Science

This week Year 4 have investigated the digestive process by experimenting with breaking down bread. Although this experiment was messy, the children learnt lots of key terminology. 

Despite being at Ufton Court, Year 4 have investigated sundials and particle size. They created paper sundials inside and used torches to understand how the shadows are created to tell the time. When the weather was finally brighter, the children used chalk to draw outside sundials so they can take Read more…

Year 6 explored making a ten second timer as part of science week.  Could we create a water timer or marble run that timed ten seconds? Some of us were more accurate with others; the nearest timer was 10.21 seconds!

Year 1 carried out an experiment to see if jelly sets slower or faster when it has fruit with it. We had 2 pots of  jelly, one with fruit  and one plain. We looked at our jelly pots each hour and after 4 hours it had eventually set. We concluded Read more…