Blog by Tag: Science

Last week there was a definite buzz about Science around the school! A whole school investigation was set called ‘Table Top Glaciers’ where children had to investigate what happened to an ice cube when it came into contact with water of different temperatures. This linked well to a discussion with…

This week, Year 5 have visited The Pig for our final sessions of the year as part of their Adopt a School programme. The children made their own vegetable pizzas in their Garden Oven. They learnt how to shape the dough before choosing what toppings they wanted to add on. After a quick fire over…

Year one explored fruit and vegetables last term. Within art, the children used their observational skills to draw and paint red peppers.

 As a class, we discussed scale (drawing the peppers larger to fill their A3 paper); oil pastels and how they resist paint (used for the seeds); highlights…

We hope that the families of Year 2 have enjoyed their clay rats? these delightful creatures were made by Year 2 as part of their Art project linked to Science; Animals including humans and English ‘That Pesky Rat’ in Term 3. the children studied texture and how to create a ‘furry’ look to their…

On Wednesday 8th January 2025 Michael Tyler from Creepy Claws brought just a few of his many rescued pets to visit year 2 as part of their learning in English; a non chronological pet report and Science; all about animals including humans. We were delighted to meet Cleo the royal python, Womble…

Last Thursday, after a long but luxurious coach trip, we landed with a ‘Big Bang’ outside The Science Museum in London. We were so excited that even gravity couldn’t keep us down.

During the day, we achieved lots of Spacetastic activities, including looking around the space exhibition with…

Year 5 have been given the challenge of designing and making toy Moon Buggies for children aged 9-10. The product specification is as follows:

• It must move using an elastic band ‘pull back’ mechanism
• Have 4 wheel and 2 axels
• The dimensions must not exceed an A4 piece of paper
• Be strong…

To begin their first art project of the academic year, the children in Year 5 have been learning about the artist’s colour wheel, colour mixing and colour theory.

The modern colour-wheel is based on Sir Isaac Newton’s experimentation with light. While Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge…

An art and science collaboration! Hurray! This project brought together the Year 3 science topic of plants and traditional (and non-traditional) botanical art. As a year group, the children were inspired by a range of artists: various botanical artists including Victoria Braithwaite, photographers…

Using inspiration from two books, Oliver’s Vegetables and Oliver’s Fruit Salad, children in Year one used their observational skills to draw from microscopic photographic images of fruit by the artist Rob Kesseler. These images are really funky and abstract. Within the lesson, the children learnt…

Year 6 will be creating relief prints inspired by the artist Georgia O’Keefe later this term. To begin the project, pupils have drawn skulls in the classroom. After the warm-up activity of drawing the skulls with a continuous line only, the pupils then took their time to observe them carefully and…

This term, Year one pupils have designed and made their own marble runs.

Within morning/class work they explored existing products (plastic marble runs) and practised using tools and joining techniques. Within their DT lessons, the classes discussed slides in the playground; gravity; the…