Last week, was British Science Week and what an exciting time we had! Children were involved in lots of activities around school, including assemblies, at lunchtimes and during their regular science lessons, as well as taking part in live, online lessons with hundreds of other schools.
This year’s theme was ‘Curiosity: What’s your question?’ which was very much encouraging children to be asking questions about anything and everything in the world around them!
Assemblies focused on key scientists, including Tim Peake and Albert Einstein.
At lunchtimes, our science ambassadors welcomed children to their classes to take part in science-related colouring, animal word searches, colouring scientist bookmarks, guessing objects from images taken under a microscope and looking at real objects under a microscope (that one of our science ambassadors kindly brought into school).
Have a go and see how many objects you can identify from the microscope images (answers available on request).
Microscope images
During their regular science lessons, children were involved in a crime scene investigation to work out (from gathered evidence) who had stolen the after-school club biscuits!
Children visited the crime scene and were introduced to the crime and what they needed to do to solve it. There were 4 suspects and children analysed ink from a ransom note (using chromatography), examined a footprint and fibres found at the crime scene and analysed biscuit crumbs left at the scene to help them decide which of our suspects was guilty. (See individual class pages for further photos).
There was lots of accusations and speculation during the sessions but children had to prove who had committed the crime, not just guess!
On Thursday, KS1 took part in The BIG Farming QUESTion Show, a live, online session exploring four curious questions sent in by pupils:
- How do you train a sheepdog?
- What do all the buttons in your tractor do?
- When a cow poos, where does it go?
- How do farmers care for the wildlife on their farm?
On Friday, KS2 took part in a live, online lesson answering the question ‘How does Science turn Fields into Feasts?’ The session explored how farmers, scientists and chefs work together to transform fields into the feasts to celebrate Eid al‑Fitr, while uncovering the science behind every ingredient.
A massive ‘thank you’ to the science ambassadors – your enthusiasm and commitment was amazing and the week wouldn’t have happened without you!
Dr. Roberts
