Year 4 Science

Electricity 

This term, children in Year 4 had a fun time learning about electricity. First, they learned about how electricity is made and gets to our homes. They looked at various devices and appliances that use electricity and then they explored various conductors and insulators to make their own switches. Finally, they had a chance to use various components to build a working circuit. 

 

Persevering with our Periscopes in Year 6 Elm Tree Class

This week in Elm Tree we used our scientific knowledge and our DT skills to build periscopes using recycled boxes. 

It was a difficult yet really fun challenge; through working in groups and showing values such perseverance, cooperation and effort, we all made contraptions, some of which were successful and worked exactly as periscopes should work. 

Super Scientists!

As part of our science topic, Light and Shadows, Year 3 have been investigating which materials would be the best for keeping us safe and visible at night time!

We tested a range of materials to see if they were reflective or not. Some materials we tested were not great; others were reflecting the light back or scattering the light in different directions. This meant these materials would be better at helping us to be visible at night time!

We ordered the materials from most reflective to least and made a decision on which to use for our new high-viz jackets! We also had lots of fun being scientists and designers!

Year 5 Maple Explore The 'Unsinkable' Titanic Scientifically

To end this academic year, Year 5 Maple are learning about the Titanic through the subjects of Humanities, English and Science.

This week, we used our scientific knowledge on the properties of materials to determine whether they will sink or float. We began by using everyday objects, such as a pencil and paper towels. We made predictions to see whether each of these objects would float or sink, before testing them out.

Afterwards, we took part in an investigation where we had to make our very own Titanic, using clay. In an aim to make it truly unsinkable, we manipulated our clay by changing the shape and structure. As scientists, we ensured we made prediction before testing our clay Titanic ships and recorded the results. We used our results to improve our Titanic to make it float.

Mini Scientists in 'Hawchard' (Orchard and Hawthorn) Aim to Recover Materials!

Orchard and Hawthorn join together again for Part 2 of our Science investigation. 

Last week, we focused on mixing materials and creating solutions; although this week we investigated how we could recover these materials using evaporation, filtration and sieving.

We were given a sieve, filter paper, a colander and a saucepan! We had to work together to investigate which of these were suitable to separate:

- coffee & water

- sugar & water 

- salt & water

- rice & water

- sand & water 

After we had tested evaporation, filtration and sieving, we concluded which were the most suitable and fastest to separate soluble and insoluble materials. 

It was great fun testing these different separation methods and enabled us to identify whether these were reversible or irreversible changes. 

Can you predict which separation method worked best for our materials?