This afternoon Year 4 enjoyed investigating the properties of bubbles. At the start of the lesson the children generated lots of scientific questions that they wanted to investigate. Some of these included: Are bubbles a solid, liquid or a gas? Why do bubbles burst? Can you hold a bubble? Why Read more
Today we looked at and labeled the different parts of a flower. We learnt all about the functions of each part and why they are important. We also watched a very funny video about a lady that didn’t know how to look after the flowers in her house. She put Read more
Year 4 invited their parents and carers into class to join in with a science experiment this morning. We all had a fantastic time investigating viscosity. First, we explored a range of different liquids and their properties. We then used our maths skills to measure accurately. After this, we planned Read more
This week in school it is Eco Week. This afternoon in Willows we have been talking about what animals live in our school environment. We went on a minibeast hunt in Kayden’s Garden to see what we could find.
We have started our new topic ‘The scented garden’ this week. To begin we went into Kayden’s garden to plant some beans, we then looked at what plants need to help them to grow. On Thursday afternoon we went on a walk to Queen’s Park to see what flowers and Read more
Year 5 will be recording the growth of Carrots, raddishs and spring onions in our science lessons. We haw changed some of the variables to see if plants need more water, light or warmth to grow. Here are some pictures of what we did.
We went into Kayden’s Garden this afternoon and became gardeners! First we had to take all of the weeds out of our planter and then we planted some rainbow carrot seeds and watered them. We are keeping our fingers crossed that they start to grow soon!
Darwin is most famous for his ‘Theory of Evolution’ and how natural selection and evolution was evident during his studies of the finches of the Galapagos Islands. We looked at how we could study the differences between the beaks of each finch and how this has helped them to adapt Read more
This afternoon we made explosive rocket fuel for our experiement. We wanted to see how high rocket fuel could shoot so we mixed different amounts of coke and mentos and watched what happened. We recorded our results in a table. The children were very excited!
As part of our studies on Darwin’s arrival and studies on the Galapagos islands, we created watercolour paintings of what he would have seen as he arrived on and ventured throughout the islands. We looked at how we could effectively mix colours, use different shades of the same colour, and Read more