Science Week

SCIENCE WEEK

Children appreciating the STEM role models in their community! Thank you!

Above: How to extract DNA in 3 easy steps! Below: Discovering new medicine!

Science Week Celebrations and Narrations

We started off our Science Week with a fascinating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Assembly organised by our talented STEM Ambassador, Mrs Batchelor. The children were given two presentations by two doctors of science from our own community who shared the amazing impact their own STEM learning had caused!

Dr. Senderovich is a molecular Biologist working on T-Cells to support developing new cancer treatments. He showed the children how to extract DNA from a banana live on stage!

Dr. Said's research is in exploring and identifying new medicines. He taught us all about the likely spaces we might find new medicines - who knew fungi and moulds were so critical to our wellbeing! Thank you Mrs Batchelor, Dr. Senderovich and Dr. Said for their fascinating and inspirational presentations. I wonder if many children in the hall will reference this experience when someone asks them why they became doctors and scientists in the future!

There has been a range of exciting engaging hands on science exploration and learning this week. A huge thank you to Ms Reile, Science Leader, for supporting all the year groups to have an amazing opportunity to explore.

Year 5 propagating vegetables

As part of our Science topic, 5H learnt how plants can grow from sources other than seeds. To experience this we cut off the top of a vegetable, balanced it on top of a cup filled with water. We have already seen shoots growing from the top of the vegetables. Once they are large and strong enough we will grow them in the soil.

Year 6 Create A Plant Competition:

Year 6 also took part in the Create-a-Plant competition. The rules were that each group of children were only allowed four sheets of scrap card or paper from the recycling box in our classroom (this really limited the colour options in out classroom!). The children had one hour to create an imaginative plant using only paper/card and scissors. No glue or sellotape was allowed! Here are some of 6H's outcomes..

Year 4 - Investigation - Will the flower change colour?

Year 4 have been reading about how water travels up the stem of a plant in a process called 'capillary action'. We have predicted it will change blue colour because we dyed the water blue. We are still waiting to find out if this will happen.

Year 3 Science Week

This week in Year 3 we have continued to learn all about rocks. We learnt about Mary Anning the famous fossil hunter and created a fact file about her. We learnt about soil and how soil is formed in the story 'Roger Rock'. We also had the opportunity to use microscopes again to look at a range of objects to understand how these would be used in a laboratory. One of the science week tasks involved making a plant using paper. This was challenging as you had to think carefully about how to fold the paper and make the shape of a plant!