Science teaches children to be curious about the world around them, to ask questions, and to investigate phenomena systematically. At our school, we follow the HEP Science scheme, which provides a structured, progressive curriculum that develops scientific knowledge, skills, and understanding.
The National Curriculum for Science states that a high-quality science education should equip children with knowledge of the natural world, encourage scientific enquiry, and enable them to apply their understanding to explain phenomena. Through HEP Science, children explore biology, chemistry, and physics in an engaging way, building their ability to observe, investigate, hypothesise, experiment, and draw evidence-based conclusions.
Through the delivery of Science, we aim to improve children’ skills in these four areas:
Our science curriculum, delivered through the HEP Science scheme, aims to ensure that all children:
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Over the last two science lessons we have been learning about the digestive system and we started with teeth. The teeth start the process by chewing and swallowing our food and drink. We then set up an investigation to look at how different liquids can cause problems for our teeth and which ones are better for the enamel. We observed over the week how the shells of the egg changed.
Today Year 5 were set the task of becoming engineers and creating their own gliders. First, we spent sometime designing and perfecting our gliders on paper. Then we brought them to life using card, straws, masking table and blu tac. The children were then able to test out their glider and see how far it travelled! All of year 5 were happy and excited to see their glider fly.
We have had a fantastic science lesson and learnt about parts of our body. We drew around our body and began labelling.
You may have heard about our exciting lesson which included making ice-cream in class! We were exploring how the change in state takes place from liquid to solid using freezing. We took milk, vanilla essence and sugar and out them in a small freezer bag. Then we put the bag inside a bugger bag filled with ice and salt. Then shook it for 10 minutes to make the state change and then we tasted our ice cream!
Our topic in Autumn 1 was states of matter and in this lesson we were looking at the rate of ice melting. We discussed how ice is a solid and it changes state to liquid when it melts. Then we set up an investigation looking into whether adding water with salt, baking soda and sugar could slow down or speed up the rate of melting. Our conclusion was that salt was the one that slowed down the rate of melting the most.
In Science we carried out an investigation to look at irreversible changes. Year 5 mixed bicarbonate of soda with vinegar and placed a glove over the top. They watched the hand come alive, as the bicarbonate of soda and vinegar mixed, creating carbon dioxide. We were all very excited with the results!
Today, we had a lovely time in our school garden, looking at the vibrant features of God’s creation and His beautiful creatures which he made. We looked at the fish and their stripes, we looked at the delicate features on leaves and we talked about how each plant is so unique.
In Science, we have been looking at properties and changes of materials. We carried out an investigation to see how water can change state. Year 5 discovered that water is an example of a reversible change, because it can be reversed by adding or removing heat.
During this lesson, we invested the components and their roles within the blood. Each group was faced with four patients – someone who was fighting an infection; someone who has a cut; someone who has been exercising and someone who is healthy.
Looking at the platelets, white blood cell, red bloods and plasma each group managed to work out who was who.
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Ask us all about our learning. Each part represented the heart, blood vessels, values and cardiac muscles but which is which?
Today, we got to care for our school chicks. We all had a turn of holding the chicks.
Sunflower class have been learning about growing and changes. We have talked about how God shows his love all around us, giving us new life.
Finding our pulse was tricky, but we loved spotting what happened to your pulse when we rested and exercised. #StFinbarsScientists
Year 5 have been learning all about hydrogen as the energy of the future. All learners were fully engaged and able to talk about how this will help reduce pollution on our planet @MadScienceGroup @StFinbarsSch
