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Category Archives: Science

Wingfield’s Science Teachers visit Roughwood

Thursday, 16th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Wow! What a fantastic visit we had today from Miss Owen and Miss Williams from Wingfield Academy! We learnt all about light and how we see different colours. We made […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Science Week STEM: Spaghetti Bridges

Thursday, 16th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 6 took part in a very tricky challenge this afternoon! As part of British Science Week, we challenged children to make connections by building spaghetti bridges … Children showed […]

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Design & Technology, News and Events, Science, Year 6

Science Week Workshops!

Wednesday, 15th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Wow! What an incredible time we’ve had this week at our Science Ambassador workshops! As part of British Science Week, our Science Ambassadors have led workshops with all classes across […]

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News and Events, Our learning, Science, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

WW2 Blackout Science Investigation

Tuesday, 14th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

During the Second World War, British residents had to cover their windows and doors at night with heavy blackout material in order to cover any glimmer of light coming from […]

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History, Science, Year 6

Science Week Assembly

Tuesday, 14th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a fantastic assembly we had today! This afternoon, Mrs Graham and the Science Ambassadors shared some experiments linked with this year’s British Science Week Theme, ‘Connections’… We got lots […]

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Which surface produces the most friction?

Thursday, 2nd Marchby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 have taken part in a scientific enquiry. Children had three separate surfaces: smooth, bumpy and textured and then used the same truck to test the speed down the […]

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Investigating Friction!

Monday, 27th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Lower KS2 have been working hard this week in Science and Literacy, learning all about friction and then planning and carrying out a fair test to investigate it … We […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Class 2 Great Fire of London Workshop

Friday, 24th Februaryby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week we had a special workshop with ALFRESCO learning about the Great Fire of London. We started the workshop by casting our minds back to how houses were built […]

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Educational Visit, Oracy, Science, Year 1, Year 2

Great Fire of London Workshop

Friday, 24th Februaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today class 3 had a morning of fun learning more about the Great fire of London. We had a workshop outside with a company called Alfresco Learning. The first task […]

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Educational Visit, History, Science, Well-being, Year 2

STEM Boat Challenge

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

The whole school participated in the Willow Tree boat-making STEM challenge this week. The children had basic resources to create a boat which they thought would float when holding a […]

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Replicating the steel process in Y3S

Tuesday, 7th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 we’re taught by Miss Thorley, children used different coloured ice cubes to replicate different metals and had a go at melting them into their very own “crucible […]

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Class 6 investigate ‘changing solids’ in science

Thursday, 2nd Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Within yesterdays learning, Year 5 have been learning about what happens to solids when mixed with liquids During our most recent science lessons, the children have planned their investigation and […]

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Oracy, Our learning, Science, Year 5

Exploring the States of matter through movement in Y3

Thursday, 12th Januaryby Leave a comment

Today children in Class 4 were introduced to the states of matters in Science to support us with our new topic around how steel is made. We decided to do […]

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Young Science Ambassador Training Day!

Featuredby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Wow! What an incredible experience we’ve had today with STEAMWORKS at Rockingham J&I School! The children worked collaboratively with the other Young Science Ambassadors in our academy and we are […]

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Educational Visit, News and Events, Science, Year 4, Year 5

Investigating Magnetism in Class 5

Thursday, 5th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What an exciting afternoon we’ve had today in Class 5! The children used their investigation skills to find out which materials in our classroom were magnetic … Was this plastic […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 4

Exploring Ice

Thursday, 5th Januaryby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Little Acorns we have been exploring what ice looks like and what it feels like. We have learnt that it is cold, wet and hard. We have really enjoyed […]

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Little Acorns, Our learning, Science, Seasonal

Absorbency Investigation in Class 3

Tuesday, 3rd Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today in class 3 we have carried out an investigation to find out the absorbency of water in different materials. We tested materials such as felt, paper, wood and metal. […]

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Science, Year 2

Moon Buggy STEM Challenge!

Sunday, 4th Decemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 5 had a fantastic time last week, building their very on moon buggies and testing them using our rocket launcher! Take a look at their amazing learning … Well […]

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Design & Technology, News and Events, Science, Year 5

Investigating the “perfect” curtains on our pulley system

Tuesday, 22nd Novemberby Leave a comment

Class 4 have been investigating what material will make the best set of curtains for our Victorian stage . We made predictions based on 5 different materials. Plastic wallet, tin […]

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Design & Technology, Science

Investigating Shadows in Science

Tuesday, 22nd Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 5 have had a wonderful afternoon, learning all about how shadows are formed and investigating the size and shape of different shadows… Fantastic teamwork, Class 5!

