Challenging ourselves and learning together as part of a family
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11th Jun 2018
In Science we have been investigating how plants drink and we are looking at the question can we make white daisies/celery multi-coloured? We done an experiment using equipment e.g. celery with leaves, white daises, red and blue food colouring, glasses and water. The children filled the glasses half way with water and added red food colouring to half of them […]
21st May 2018
Hawthorn have been continuing their investigations into electricity. Today they have devised an experiment to test which materials are conductors and which are insulators.
16th May 2018
Today, Hawthorn have been learning about electricity. We have modelled how electricity flows using tennis balls as electrons. We discovered that a circuit never runs out of electrons, but if we have a gap, electrons can’t be passed on. We used this to create a switch out of paper clips and split pins, allowing us […]
9th Feb 2018
We had our second Science Day on Thursday 8 February and our focus question was ‘Do people with the biggest hands grab the most sweets?’ All classes were given sweets for the children, paper plates and large paper to record their findings. The children needed to think about the different stages of their exploration before jumping […]
6th Feb 2018
Moving on from the rocks, Hawthorn have been looking at soil. They have made close observations to see what they think soil is made of and have carried a second investigation out to see which soils around the school have the best drainage (soil permeability).
29th Jan 2018
This afternoon, 4 Hawthorn have been thinking about different ways we could classify rocks. We have learnt about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, but today we tried to think about other ways organising and classifying rocks.
