Fabulous Filtration

This week has been very hands on across all areas of the curriculum; we have enjoyed some topic work outside where we are creating our own marvellous mazes similar to the one Theseus navigated his way around when killing the Minotaur. We used all sorts to create numerous pathways which Mr Reed had to try and find his way out. Our learning this week took us to an even more terrifying creature known as Medusa, We found out how she became such a famous mythological creature. Mr Reed has assured us that next week she will meet a gruesome end.

We were thrilled when Mr Reed told us that during our Science lesson we would be making a mess!! He was not kidding, we were given the chance to turn tap water into the dirtiest water we could using mud, leaves, stones, grass and twigs. The transformation was impressive having started with tap water it now looked like the muddiest puddle ever.

We then were given various objects which we could use to make a water filter, this was great fun and in our groups we made our decisions based on what we knew about filters. With our filters made Mr Reed pored a certain amount of the muddy water into the filter and allowed the water to pass through our chosen materials. It is fair to say some filters were better than others but given the opportunity to repeat the task we were all able to say what we would do differently given the chance.