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News and Events, Science, Year 4

Special Mentions Assembly in Autumn Term 2 at Roughwood Primary School

Friday, 11th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

The children at Roughwood Primary School have been showcasing their achievements and high quality outcomes in our weekly special mentions assembly. In todays assembly, there was a variety of learning […]

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Art, Maths, News and Events, Our learning, Science, Subjects, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Exploring transparent, translucent, opaque and reflective objects in Y3S

Thursday, 3rd Novemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Y3S have been looking at some new vocabulary during our science learning on light and shadows. We began by working in groups to choose 4 items from the classroom. We […]

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Space Exploration Afternoon

Tuesday, 12th Julyby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

The children in Year 5 were invited to a space exploration afternoon at Rockingham Junior and Infant School today. The science ambassadors across the academy voted on what science experience […]

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Educational Visit, Science, Year 5

Lemon Battery Power!

Thursday, 30th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

In Science, Y3&4 have been learning about electricity and simple series circuits … We have carried out a few investigations so far and these have led us to a new […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 4

Making electrical switches in Science

Tuesday, 14th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 used lots of STEM skills this afternoon to construct their own electrical switches! Last week, we explored materials which conduct electricity and we decided these would make the […]

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Maths, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Exploring Electrical Circuits!

Tuesday, 10th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 6 had a fantastic afternoon of investigation today, finding out how to make a complete electrical circuit! Take a look …

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News and Events, Science, Year 4

Science Week: Teeth!

Thursday, 17th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Do all liquids cause damage to our teeth? This was our research question for Science Week and we decided to find out by using eggs to represent our teeth … […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 4

Science Week: Special Mentions

Thursday, 17th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a fantastic week we’ve had this week for British Science Week! Our Science Ambassadors have once again made us so proud, topping off the week with a wonderful demonstration […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

A caterpillars wish

Wednesday, 16th Marchby jodie712 Leave a comment

We have loved learning all about caterpillars in Little Acorns. We enjoyed exploring in our sensory tray and we were so excited to learn about the caterpillars cocoon – we […]

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Acorns, News and Events, Science

Science Week: Family Learning!

Tuesday, 15th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a wonderful morning of scientific learning! As part of British Science Week, Year 3 and 4 parents were invited to take part in a special science lesson with their […]

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Family Learning, News and Events, Science, Year 3, Year 4

Science investigation

Thursday, 10th Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

In science this week we have been investigating how to get a paper clip out of a jug of water without getting our hands wet. We predicted whether or not […]

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Science, Year 2

Stop Motion Animation in Science

Wednesday, 9th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Lower KS2 children have been learning about the digestive system in Science this term. Today, we used I can animate to make our own moving digestive systems … Fantastic teamwork! […]

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Computing, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Heart of Willow Tree Casting Day!

Featuredby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What an amazing day we’ve had today with Casting Innovations Ltd! Mr Brooks and his team were in school all day, working on the next stage of our Heart of […]

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Art, Design & Technology, News and Events, Science, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Heart of Willow Tree

Friday, 18th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 3 and 4 started work on our exciting Heart of Willow Tree project this week! Every child (and adult!) across our phase, made a heart out of Fimo clay, […]

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Art, Design & Technology, News and Events, Science, Year 3, Year 4

Science in Year 5 and 5/6

Tuesday, 8th Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

During our science lessons, class 7 and 8 have been learning about materials and their properties, and have recently learnt about making predictions between soluble and insoluble ingredients. Over the […]

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Science, Year 5

Science Ambassador Assembly

Wednesday, 2nd Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Our Science Ambassadors did an amazing job today, planning and supporting classes in our whole school assembly! The team met last week to plan today’s investigation, linked to the upcoming […]

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News and Events, Science

STEM Rocket Launch Challenge

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

What an amazing morning we’ve had today in Year 5. We launched our model rockets into space from the playground and watched them fall back to Earth … but did […]

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Design & Technology, News and Events, Science, Year 5

Ice Investigation in Class 6

Thursday, 25th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 6 have been observing how long it takes ice to melt at room temperature … We used a funnel to hold the solid ice as we measured the liquid […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 4

