Blog by Tag: Science

This week the children have enjoyed engaging in sensory water play.  Intended to support fine motor skills and develop mathematical and scientific concepts, the children have focused on this form of play for extended periods.

The children impressed us all with their creative and teamwork skills this week.  Working together and using their own ideas, they designed and made a large and imaginative birthday cake as part of their play dough and role-play.  All topped off with a rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’.  What a…

The children are continuing to explore with clay. They have all made and painted their favourite minibeasts which we have displayed in our window. 

Year 1- Science-Plants 

We have been learning how to identify and describe the basic structure of trees. We talked about deciduous and evergreen trees and how they are different. The children enjoyed looking at the different tree rings outdoors and exploring the different shapes. 

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When we returned after lunch today imagine our surprise when we noticed some special visitors to our garden!  The ducks didn’t hang around long after we went to play and they waddled off down towards Year 2 but we were very excited to see them. 

The children have been using our new bamboo pipes to experiment with cause and effect using a ball.  They use teamwork and communication skills to make sure the ball didn’t roll off!

The children have shown a real interest in animals since reading 'Silly Doggy' by Adam Stower so we set up a Vet Station with bays and equipment to help look after our sick and poorly pets. The children are having lots of back and forth conversations describing what has happened to their pet and…

Nursery had an amazing day at Martin Mere in almost perfect weather conditions, we spotted a variety of birds, went for a ‘Wild Walk’, explored the play areas and took part in a pond dipping workshop.  It was exciting to see all the new experiences and learning taking place. There were lots of…

Another lovely day! The children had a ball and were so good.  We completed all the usual activities and the children particularly enjoyed feeding all of the animals.  

Another great day at the farm.  We managed to squeeze in so much.  Feeding lambs, goats, sheep and a cow.  We met lots of different critters and were all very brave holding and stroking them.  The children enjoyed a packed lunch before going on a train ride.  A quick play in the park and it was…

This week for snack, the children made their own sandwiches. They practised spreading butter as well as cutting and chopping different fillings. We talked about the colours and flavours of foods and where our foods come from. 

Today we made our own fact files about the recent Artemis II exploration around the moon.

We watched some videos and couldn’t believe how brave the four astronauts were.

Penny D 5A, ‘I enjoyed watching the clips of Artemis II and seeing the astronauts answer the questions from other school…