Wicor Primary School

our vision for science.pdf

science-website-page.docx.pdf

Whole School Overview - Science.pdf

In Year 6, children learnt about the human circulatory system. They researched in depth to be able to describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood. The also learnt to recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function. This included collecting data on how their pulse rate changed for different types of exercise and how the length of time you exercise also affects your pulse rate.

They watched as a heart was dissected and were able to find and label the main parts of the heart. Alongside this, they found out about the first heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard.

This learning built on knowledge from Years 3 and 4 about the main body parts and internal organs. In addition, the Year 6 children cooked some healthy foods and learnt about how much sugar was added to some of their favourite snacks.

Heart

Vertebrates Work

Year 1 children made an encyclopaedia to help identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including information on whether they are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Blood book

science website y6 compost.mp4

Science video Y6

During British Science Week the whole school joined in with the theme of 'Time'. Each year group focused on a different element of time, with some children finding out what could be done in 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes and so on and other children, integrated it with PE and thought about the impact of exercise for different time durations. However, all the children from Y2 up to Y6 made clocks with the challenge of making a clock that could measure 2 minutes. This involved research on time clocks in history, looking the Mesopotamians who imagined a unit that measured both time and distance. Having learned to count the days, the children then learnt how man began to count the hours using sundials, fire clocks or clepsydras.