This week  some of the parents at our school have come into class to discuss their jobs in the STEM industry. We learnt about what a statistician and researcher does which was fascinating! We asked lots of questions and found out that subjects like maths and science are really important for these kinds of jobs.

Later on in the week we continued with our science topic on forces by developing our scientific understanding of static electricity. We learnt about electrons and atoms which is how electricity flows and what happens to cause static electricity.

“We now know that static electricity is caused when an electron is knocked off course and creates a positive atom and a negative atom. This means the opposite atoms attract and cause static electricity.” Liam

We explored this through a range of balloon activities such as bending water, moving an object, sticking the balloon to the wall and making hair attract to the balloon. We can now scientifically explain why these things were happening with the balloon and enjoyed developing our knowledge of static electricity.