Science

Lego STEM Workshop – Year 5

On Monday 4th December, Year 5 took part in a Lego STEM session with Ian from Junior Robotics. During this time, they learnt how to follow instructions to create a moving cam mechanism with Lego pieces, and then coded it using scratch-based system to recreate a drumming monkey. All children were fantastically engaged [...]

Children Challenging Industry

This half term, Class 9 took part in 'Children Challenging Industry' with Mrs Mawer and Miss Boyeson (University of York). This STEM programme consisted of three problem-solving science sessions and a site visit to Saltend Chemicals Park. The children were presented with three potential problems (Leaky Pipes; Filter Fun and Cooling Coils), which [...]

Visit to Howsham Mill

Year 6 had a visit to Howsham Mill, near Malton, on the 21st and 22nd February, which is a renovated mill, now used to generate electricity. The activities included learning about renewable energy, map work around the island, building a working water wheel, viewing the machinery which generated power, learning about the wildlife which lived around the [...]

British Science Week

The week commencing 14th of April 2022 was British Science Week and our pupils were busy right across school taking part in wide and varied science. Y3 investigated how reflective different materials are and thought about how that knowledge could be used to help plants in dark places to grow better. Year 6 were [...]

Year 4 – Science

Within Science this year, Year Four have explored the key concepts of States of Matter, Electricity, and Sound. In Autumn Term, they apply the scientific method to a series of experiments, measuring liquids, temperatures and time. They explored the rate of melting, cooling, and evaporation for a variety of substances, drawing their own correlations [...]

Year 4 – Maker Ed Day

Mrs Sutton organised a fantastic Maker Ed Day for Year 4. During this day, Year 4 explored a variety of problem-solving activities linking to our Coding units in Computing, and our Science unit of Electricity. This included programming robots and creating circuits that would light up for Santa’s sleigh. [...]

Home Learning

Well done to all the children and parents who have been busy learning at home.  It was lovely to see their work on Class Dojo and how hard they have been working during their lockdown period. Here is a selection of some of their work and activities they have been doing. Thank you to [...]

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