British Science Week runs all next week at St. Albert’s Primary.  The theme for Science Week this year is journeys.  A journey does not necessarily need to be a physical journey; it can also be  about journeys of knowledge.

The pupils of St. Albert’s will be taking part in a poster competition this week on this theme. This competition is run by The British Science Association every year. This can be done as a homework task.

The pupils can make their poster about anything Science related to do with journeys. It could be journeys into space (space missions), undersea exploration journeys, journeys on land (from seed dispersal to the growth of a new tree, species of insect migrating due to climate change), animal migrations e.g the journeys salmon make to lay their eggs where they were born or wildebeest migrations, how birds navigate using the earth’s magnetic field, journeys by air and the technology that assists this, how diseases have spread across the world, journeys of knowledge for example, how objects are made and where they end up; the life cycle of animals, or the water cycle.

Here are the rules:

• Entries can be from teams of pupils (for example all doing a part of the fact finding online), or from individuals. A team entry win would result in the prize being split across the team.
• Entries should be 2D and done on A4 paper, which I will distribute to all classes.
• It should be original work, no pictures or text copied directly from the Internet. No templates.
• The best five entries from the school will be chosen and submitted.
• There are three age categories. These are Early years P1, Infants- P2-4 and Junior P5-7. So they will be competing with those of similar age and ability.
• Posters can be made as a homework task or in school.

Posters must include the following information (entrant details can be on the back of the poster):

• entrant first name (all names if a team) and entrant age (all ages if a team)
• age category (of the oldest team member)
• school/youth group name and address

The closing date for entries is Friday 5th April, but I would need all entries for judging the best five in by Wed 27th March at the latest.

The prizes– Guinness World Records is offering a very special prize this year for the Junior category – the chance to spend a day in the life of the Guinness World Records team at the global headquarters!  The winning Junior student (and accompanying adult) will be able to see with their own eyes how the team review evidence and verify new records for extraordinary journeys. Prizes in other categories are yet to be confirmed.