Awe and Wonder in Science
Every Wednesday afternoon Miss Hattersley visits a different class to teach them science whilst their class teacher has release time to work on the subject they lead. There are only two rules – lessons must be in science and they must be fun – making the children go Wow!
The idea behind the activities is to give the children the opportunity to take part in practical, fun investigations that encourage the children to want to be scientists.
Science Week 2021
This year for British Science Week we had a whole school competition to find out which biscuit was the best ‘dunker’. The winner was to receive a brand new Tablet! Tesco kindly donated the packets of biscuits so every child would get a turn to dunk and eat a biscuit... read more
Science Videos
Miss Hattersley has been working hard at home to create science videos showing you all kinds of experiments you can try at home: Viscosity Race Have you ever wondered how fast ketchup can run? Do you want to know if honey is faster than salad cream? Then try... read more
Y3 Things that float, glide and fly
Year 3 enjoyed a fun afternoon with Miss Hattersley talking about things that float, glide and fly. They looked at how a helicopter stays up in the air and made their own paper helicopter. We discovered that the smaller helicopters spin more quickly to the ground... read more
Y6 Bird adaptations
Year Six explored bird adaptations by investigating which foods different bird beaks are best suited to eating. They had six stations they had to move around and at each station their bird had to eat as much of the food as it could in one minute. At some stations it... read more
4BT Investigating forces
4BT have been investigating forces and practicing their scientific inquiry skills by building and testing and improving their own lollipop stick catapults. We discovered that the more lollipop sticks you add to your catapult the further your pom pom will fly. This is... read more
3JN learning about Gravity
3JN have been learning about gravity and testing their scientific enquiry skills using toast! They spent the afternoon investigating whether toast will land butter side up or butter side down when you drop it and discovered it depends on which way up it is before you... read more
3A exploring forces & making changes
3A had great fun exploring forces and making changes. They made and tested their own paper rockets and worked out what improvements they could make to their... read more
Learning about the heart
There was a great deal of excitement in year 6 this week when the children deepened their learning about the heart by dissecting a lamb heart. We overcame our fears, extended our learning and saw all our heart facts in action. We were able to find and feel the... read more
Investigating air resistance in science
4BT worked with Miss Hattersley this week to investigate air resistance in science. They made their own paper helicopters and launched them by standing on the tables! There was then some great discussion on how they could adapt and change their helicopter to make it... read more
Uv investigation
Year 6 became space scientists exploring which materials best block UV light and could be used to protect astronauts in their space suits. They learned that UV is a type of non visible light from the sun which can damage our skin and cause cancer. We used UV sensitive... read more
Learning all about invertebrates
This week in club we loved learning all about invertebrates. We all made an octopus each and tried to see if it could fit through a tiny gap in its cave. We then added some bones to see if it could still get... read more
1S to the rescue
Disaster! – the Lego men had been trapped in the ice by the evil Ice-Man… 1S bravely rescued them from the kitchen with a little help from Miss Hattersley and brought them into the safety of their classroom. They then used their science skills to... read more
Science week 2019
Parklands’ Pond!! This year we were lucky enough to be awarded a grant from the British Science Council. We used this grant to build a pond on the school grounds. The pond is a fantastic resource that can be used by every year group to help them in their scientific... read more
Investigating Candy Canes
3JN and Miss Hattersley investigated yesterday what happens when you put a candy cane in different liquids. We made predictions about what we thought would happen then we put a candy cane in each of 4 different liquids: hot water, cold water, vinegar and oil. We... read more
Paper engineering in year 3
Year 3 worked with Miss Hattersley to investigate how to make the best paper helicopters. They discussed and agreed that the best helicopter would be the one that fell most slowly and steadily. They then tested different size helicopters and helicopters made from... read more
Year 2 explore chemical reactions
Year 2 had a great science session exploring what happens when you mix vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. They carried out an investigation to find out if adding more bicarbonate of soda creates a bigger reaction and discovered it... read more
1S learn about bats and owls
1S enjoyed learning all about bats and owls and how they hunt, they played bat and moth to learn about echo location, tried using their sense of smell to guess different scents and played different owl games to see if their hearing was as good as an owl. Did you know... read more
Ewww what is that?
6D were handed some strange furry objects in their science session, with the question “What are these and who makes them?” They were relieved to discover that they were not poo but in fact owl pellets. They discovered that owls swallow their prey whole and... read more
Paper Helicopters
5N investigated air resistance when they made their own paper helicopters, trying out different materials to see which ones flew the... read more
Can 1S rescue the jewels from Ice Man?
Ice Man has frozen Miss Hattersley’s jewels inside blocks of ice and 1S need to figure out the quickest way to get them back! We investigated how quickly the ice would melt in different places with the ice block left on the radiator melting the... read more
Clean Air with 2MS
2MS made their own superheroes and helped with the Leeds City Council campaign for clean air by encouraging people to leave their cars at home and cycle or walk to school... read more
Do more minibeasts live in the RP garden or the Nursery Garden?
That was the question we set KS2 this term, we used spotter sheets to record how many different types of bugs and insects we could find in each habitat and compared the results to see which habitat supported more life. We found more minibeasts in the RP garden but... read more
Can cabbage teach you about acids and bases?
4C found out it can. They made an indicator solution using red cabbage and warm water and used it to find out if different substances were acids or bases. An indicator changes colour when you add an acid or a base. Some of the things we tried surprised us – did... read more
Floating Sweets?
In January 5N investigated which sweets float and which ones sink. They discovered that the denser sweets sank but the ones with more air holes in tended to float. They tried changing the shape of marshmallows to see if they could make them sink. It was harder than it... read more
4C try out Catapults
4C enjoyed trying out lollipop stick catapults and investigating how far they could make their pom pom travel if they added in extra lollipop sticks. It was great for practising our measuring skills... read more
Chromatography with Year 2
2MS had to solve the mystery of who stole the skittles… Miss Hattersley had a note from the thief saying they had eaten all the skittles but she didn’t know who wrote it. We gathered together all the black pens we could find and tested them using... read more
Exploring STEM through stories with Year 1
Year One looked at the story of the 3 little pigs and then using sweets and cocktail sticks built our own houses to withstand the Big Bad Wolf (Miss Hattersley’s hairdryer) blowing them down. We’re pleased to report that all the houses stayed standing up,... read more
Catapults Wow in Year 5
5 N explored forces by building their own lollipop stick catapults. We tried adding more lollipop sticks to our catapults (so that they pulled their load back further) and investigated how that affected the distance our pom poms travelled. What do you think we found... read more
4C prove to be fantastic scientists
This week 4c worked with Miss Hattersley to explore chemical reactions. Outside we tried add mento mints to bottles of coke and watched what happened when the carbon dioxide in the cola attached itself to the mints causing the cola to erupt from the bottle. Back... read more
Going batty about bats in Year 1
Miss Hattersley joined 1S on Wednesday afternoon to share with them some cool science activities. Year one are reading Owl babies at the moment and learning about nocturnal animals, so Miss Hattersley themed their session all around bats. They started by listening to... read more
Volcanoes erupt in Year 4
Year 4 have been making things erupt this week in Science with Miss Hattersley. After watching Miss Hattersley make cola erupt by adding mentoes before learning about acids and alkalies and making their own eruptions using bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. They... read more