It has been British Science Week recently and so we have had a couple of busy weeks in science!
The fun kicked off with Year 4 having a talk from Jonathan’s Jungle Roadshow. Jonathan showed us a selection of animals and told us all about their adaptations. We learned that katydids have ears in their legs and that spiders have to be held the right way round during events because they can can shoot poop further than you might imagine! We got to stroke a gecko, hold katydids and even hold a very friendly snake (called Margot). Arabella was lucky enough to get a birthday ‘kiss’ on the nose from Margot!
Year 3 had an exciting trip to the Natural History Museum in London. We enjoyed the journey – by train and underground – to the museum. While there, we learned more about volcanoes and felt what it would be like to be in an earthquake. We also looked at all of the amazing dinosaur fossils before going on our very own Dino Dig! Each group used their detective skills to work out which type of dinosaur they had excavated.
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It has been British Science Week recently and so we have had a couple of busy weeks in science!
The fun kicked off with Year 4 having a talk from Jonathan’s Jungle Roadshow. Jonathan showed us a selection of animals and told us all about their adaptations. We learned that katydids have ears in their legs and that spiders have to be held the right way round during events because they can can shoot poop further than you might imagine! We got to stroke a gecko, hold katydids and even hold a very friendly snake (called Margot). Arabella was lucky enough to get a birthday ‘kiss’ on the nose from Margot!
Year 3 had an exciting trip to the Natural History Museum in London. We enjoyed the journey – by train and underground – to the museum. While there, we learned more about volcanoes and felt what it would be like to be in an earthquake. We also looked at all of the amazing dinosaur fossils before going on our very own Dino Dig! Each group used their detective skills to work out which type of dinosaur they had excavated.
On Thursday 20th, we celebrated (slightly belatedly) British Science Week. Pupils from Reception to Year 6 used their maths skills to investigate ways of illustrating numbers. Pre- Prep classes found lots of different and creative ways to show numbers up to 150. Year 3 used a trundle wheel to measure out 1000 metres; Year 4 worked out how to ‘count’ a million grains of rice; Year 5 worked out the height of 1 million sheets of paper; and Year 6 calculated the length of 1 billion seconds.
Each of the year groups also thought about adaptations of animals in different environments. Pre-Prep girls designed their own animal (from a Plasticine ‘egg’) based on the environment in which the ‘egg’ was found. Girls in the Prep School classes wrote descriptions of plants or animals (and their adaptations) and these were used to create (by the teacher) AI generated images of their organisms. The final challenge for all of the pupils revolved around the new school building.
Finally, the pupils were tasked with solving an engineering problem, such as creating electrical circuits; creating pulley systems to move resources between the different floors; identifying the most effective water purification methods for reclaiming rainwater; investigating the most effective materials for soundproofing or ensuring non-slip surfaces on staircases; and creating sundials to show key times during the school day.
We finished off our activities with an assembly during which the pupils shared their fantastic work with the school. We also had the inaugural Great Staff Biscuit Dunk-Off… in which we found the teacher with the best biscuit dunking skills. It was a hotly fought contest but Mrs Price, Mrs Dodds and Mrs Classen all showed exceptional dunking prowess!