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British Science Week – Willows

We have loved British science week this week; we have been learning about different scientists and the different types of scientists, we have looked at ‘smashing stereotypes’ in science and how anybody could be a scientist. We also learnt about connections and discussed how we can connect with others, we talked about how we could communicate with people across the world. We then did an experiment; we made plastic cup telephones and played games to Read more

By Miss Horrocks, ago

British Science Week

This week we have been talking about British science week. The children have discussed what science is and how it is all around us. Reception have been learning about flowers. We have been naming different flowers and learning the different parts of a flower. One of our favourite flowers are the tulips! We have been very busy this week investigating what flowers and plants need to grow. The children came up with their own ideas Read more

By Mrs Marsh, ago

Emotions in the Easter story

At Forest School today, Year 5 read the Easter story around the fire circle. We discussed the emotions that were felt at different points in the story. The children went on a scavenger hunt around the area and found 18 different flash cards showing different emotions. The children then got busy making emotions and faces out of clay. We also used a square lashing knot to make a cross. The children also made emotions using Read more

By Mrs Edyvean, ago

Water-powered Rockets!!!

As part of British Science Week, Year 6 created water-powered rockets, looking at energy stores, how energy changes from one store to another, and how rockets are designed to fly more efficiently. After designing and building our rockets, we part-filled them with water and used a pump to build up pressure, eventually forcing the water out of the bottom of the bottle, and firing the rocket into the air.

By Mr Hignett, ago

British Science Week 2023 – connections

This week children across school have celebrated British Science Week. This years theme is ‘connections’. The children have explored the topic connections discussing how we are connected to each other, how we can connect and even thinking about how we are connecting to other countries. In year 6 the children focused on a scientist called Mae Jemison, who was the first woman of colour to venture into space, after discussing stereotypes within science. She is Read more

By Mrs Alderson, ago

Finding Missing Angles

Year 6 looked at solving problems by finding missing angles. We had 16 envelopes with different levels of challenging questions, earning more points by challenging ourselves to try and tackle the most difficult questions. Our work to solve the problems was excellent and we were really able to demonstrate our angle knowledge.  

By Mr Hignett, ago

British Science Week- Parachute Investigation

For British Science Week we investigated air resistance to link to our topic of Forces and the theme Connections. We looked at what the purpose of a parachute was and how the force of air resistance slows it down. We used a range of different materials to see which material was the most effective to allow the air to push up on the parachute and slow it down. We recorded our results in a table.

By Miss Wilde, ago

British Science week- Animal Hotels

During British Science week we have learnt all about different types of scientists and were amazed at how many amazing jobs there are that involve Science. Year 2 were given the task of creating animal/ bug hotels. We were very lucky to have some fantastic Year 6 children to come and help us. With their help, we decided whether to make an environment for an animal to hibernate or a great place for bugs to Read more

By Miss Lomax, ago

British Science Week assembly

              We kicked off British Science Week with a fantastic assembly from our science ambassadors. They told us about the theme for this year which is ‘connections’ and told us all about the fun activities we will be doing in school with our class teachers! What a great way to start British Science Week and a big well done to all of our science ambassadors.

By Miss Wilde, ago