Science | Plover School

Building Habitats: Protecting our Planet!

23rd January 2024Mr Pickering

Key Stage 1 have been learning about the importance of plants and trees to our planet but also about how they provide habitats for birds and other wildlife. Today, we started work on our final product for our expedition. Using our experts from the Council, we have planted 5 fruit trees to create a mini-orchard and also many different types of plants to create a hedgerow along the boundary of the fence.

We learnt about how to care for our newly planted saplings and also how we can protect them whilst they are still establishing themselves in their new home. We can’t wait to see how they grow and develop in the months and years to come. Hopefully, one day, we will have apples, pears, cherries and plums to eat!

The trees and hedges were kindly provided by the Tree Council as part of their Orchards for Schools project.

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Build for Birds Experts

23rd January 2024Joshua Meade

In expedition we were scientists and listened to 3 bird experts about the importance of birds, their habitats and found out some extraordinary facts. #LovePlover

What do we want?

22nd January 2024Mr Pickering

2P have been exploring the difference between the basic things that we NEED to survive in a habitat and the things that we might WANT. There were some very interesting discussions – especially around technology!

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Busy in Expedition and Reading

16th January 2024Joshua Meade

As part of our expedition in science, we were looking at basic needs for survival!

Well done Oliver for working hard and being kind in phonics. #LovePlover

Active Learning

12th January 2024Joshua Meade

Active Maths and Science! Well done Alfie for being a super reader in phonics! #LovePlover

We are scientists!

13th November 2023Mrs Haycock

Year 4 have been thinking about the materials that are all around us and deciding if they are opaque, translucent or transparent. I wonder if they can tell you the meanings of these scientific terms? We also had fun predicting whether different materials would produce dark, faint or barely visible shadows. After shining our torches onto the different objects, we recorded our results and looked for patterns in them. Well done everyone. I wonder what we will investigate next?

Sorry about the lack of photos 4H – the rest are refusing to upload! 🤷‍♀️

Mrs Haycock

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We know how the sun can be dangerous!

12th November 2023Mrs Haycock

Year 4 have been learning about the dangers caused by the sun and how we can protect ourselves from them. Active learning helped us to search for the facts around our room in the first place. We then used these facts to produce a leaflet about the dangers we had learned about.

Mrs Haycock

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6SB have been working as scientists! 🌷

1st November 2023Miss Blackham

6SB have been deconstructing plants and labelling their parts. They have been working really hard as scientists and I am SO impressed with their plants knowledge! Ask your children to recall the party’s of a plant to you!

-Miss Blackham

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This Is A Home

10th October 2023Amy Wood-Samways

Today we learnt about animal habitats and discussed similarities and differences between our homes to theirs. We learnt where different animals live and had a go at making our own habitats.

Miss Wood

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Year 3 Glow Day Crew, Maths and Science

6th October 2023Mrs Graves

We had great day glowing today!

In crew we were thinking about “What makes me glow” and we had some great suggestions from being with family, to doing well at sport.

We enjoyed some glow maths, with a game of ‘Bin-glow’ and a Glowing Maths Facts pair work challenge, where we tested what we have learnt about place value over the last few weeks.

After a lovely lunch, we worked as scientists and investigated light and darkness – what are light sources and what is darkness. Did you know, the moon is NOT a light source! We then conducted our own scientific experiments, investigating whether temperature affects how brightly a glow stick glows, what does light look like when broken down into its separate colours and how does tonic water glow in the dark.