Junior Science

The Junior School held a week-long series of Science events with the aim of promoting the relevance of science, engineering and technology in learning and in our everyday lives. The different themes and related activities for each year group were as follows:

• Year 3 Earth with special focus on natural disasters: making a volcano, a windmill and a water tornado in a bottle.

• Year 4 Gravity and Atmosphere: making water rockets and hot air balloons, collapsing cans and sucking eggs into conical flasks.

• Year 5 Life: making Plaster of Paris fossils, pacing out a toilet roll timeline of Earth’s history, and planting seeds.

• Year 6 Energy: investigating the energy available from different vegetable oils, finding out how nuclear energy works and looking at how one type of energy can be transformed into another.

Besides the multitude of lesson-based activities, there was an array of guest speakers and Science-based races, such as:

• A fun science lecture by Dr Szydlo

• A visit from Tropical Inc. with a variety of small animals, including a meerkat, python, desert hedgehog, parrot and skunk

• The annual egg dropping competition

• Building sweet and sticky towers

• Designing the ultimate paper airplane

• Science spellings

• An ‘Energy Efficient House’ poster competition

The pupils had a successful week of informative and informal investigations and fun learning. Thanks to Ms Lloyd for organising the event. VN