Computing in class 7 and 8

Monday, 22nd Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

In ICT, class 7 and 8 have been using ‘Scratch’ as part of their programming lessons to create a script to show the changes and different phases of the moon. […]

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Computing, Science, Year 5

STEM Investigation In Classes 7 and 8

Friday, 19th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

As we begin to learn about air resistance, the children in Class 7 and 8 design and build rockets using only one material to support the astronaut as they travel […]

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Science, Year 5, Year 6

Class 4&5 STEM Challenge

Friday, 19th Novemberby Mr Perry Leave a comment

Class 4 and 5 have had a fantastic morning, building a structure to meet a specific design brief linked to our class text ‘The Explorer.’ By using their superb team […]

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Design & Technology, Maths, Science, Year 3, Year 4

STEM challenge – Mars Rovers with forces

Tuesday, 16th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

This week at Roughwood Primary, children in Year 5 and 5/6 have been invited to take part in a fantastic STEM challenge – as we learn about forces, the children […]

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Design & Technology, Maths, Science, Year 5

K’nex space challenge

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children from Roughwood have taken part in a fantastic STEM challenge today. The challenge was to create an air-powered moon buggy that could go the distance. The designs had to […]

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Design & Technology, Maths, Science, Year 5

Class 2 Brazil day!

Monday, 15th Novemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

Today Class 2 have been on a fabulous adventure to Brazil! We transformed the classroom into a plane and even saw the plane take off. We then learnt about Brazil’s […]

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Geography, Literacy, Music, Science, Year 1, Year 2

Explorer STEM Challenge!

Friday, 12th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What an incredible morning of STEM learning we’ve had in Class 6 today … The children were given a design brief, linked to their class text, and put into teams […]

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Design & Technology, Geography, Maths, Science, Year 4

Liquid Racing in Science!

Thursday, 11th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

This afternoon, classes in lower key stage two have been working scientifically to investigate how different liquids flow… First, we had to guess what each of the liquids were by […]

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Science, Year 4

Class 7 and 8 Visit Leicester Space Centre

Thursday, 4th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Having visited Leicester Space Centre, the children in Year 5 and 6 experienced a range of space exploration learning activities. From entering space modules, to visiting the space tower, children […]

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Educational Visit, History, Science, Year 5, Year 6

Class 6 experience a tropical rainforest!

Thursday, 14th Octoberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What an amazing day we’ve had today at the Tropical Butterfly House! The children experienced a real rainforest habitat and even handled some rainforest animals! The children’s behaviour was exceptional […]

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Educational Visit, Geography, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Rainforest Animal Classification Keys

Wednesday, 13th Octoberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 6 have been using their ICT skills to support their Science learning this afternoon, creating classification keys using Purple Mash!

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Computing, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Survival Skills Investigation in Class 6

Wednesday, 29th Septemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 6 have had a wonderful week this week, writing our instructions on how to survive the rainforest. During that Literacy learning, we thought about how we might find and […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Class 8 Remote learning

Thursday, 23rd Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Miss Sare has had the pleasure of teaching the wonderful Class 8 this week. It has been great to see children continuing to show their resilience and hard work during […]

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Geography, Literacy, Our learning, Science, Year 5

Class 2 Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Thursday, 16th Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Yesterday Class 2 loved their trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We experienced a fantastic workshop about Fur, Feathers and Skin. In this the children were given the opportunity to […]

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Educational Visit, Science, Year 1, Year 2

How many invertebrates live on our school grounds?

Wednesday, 15th Septemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 6 had a fantastic time searching our school grounds this afternoon, looking for invertebrates! In Science, we’ve been learning to group living things in a variety of ways. Today, […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 4

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Wednesday, 15th Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

What an amazing day we have had at the wildlife park. We have seen lots of animals and some very brave children even stroked a lizard and a cockroach. All […]

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Educational Visit, Science, Year 2

Year 5 explore habitats in and around the pond

Wednesday, 23rd Juneby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

In science, Year 5 explored different habitats before learning about metamorphosis in our next lesson. The children found a range of creatures and insects this afternoon that were located in […]

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Science, Year 5

Observational Science in Year 4

Thursday, 17th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

This week, Class 6 have planned and carried out an investigation to see which liquids cause the most tooth decay. We used eggs to represent our teeth, because the shell […]

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News and Events, Science, Year 4

Y3S Light investigation

Wednesday, 16th Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 completed an investigation to see which objects and materials were opaque, translucent or transparent. Initially we did lots of recapping key scientific vocabulary such as light source, […]

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Science, Year 3

Science Ambassador Visit!

