 different drinks including Coca Cola, water, milk and energy drinks to see which would change the egg shell and which wouldn’t. Year 4 concluded that water and milk were the only ones that didn’t change the egg, so they must be the best for our teeth.
Year 5 have learnt all about how mammals reproduce. They drew a life cycle of a mammal to show what happens from fertilisation right through to being an adult.
Year 6 started their science topic on the human circulatory system. They have learnt the three main parts of the circulatory system, and they have been learning the different parts of the heart. They know A comes before V so Atriums are the upper chambers and Ventricles are the lower chambers. They also learnt a pneumonic for knowing the order of the valves: try pulling my aorta (tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral, aortic).