Science

Summer 1:

The children will be looking at the following topics this half-term:

Year 1 – Plants

Year 2 – Living Things and their Habitats

Year 3 – Animals including Humans

Year 4 – Living Things and their Habitats

Year 5 – Earth and Space

Year 6 – Animals including Humans

Science Week Pictures and Video

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Science week is finally here! This year, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Lunar landing on the moon we will be building rockets! Bottle rockets.

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As well as building bottle rockets, the children will also be learning about the contributions towards space exploration by female scientist including the following:

Valentina Tereshkova

Peggy Whitson

Katherine Johnson

This is to help promote STEM subjects in a field that is traditionally dominated by men.

Science Week 2019 promises to be a fun-filled, exciting informative journey. Stay tuned to the website for more details to come.

This year we will be looking at our teaching of science to see where we can make further improvements. We aim to teach science as practically as possible because we believe this is how children learn best. Also in the summer term we will be organising a science themed week culminating in an exhibition to parents and carers.

Children will be focusing on working scientifically to answer questions about the world around them. They will do this by asking questions, collecting and analysing data, developing explanations, solving problems and seeking and using evidence to test their ideas and answer questions. The children will be working scientifically through exploration using all of their senses.

Please take every opportunity to encourage your child to practise these skills at home.