Wednesday, 16th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Our Year 4 Science Ambassadors went on a very special visit this morning, to Casting Innovations in Canklow! We saw the final stages of the recycling project that we’ve been […]

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Design & Technology, Educational Visit, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Investigating Tooth Decay in Year 4

Tuesday, 15th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 have been learning all about teeth in Science, finding out about the different teeth we have and thinking how we keep them clean and healthy. This afternoon, Class […]

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News and Events, PSHCE, Science, Year 4

Year 4 Casting Workshop

Thursday, 10th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What an amazing day we’ve had in Year 4 today, working with Mr Brooks and his team from Casting Innovations Ltd. This was the next stage of our incredible recycling […]

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Using our maths and science within our Geography

Friday, 28th Mayby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

In our Geography lessons, we’ve been analysing and comparing the changes in weather (temperature) and rainfall in who different places – South Yorkshire (specifically Sheffield) and the capital of Norway […]

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Geography, Maths, Science, Year 5

Year 5 learn about growing plants from cuttings

Thursday, 27th Mayby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

In science, class 7 have been learning how to be green fingered! They have been learning about two different types of reproduction – sexual and asexual reproduction of plants and […]

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Science, Year 5

Science Assembly

Tuesday, 25th Mayby Mr Williams Leave a comment

A brilliant assembly today with our Science Ambassadors. We completed an investigation to see who is the loudest drummer. Mr Williams, Mr Tyas, Mr Hunter and Mr Ducker all took […]

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Class 6 get crafty!

Thursday, 20th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 6 had a wonderful afternoon today, working on the next stage of our recycling project with Casting Innovations Ltd. We used a special type of clay, called Fimo, to […]

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Art, Design & Technology, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Science in Y4: Investigating Pitch and Volume

Thursday, 13th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 had lots of fun this afternoon, making their own instruments and using them to explore pitch and volume… This led to an investigation to find out the relationship […]

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Music, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Class 2 Science

Friday, 23rd Aprilby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week class 2 have been learning about wild plants! We discussed what the most common wild plants are and what they look like. Afterwards we made a tally chart […]

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Science, Year 1, Year 2

Circulatory system STEM in Class 9

Wednesday, 21st Aprilby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Today, we created a reconstruction of the way the human heart pumps in our STEM session. We found that only by using steady, rhythmic beat, we were able to pump […]

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Class 9 learn about the circulatory system

Monday, 19th Aprilby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 9 are learning about the circulatory system for Biology in Science this half term and have been using talk for writing for a tutorial on how it works.  

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News and Events, Science, Year 6

Year 4 get creative for Science Week!

Wednesday, 10th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 have made a fantastic start to Science Week, creating their own water cycles out of sandwich bags!

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Functions of a plant in Y3S

Monday, 8th Marchby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 began science week with applying their knowledge of the different parts of a plant and each of their functions by creating a step by step visual diagram […]

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Design & Technology, Science, Year 3

First day back Science in KS1

Monday, 8th Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

What a fantastic first day back for KS1! We have tried 3 science experiments today which the children thoroughly enjoyed. We created underwater fireworks, a volcanic eruption and began to […]

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Science, Year 1, Year 2

STEM Project Designs in Year 4

Wednesday, 24th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 made a fantastic start to their STEM projects today, carefully drawing and labelling their own wind turbine designs! We first made a prototype, to help us to visualise […]

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Design & Technology, Science, Year 4

Potato Power in Year 4!

Featuredby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 have had an exciting afternoon of investigation in Science today! We’ve been learning about electrical circuits and about what makes a circuit complete, so our research question today […]

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Investigating microorganisms in Y6

Tuesday, 9th Februaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Over the last 2 weeks, Class 9 have been investigating conditions that increase or restrict the development of organisms. The children observed how fungi, a type of microorganisms which we […]

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News and Events, Science

What happens when you put an egg in vinegar?

Thursday, 21st Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

The children in school have been very busy over the past two days carrying out a science investigation. They put an egg in vinegar and left it for 24 hours […]

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Science, Year 1, Year 2

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