Geckos, African land snails and more ......
Year 4ST have had the most fantastic morning with Clive who is a local Scientist. We have been learning about animals and insects as part of our Science week. The children have closely observed a range of bird and animal skulls and creatures with exoskeletons such as cockroaches. It was great fun…
Kicking off Science Week
Science Week at Bridge School started with some very excited children attending an assembly on Monday morning in the school hall led by Miss Astin and Dr Nelson from The King’s School, Canterbury who also run Saturday Smarties as part of the Canterbury Primary Science Partnership.
The children…
Animal Antics
This morning Year One welcomed Lauren, from Zoolab, with some of her friends. We met a giant African land snail, a corn snake, a rat, a white tree frog and a scorpion. We loved holding the snail and cockroach, and stroking the snake and the rat. Lauren was impressed that we were able to tell her…
The Sound of Science
On Wednesday year 4 continued their science investigation of sound.
This week I asked the children to write a post in their own words. Thank you to Emma in 4ST.
"Yesterday in Science 4ST and 4JH had a great time learning about sound, vibrations and sound waves. Throughout the afternoon we…
Thermal Conductor Experiment
Today Year 5 have been scientists investigating properties of materials. We wanted to find out which material was the best thermal conductor. The children were given a list of equipment they had access to and then they were tasked with planning an experiment that would provide an answer to our…
Shining Light
This week, Year 6 have completed many studies and investigated different aspects of light. Today we solved the problem of where we would need to place umbrellas to get the most amount of shade during the day, we have demonstrated how we see things in the mirror and we have explored which materials…
Brilliant baking!
Today Year 4 had a great time making bread as part of our Science. A few weeks ago we investigated how yeast makes bread rise by putting sugar, yeast and hot water into a lemonade bottle. We put a balloon over the top and watched it blow up with carbon dioxide! It was amazing to see. We then…
Wash away the microbes
On Friday year 4 had some visitors from Pfizers. We learnt about microbes and how to wash our hands properly. First we had some special liquid to rub on to our hands to represent microbes. Next we washed our hands and then using a special ultra violet light, we could see where the fake microbes…
What’s the Matter?
It’s been a day for excellent work today. Emma and Elsie popped along to my office to show their excellent work on solids, liquids and gases.
They were able to explain how the molecules within each of these states of matter were different and how to change from one state of matter to…
