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Scientists

Our intent:

As Scientists, we promote a healthy curiosity in children about our universe. We believe that Science encompasses the acquisition of knowledge, concepts, skills and positive attitudes. We ensure that working scientifically skills are built upon as children progress throughout their school career. This supports them to use equipment, conduct experiments, build arguments, explain concepts confidently, ask questions and be curious about their surroundings. Our children will understand what it means to be a Scientist and how Scientists play a part in our day-to-day life.

Our approach:

  • Science will be taught in planned blocks by the class teacher which will have an enquiry-based approach. This is a strategy to enable the achievement of a greater depth of knowledge. Enquiries are built upon each year to ensure that children have the opportunity to learn more and remember more.
  • Through our enquiry based planning, teachers plan carefully for problem-solving opportunities that allow children to explore for themselves. Children are encouraged to ask their own questions and are given opportunities to use their scientific skills to discover answers to their questions.

This successful approach at Sea Mills Primary results in a fun, engaging, high-quality science education, that provides children with the foundations for understanding the world.

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Year 1: Science Day

Our workshop focused on the inventor Lyda Newman who used her scientific knowledge of materials to invent a hairbrush. This information then inspired the rest of the day. We went on a materials hunt around the school, explored the meaning of absorbent and investigated which materials would be best suited to an umbrella.

Year 2: Science Day 2023 – Connections

To celebrate the theme of ‘connections’ in Science this year, we had a day to celebrate and provide children with lots of opportunities to become scientists. From Nursery to Year 6, all classes experienced a workshop where they learnt about a diverse, famous Scientist and then had the opportunity to apply their working scientifically skills in an active way. All teachers planned in opportunities across the day for all children to create and carry out an experiment that linked to their prior learning and built upon our enquiry skills. Well done everyone!

Year 2: A visit from ‘Zoolab’ to celebrate the end of our enquiry unit ‘What is home?’

Emily from zoo-lab came into see us for an animal workshop. We got to see a range of animals from a frog to a snake! All of the children thoroughly enjoyed this experience and showed an inquisitive attitude.

Year 6 – Making Circuits

Today, in year 6, we have been looking at the symbols scientists use to draw circuits. We have had a go at making our own and then investigated the impact that voltage has on a circuit. We asked questions, made predictions based on what we already know and then carried out our own investigation to find out the results.

Year 6 – Scientists

Our enquiry this term is ‘How Big is your Footprint?’. We have been learning about the different types of impact that we have on our planet.

As part of our celebration of learning, we went on a trip to UWE and visited The School of Engineering. During our time there, we took part in a sustainability workshop where we had to design our own product to help make Bristol more sustainable. We use Minecraft to support us with this.

We met Pepper, a robot that can be used within the social care system to help keep the elderly company.

Then, we had a tour of the department and had a go with VR which is used to help simulate different situations in everyday life.

Year 6 – Heart Dissection

Year 6 finished off their enquiry of ‘How are lives saved?’ with a heart dissection.  The children had an amazing time looking at all the different parts of both pig’s and cow’s hearts. Have a look at our pictures below!

Science Year 5 – Who do forces do? 

Testing and making parachutes and then evaluating these. Answering the question what difference will different surfaces make to the height of a ball’s bounce.  We were predicting, observing and measuring.

D.T and Science Page Year 3 – Where does the darkness come from?

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Science Week 2022

All classes took part in science week which focused on space! We were all named a different planet and produced a range of learning from photos of experiments, art work and writing. Well done to the Sea Mills staff and children!

Scientists – Circulatory System

Year 6 have been learning about the heart and the circulatory system. They got to look at and investigate real pigs’ hearts. They really enjoyed being Scientists.

 

Scientists – Testing parachutes

Scientists – Paper Planes

Year 5 are being Scientists, and investigating the impact of different variables on their paper planes. Will they fly further if they have extra weight added or if you launch from a greater height. We are making sure we undertake Fair Tests.

Scientists – Linnaeus and Darwin

Year 6 are looking at Linnaeus and Darwin. We have started learning about classification keys and how they can help classify plants, animals and even sweets!

Scientists – What’s in our blood?

This week, Year 6 have been learning about how our circulation works by creating our own circulatory system in the classroom. They had to collect oxygenated blood (red cards) from the heart and deliver it to other organs. We then learnt the different components and their roles in our blood and enjoyed creating our own fake ‘blood’! We used water with yellow food colouring to represent the plasma, Cheerios mixed with red food colouring to represent the red blood cells, mini marshmallows for the white blood cells and finally, some oats for the platelets.

Classifying objects

Today, year 6 have been scientists and have learning all about classifying objects. To begin with we started with All Sorts. Next week we will begin to apply this knowledge on classifying animals and plants.

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Dissecting pig and sheep hearts

Today, we had a hands on learning experience dissecting pig and sheep hearts. We have been learning all about the cardiovascular system.  We were able to identify the different chambers of the heart as well as the arteries that flow from the heart.  It was clear to see the structure of the heart.  It was interesting to see how much bigger the pigs heart was than the sheep.  It also had a lot more fat around it.  The children really enjoyed this experience and cant wait to do something similar soon!

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