Curriculum Impact Tag: Science

Year 5 had an amazing time visiting Norton Priory’s space exhibition, where they took part in some exciting hands-on activities!

First, they put their engineering skills to the test by building lunar rovers using K’Nex—designing and creating vehicles ready for an adventure on the Moon!…

Year 2 are investigating how the shapes of solid objects can be stretched, twisted, bent or squashed.  They explored 3 materials - air dried clay, plasticine and Playdoh.

Knowledge: to find out how the shapes of solid objects can be squashed, twisted, stretched and bent

Skills: to use…

This morning, Year 5 had Sarah from URENCO visit us. Sarah gave the class a separating materials workshop.

Pupils took part in various activities. Pupils were comparing different substances and seeing how they themselves could separate materials using centrifugal force.

The class thoroughly…

Year 5 had an exciting science lesson today! They created model alloys using Play-Doh as the base material. By adding different additives like sand and salt, they explored how these changes affected the properties of their “alloys.” It was a hands-on experiment that helped them understand the…

Year 2 have set up an experiment to investigate how food can create gas in the stomach.  They used sodium bicarbonate and vinegar and observed over time the chemical reaction.

Knowledge: I can describe the importance of eating the right amounts of different types of food

Skills: I…

Children in Year 4 have been using everyday items to explore the human digestive system. 

This afternoon, Year 5 have been hard at work at seeing which items were magnetic an non magnetic.

Well done Year 5

This afternoon in science, Year 5 had quite the tasty experiment whilst looking at the difference in physical qualities of chocolate before and after having heat applied. We heated the chocolate up in our mouths and hands.

We also compared room temperature chocolate to frozen chocolate.

Well…

Today in science Year 5 explored what would happen when white vinegar and baking soda react to each other.

We noticed that when there was a chemical reaction between the two a gas, carbon dioxide, was created which filled the bag. We hoped for the bags to explode, but as the bags were too…

Year 2 had a lovely day at Bickley Farm, learning all about animal skeletons and bird habitats.

This afternoon Year 5 learnt the ingredients needed for a fire and then explored how the volume of a glass determines the length of time the flame will burn for when in a closed space.

Well done!

In science, Year 5 had the chance to test their eye sight.
Children tested their vision at a 1 meter distance and 3 meter.  

The purpose of this experiment was to explore how human’s eyesight degrades over time