Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
A high-quality science education provides the foundations for understanding the world through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics. Science has changed our lives and is vital to the world’s future prosperity, and all pupils should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science. Through building up a body of key foundational knowledge and concepts, pupils should be encouraged to recognise the power of rational explanation and develop a sense of excitement and curiosity about natural phenomena. They should be encouraged to understand how science can be used to explain what is occurring, predict how things will behave, and analyse causes. National Curriculum for Science, purpose of study
Summer term fun in Riley Class
We've had a jam-packed first half of our summer term here in Riley Class! Our topic for this term is Explorers. With that we've been learning all about famous explorers, discovering new things and exploring the town of London. Hindu Temple Trip Last week we visited...
Mudchute Farm
Today Kapoor and Goldsworthy classes went to Mudchute Farm. We got the DLR from Langdon Park all the way to Mudchute and walked through the woods to the farm. It was a very long way - our longest school journey so far! After surviving the first rain shower and...
Year 5 Greenwich Observatory Trip
Yesterday, year 5 were lucky enough to spend to the day at the Greenwich Observatory. We experienced many workshops, learnt lots about our solar system and explored space virtually in the planetarium. Sharing our knowledge about the Sun, Earth and Moon with workshop...
Out of this world
Year 5 brought learning to life his week by acting out the movement of the planes in our Solar System. Firs, we learnt the names and order of the planets from closest to furthest from the sun. Then children stood in this order and walked around the 'sun', representing...
Steam Day Challenge in Riley Class
On Friday, Riley class took part in a challenge to see who could engineer the strongest bridge. The mission was to make a bridge which could carry as many books as possible. The length of the bridge was 20cm: armed with only a pile of paper and some masking tape, the...
Magnetic Mazes
Today to celebrate STEAM day all of the children in year 1 were able to do 3 amazing activities. In Kapoor Class all of the children experimented with magnets and created amazing magnetic mazes for minibeasts. The children understood how magnets attract some metals...
Steam Day in Hadid Class
Art - Spring has sprung. Hadid class took to the great outdoors to create some wonderful water-colours of our gorgeous garden area. Engineering - What a sticky situation! Combining teamwork with spaghetti and marshmallows, Hadid class raced to see who could build the...
Cracking coding and steam day clay
This week is Science week and in Lichtenstein class we have been doing many steam day activities including coding and experimenting with solutions. For coding we were editing a Witch and a Wizard using Scratch and added speech and text. It was difficult at first but...
Future Engineers
As part of STEAM Day Van Gogh class chose the E in the word and took the monumental task of designing and building a structure that is strong enough to hold the weight of as many books as possible. How did they get on with this challenge? The children worked in teams...
Full STEAM ahead!
It's science week so we have been participating in STEAM (Science, technology, engineering, art and maths) activities throughout the week. We started the week with some science experiments relating to materials, their properties and changes of states of matter...
