On Monday 22nd October - Friday 26th October we are having a
Science week in school. Throughout the week the children will have lots of
magical experiences to help bring important elements of the National Curriculum
to life and to experience Science live!
On
Tuesday 23rd October The Mobile Farm Experience is coming to visit
our Nursery to Year 3 classes - bringing the farm experience to school! The
children will learn a range of fascinating things about Food, Farming and the
Countryside and throughout the visit the children will have lots of
opportunities to get close to the animals. Sessions include:
- Free time to meet the animals
- Hands on encounter sessions
- Feeding and grooming
- Talking through each animal in turn including:
differences, baby names, what they produce and what each animal needs to
stay healthy.
- Quiz and activity sheets
For
years 4, 5 and 6, the children will be working with Ken Harrison, an
experienced expert from Mayfield Grammar school, who will be doing some amazing
science with the different year groups. Their sessions will be on the Tuesday
and Wednesday. The Year 4 workshop will be exploring forces, the year 5 workshop
is all about light and the year 6 workshop is about materials. Each of these sessions
will be practical and inspiring. Some of which will go with a bang!
Martin
Rapley, more famously known as ‘The Bugman!’ will be visiting children from
year R up to year 6 on the Thursday. He will perform an animal variety show where
the children will have plenty of opportunity to learn about, and where
suitable, touch animals, like a snake, lizard, harvest mouse, pygmy hedgehog,
praying mantis, stick insects, an emperor scorpion, Mexican red knee tarantula
and giant millipedes. The show has plenty of WOW factor and the children will
love it. There will also be smaller close up sessions too.
As
a finale, Doctor Julie’s Heaps of Science Fun will be performing a wonderful
show to years 1-6. The show will demonstrate a range of exciting repeatable
scientific experiments using everyday household objects. The children will be
amazed and inspired!
I am really looking forward to a very exciting end to the term!
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