States of Matter: observations over time and comparative testing.

By Mr S MORGAN21st April 2021

This week, Y4 have been designing and setting up a number of experiments to see how materials change over time. They have been looking at how different materials can melt, freeze, evaporate and condensate. They have made their predictions and have already gathered some results!

What will happen to the water in the uncovered glass? What will happen to ice cubes at room temperature? What will happen to ice in a fridge? Y4 are finding out! 

Children also conducted a comparative test to see if the mass of an ice cube affects the time it takes to change state. Most correctly predicted the result!

Grace and Alisha predicted the ice cube with the greatest mass would take longer to become a liquid! 

Year 2 Are Learning about Habitats

By Miss P STATHERS21st April 2021

Year 2 have started a new Science Topic; ‘Living Things and Their Habitats.’ First of all we learned what a habitat was and then we looked at a Polar Habitat, River Habitat, Ocean Habitat and a Forest Habitat.  After that we sorted animals into the correct habitats!

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Growing plants🌱

By S Wilkinson21st April 2021

The children in F1 have been busy planting lots of different flowers and vegetables. Today we had a look at our plants and could see how much they had grown since we planted them last week. We are choosing a star grower of the week and our first star grower is Harlow! Well done Harlow! 🌱

 

‘Egg’citing news!

By Mrs J MARSON20th April 2021

Our first chick has hatched in F2 this afternoon. We heard it cheeping in the incubator. So we’ve called it Cheepy. We are very excited.
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Y4 Scientists

By Mrs H HEBDEN28th March 2021

The Y4 Scientist set up an ‘egg-speriment’ to explore the effects of various drinks on teeth enamel. We made predictions and were surprised to learn, when we looked at the nutritional labels, that the orange and apple juice contained more sugar than the fizzy drinks!

Although it made our classroom a little smelly, we regularly examined the eggs to record and note the changes. We all agreed that brushing our teeth was essential when we saw these effects and concluded that the worst drink for our teeth was the fresh orange juice!

Weather Symbols!

By Sophie Dale25th March 2021

In Science we have been observing and describing the weather that is associated with the seasons by observing the weather in spring.

 

We looked at a variety of different weather symbols and discussed what they each represented. We then took a look outside and observed that it was cloudy. All week we have been gathering and recording data such as the weather, temperature and rainfall related to Spring. We are excited to compare this to Summer.

 

I then challenged the children to come to the front of the class and using the map of the United Kingdom present a weather forecast. We looked at video examples beforehand. We then re-capped the 4 countries that made up the United Kingdom: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We then identified Hull, we know this is a city not a country.

Here is Harvey presenting the weather for us! He did a fabulous job and even put on a ‘professional voice’. A weatherman in the making? Great job year 1!

 

A happy Forest School day 🍃🌿🍃

By Mrs L READ16th March 2021

It’s wonderful having all of our children back at school and carrying on with our Forest School.

First activity… mud painting!

After donning our wetsuits and wellies, we set about collecting twigs, herbs and mud.

The herb we collected was rosemary, we gave it a good sniff… it smelt delightful.

We then attached it to a twig to make our brush… it was a little tricky for some of us, but we helped each other.

We were so proud of the brushes we had made.

Then we scooped, stirred and mixed our mud with bubbly water (which also smelt fabulous!) and added magic coloured powder to make our amazing mud paint.

We painted with the mud, it was different to our usual paint but we liked the patterns we could make with it.

Our fabulous creations!