On Friday, we had such an awesome day! We designed our own very own crater experiment using flour and cocoa powder. It got a little messy! 

In year 6, we also paid tribute to the brilliant Stephen Hawking and learnt about his contributions to the world of science. 

Year 2 were challenged to build landers that would protect their space probe (an egg) and safely deliver it to Mars’ surface. The teams all had the same materials and they came up with a fantastic range of ideas from parachutes to gliders, protective baskets to on-board crash mats. A few probes sadly went splat (well, we thought that was quite funny, actually) and a few sustained a few cracks but most successfully landed. Everyone worked fantastically with their team to try to achieve the objective and did an amazing job.

This year we zoomed off to outer space and took a wet and wild walk amongst the planets of the solar system.  It made us realise why some planets are hot and some are extremely cold and we found out that on our favourite planet, Neptune, it might rain diamonds!

In our story this week the dinosaurs visited the moon to play a game of football and laid some eggs in the rocket on the way home.  Our challenge was to find the best way to package these eggs so that they survived the voyage back to Earth.  We tested a number of packaging materials (bubble wrap, flour, popcorn, water, tissue paper and cotton wool balls).  The eggs were packed up and dropped.  The best packaging materials were popcorn, flour and bubble wrap.  However, whether the egg always survived the drop in these materials depended on how well the children had wrapped up the egg!  Did your egg smash?

  We started our journey in Year 1 where there was a surprise waiting for us in 1RB

What could it be ?

Wow! It was a rocket launch area.  We were on a journey to the moon.

We saw asteroids.

We then went back to the classroom and made rockets.

Taylor is making galaxy mobiles.

Cameron came to join us and he and Liam made star constellations. 

Azaan is investigating flour and water .  He is making a moon picture. 

We having great fun with the space station.

Harrison is looking at the night sky  with a torch in our black out tent. 

We are off to investigate the solar system.

First stop the sun.  

The closest planet to the sun is Mercury. It is very hot here.

Venus – a very beautiful, peaceful planet. 

Oh good! We are at Earth. Far enough away from the sun to have  heat and light. 

The red planet – Mars! Why is it so red?

We have arrived at Jupiter. We looked carefully at the swirling mass on the planet. This is a storm that has been raging for hundreds of years !

Here is Saturn  with all its rings. I wonder what the rings are made of? 

Off we go on our travels. Which planet is next!

We have arrived at Uranus. 

Gosh! Its a long way to get to this planet.

We are still going!

At last we have arrived at Neptune.

It must be very cold as we are a long way from the sun. 

Here we are at the end of our journey!

Harrison very kindly brought in a badge for each of the children.

Thank you!

We had a great time learning all about space. We enjoyed travelling to the moon, making rockets and investigating sending our astronauts into orbit.

Today, we made a poster about Albert Haldmann. We researched facts about him to make beatiful posters.

In 3LE we made a volcano picture – we used charcoal, paint and a pencil. Year 4 children joined their mainstream class and investigated  moon craters. We had to drop a marble in the sand and describe the shape of the crater.  In Year 5 we made a holiday advert for the planet Mars and Year 6 looked at the contribution to science by Professor Stephen Hawking – a tribute to a great scientist.

We  all felt happy and excited about our Science day!

Here are just a few of our wonderful rocket creations.

Year 2 are having such a fun Science day!

We have just got back from our walk to Neptune venturing throughout our solar system visiting each planet on the way! 

Language Base 2 have been looking at keeping healthy including the importance of balanced diets. We designed meals with a mix of fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates, protein, dairy and not too much fats and sugar. We then made 3D models of our meals.