Blog by Tag: Science

What an incredible day we had at Rosliston Forestry Centre!

The children were full of excitement as we became real-life nature detectives, exploring a range of different habitats around the centre in search of minibeasts. Armed with nets, brushes and magnifiers, we carefully searched high and…

 Willow Class tested different circuits to see if it would light their bulbs.

Our classroom has been full of excitement as we turned into young scientists today… with a wriggly twist!

We created our very own wormeries to help us answer the question: what do worms do to the soil? The children were so curious and couldn’t wait to get started.

First, we worked together…

This week for Art Week, Maple Class have been getting creative outdoors by making beautiful minibeast nature suncatchers – and what a wonderful link to our new Science topic on micro-habitats and minibeasts!

The children began by exploring our outdoor area, carefully collecting natural…

During Busy Bee time in our outdoor learning area, the children made an exciting discovery – a friendly Common Toad hopping along the path!

The children watched carefully as the toad jumped across the path and headed towards the tyres, where it cleverly hid amongst the leaves. We talked about…

Oak class have been exploring electricity and resistance in circuits. The children were set several challenges to see who could make their bulbs the brightest.

Willow had a very creative science lesson making pan flutes.
We used 8 different lengths of straws and stuck them together. When we blew them we'd created an instrument that could achieve different pitches and we were able to explain why.

In Science this week, Maple Class travelled all the way to the forests of Tanzania without leaving our school grounds!

We have been learning about the famous scientist Jane Goodall. To truly understand her work, the children became scientists for the afternoon. We grabbed our books and…

In our science lesson today we were investigating how volume changes with distance.

What happens to the volume of a sound as the distance from the source increases and decreases? Let’s find out.

Our scientists in Maple Class worked together this week for a massive investigation. We wanted to find how many of each pet are in our class, and we used some brilliant scientific methods to get our answers!

Step 1: Sorting and Counting with Cubes

We began by using concrete materials. Each…

We have been learning how the string carries the sound waves, vibrates the cup and vibrates their ear drum for us to hear what our friends said.The string is a solid so the sound waves travel quickly.

After a discussion we recorded our findings in our books.

 In Science we were experimenting with different ways to make sounds and recording which part was vibrating.