To solve this question we used two different flavours of mints and diet cola and normal cola. We found out that it didnt matter what mint you used but that the diet cola went higher.
Year 6 and Reception shared in a beautiful Lenten prayer service based on the Lenten value of TRUST this afternoon.
We reflected on a piece of scripture from the Gospel according to Matthew which highlighted to us how trust is an important ingredient in our relationships with others and, most importantly, with God.
Well done to Isla, Bridget and Josie who planned, prepared a delivered this very special time with their prayer friends. They have given us the mission going forth to spend time together in the prayer garden to talk about who we trust and why trust is so important.
We made some predictions over where chocolate would melt quickest. Some of the children thought that they needed to be in the fridge, overs thought or in a cupboard and other children suggested on the heater. We found out that the chocolate needed to be somewhere hot. the white chocolate and the dark chocolate melted first. The milk chocolate took longer because we think it has more sugar in it. The children then had a piece of chocolate and decided we must be warm because it melted in their mouths.
This afternoon, Year 1 and 2 created snow fluff using a mixture of shaving cream and corn starch before seeing her could fly their rocket ‘mice’ the furthest:
Year 3 and 4 discovered which nappy is the most absorbant and therefore the best to buy and investigated whether the weight of an egg affects the speed it travels:
Year 5 and 6 have been busy dunking biscuits and meeting some new less-than-furry friends:
Reception have been exploring the colours of a rainbows using skittles and investigating where chocolate melts the quickest:
Nursery have been making raisins dance in lemon and Gummy Bears grow bigger:
Food experiments
In our first experiment we used Skittles to make a rainbow pattern.
The children thought about how the colours appeared and spread. They realised that the colour dye had come off the bottom of the sweets and spread in the water.
This week, throughout the afternoons, each class will be visiting different teachers and their classrooms to explore their chosen ‘Big Question’.
This afternoon, Year 1 and 2 joined in with the fun as they found out which nappy is the most absorbant and therefore the best to buy and investigated whether the weight of an egg affects the speed it travels:
Year 3 and 4 created snow fluff using a mixture of shaving cream and corn starch before seeing her could fly their rocket ‘mice’ the furthest:
Reception checked back on their flowers from yesterday and to their surprise, two out of the three flowers they had added food colouring to were starting to change colours! They also set up a new investigation into which drink is the most damaging for our teeth by adding chalk (acting as our teeth!) to different popular drinks…
Nursery were experimenting what happens when they mix food colouring, milk and washing up liquid – ask them what they found out!
We are super excited for the rest of the week!
We thought about how we could test which drink was the best for our teeth. We used chalk because we talked about it being similar to teeth in structure. The children all gave their predictions to what was going to be the best and what would happen to the chalk.
We tested the chalk in milk, water, cola and orange juice. When we put the chalk into the cola and it fizzed some of the children that had originally thought cola would be best changed their minds.
We are going to check the results later in the week.
What a fabulous start to British Science Week 2020!
We started our morning with a whole school assembly to remind everyone how diverse our planet is as that is the theme of our week!
This week, throughout the afternoons, each class will be visiting different teachers and their classrooms to explore their chosen ‘Big Question’.
So far, Year 3 and 4 have been busy testing which biscuit is the best for dunking and exploring the habitats of a variety of animals:
Year 5 and 6 have been finding out which nappy is the most absorbant and therefore the best to buy and investigating whether the weight of an egg affects the speed it travels:
Reception have also been busy setting up an experiment using food colouring to find out how flowers survive once they’ve been cut:
We are super excited for the rest of the week!
We set out to solve this problem.
The children came up with lots of ideas. Finn said that the flowers suck up the water in their stems. James said they need water and light. We talked about how we could test this. We put a flower in water in the light, one in the light without water, one in the dark with water and one in the dark without water. We are going to check these during the week.
We have put some food colouring into water to see if the flowers do take up the water through their stems. We discussed what we might see and which colour might change the flowers first. We cant wait to find out!
The children really enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day in their favourite character costumes or their pyjamas. We entered the competition to draw a character from our favourite book and designed and made a book mark. Well done to George and Evie who were our class runner ups and to Aine who won with her picture of Ariel.
Next week is Science Week. We will be conducting a science experiment every day and dressing up in mad science outfits on Friday. Keep a look out online to see what we are experimenting with each day.
