Science – P6.24 Blog 2023/24

March 16, 2023March 17, 2023

Even More STEM! 🧬

We have been enjoying STEM week in P5.17 and on Wednesday we had a visit from University of Strathclyde PhD students! They spoke to us about their experiences in Forensic Chemistry 🧪 we then helped to solve a mystery using Chromatography 👀 And played Periodic Table Bingo ✔️

In the afternoon we completed a Paper Chain Challenge in our houses where we were given a single piece of paper, scissors and glue and we worked together in groups to try and make the longest chain ⛓️

Today we worked together on the Jelly Tot Structure challenge where we had to use our engineering and design skills to build a structure from jelly tots and cocktail sticks! We then tested their strength by seeing how many books our tower could hold 📚

March 13, 2023March 14, 2023

STEM Week 🧪

We had a busy start to STEM Week today which began with a workshop from SmartSTEM 🧪 we heard all about careers in STEM and then completed a paper plate tower competition. We were given 5 plates, scissors and cello-tape and worked together in groups to build the tower as high as possible 👀

This afternoon we learnt all about the Mars Ingenuity helicopter 🚁 we then made paper helicopters of our own and tested them through flight. We watched the propellers in motion as they descended 🤩

May 19, 2021

Outdoor investigating and analysing

Today we explored a large area of the school grounds in search of mini beasts. We began with playing some games and noting down the names of mini beasts we knew.

After that we went on to search for some and took some photos of them where they seemed to enjoy living.

Finally we collected some to have a closer look and analysed them using a magnifying glass. We were all so curious and delighted at what detail we could see!

November 4, 2020

Observing leaves

What a great day we spent observing the colour and texture of a variety of leaves. Carefully scrambling through the trees we spent time looking and focusing on the details of the leaves around us. We then used some of them to make some really interesting patterns before doing some beautiful leaf rubbings. Listen to the squeals of delight as we redistributed our collected leaves too!

The joy of redistributing leaves !