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Here at St Bart's we are proud of science in our school - we hold a national award PSQM (Primary Science Quality Mark) at GILT level. This means that science is embedded in everything we do.
Throughout school we ensure hands on learning through the five enquiry types where scientific skills are developed and built on from Nursery all the way to Year 6. We aim to take learning outdoors as much as possible.
Children learn about different science roles available in the world around them and how it fits in to their everyday lives. We love having visitors in to talk about their jobs in science and encourage all of the children to see themselves as mini scientists.
In our science club the children are in charge of developing and maintaining our brand-new wildlife site. We can't wait to see what they do with it!
Curriculum - Science - Key Documents
Curriculum - Science - Useful Links
PSTT (Primary Science Teaching Trust)
Curriculum - Science - Sound Hunting
Today we went on a sound hunt around school. We made predictions about the loudest and quietest places in school. Then we visited them and measured the volume with data loggers
Curriculum - Science - Leonids Work
Class 6 had an oracy lesson about art, discussing what they liked and disliked about Leonids work. They then wrote about it and drew a picture of their favourite work.
Curriculum - Science - Pitch
Year 4 had a fantastic time investigating pitch with musical instruments. We investigated pitch using different instruments and identified the patterns we found. We learnt that sound is a vibration and felt the vibrations of different instruments and tuning keys.
Curriculum - Science - Earth and Space
In our first lesson of Earth and Space, we stepped back thousands of years ago and looked at the evidence that scientists came up with to decipher whether the Earth was flat or a spherical body. The children were split into teams and had to become the scientists, and argue their points using their oracy skills.
Curriculum - Science - Living Things & Survival
Today in science class 8 thought about what living things need to survive. We then looked at what humans need to stay healthy and the different food groups. Children worked together to sort food packaging into food groups.
Curriculum - Science - Inheritance
This week, class 14 have orally discussed inheritance from parents to offspring. This resulted in a really healthy debate.
Curriculum - Science - Finches on The Galápagos Islands
Class 16 have been learning about the evolution of finches on the Galápagos Islands. We experimented with different beak types to empathise with the finches and understand why they evolved their beaks the way they did. We especially enjoyed learning about the blood sucking vampire finch.
Curriculum - Science - Wildlife Club
Today in wildlife club we played pest or pal to learn which creatures were useful to the gardener and which ones we needed to protect our garden against. Once we had played the game we went into our garden to try and find out whether we had pests or pals. We were pleased that we found woodlice, bees, spiders and centipedes. Our garden is full of pals!
Curriculum - Science - Skeletons
Today we developed our knowledge of human skeletons by playing ‘skeleton drive’ We had to roll the number we needed to collect the bones one by one. We were in a race against our opponents to create a complete skeleton.
Curriculum - Science - Light and Shadow
Class 15 have spent today learning about light and shadow, we drew around our shadows on the playground in the morning then revisited later in the afternoon to investigate the changing shadow and relationship to time.
Curriculum - Science - Amazing Bodies
Today we started our new topic ‘Amazing bodies’ We started by labelling all the body parts that we knew. Then we drew round each other and labelled any internal parts we thought we knew. Once we had discussed all the things we though we knew, we generated questions about what we wanted to find out. Once we started asking questions we couldn’t stop!
Curriculum - Science - Frogs
Some children in year 6 have enjoyed feeding the tadpoles. We have some that have nearly changed into frogs. We released the tadpoles and a couple of frogs into the nature garden pond today. Hopefully we will have our own frog spawn next year to watch grow.
Curriculum - Science - Tadpoles
Our tadpoles have been going from strength to strength. They are beginning to develop legs with some already having back legs and front legs on the way. We can’t wait to see how many frogs we get before we release them back to the pond where they came from.
Curriculum - Science - Magnets
Today we investigated making our own magnets. We investigated the question: how long will our magnets stay magnetised for? We decided how to carry out our tests by discussing what we needed and how to record the results.
Curriculum - Science - Yorkshire Sculpture Park Trip
Today class 8 had a fantastic day visiting Yorkshire Sculpture Park. In the morning we had a guided tour around looking at some of the amazing sculptures. We did some sketching and even made our own sculptures out of clay. In the afternoon we worked in teams to create sculptures of animals.
Curriculum - Science - The Human Eye
Class 15 enjoyed learning about the different parts of the human eye. Children had to identify each part of the human eye and their function.
Curriculum - Science - Tadpoles
We have some new visitors in our classroom!
We will watch the tadpoles grow over the next few weeks and go through the different stages of metamorphosis until they turn into tiny frogs ready to be released back into the wild.
Curriculum - Science - Potatoes
Class 4 have enjoyed planting potatoes and are looking forward to watching them grow!
Curriculum - Science - Beans
Class 4 have enjoyed watching our beans grow into a beanstalk!
Curriculum - Science - Zoolab Visit (Class 4)
Class 4 enjoyed a visit from some animals, including a stick insect and a snake! Some of us were brave enough to touch and hold some of the animals.
