Today in Science, Year 5 have been learning about the different phases of the moon. The Moon’s appearance changes over time when viewed from Earth. Sometimes, the Moon is not visible at all and at other times it can appear as a thin crescent, full circle – or somewhere in between. Read more
In Year 5 this term, the children are going to be designing and then creating their own pop-up books. In the first lesson, pupils looked at pop-up books for children and identified the mechanisms used and the target audience. Today, the objective of the lesson was to follow a set Read more
On Wednesday, five children from Year 5 and five children from Year 6 visited Harwood Park Primary School for Science Ambassador training. The children took part in a variety of activities throughout the afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it! They represented themselves and Heap Bridge brilliantly. Well done to you Read more
In Science this term, Year 5 have been exploring different forces. Last week, we looked at air resistance. Air resistance is a type of friction between air and another material. For example, when an airplane flies through the air, air particles hit the airplane making it more difficult for it to Read more
Today, Year 3 visited Brockholes nature reserve in Preston and what a day they had going back in time to the Stone Age – even the weather didn’t spoil our day. Here are some pictures from across the day. First was shelter building, after all, to survive you need a Read more
In Science this term, Year 4 are learning all about electricity. In today’s lesson, they were given images of 9 different circuits. Using the equipment, they had to recreate the circuit and discover whether it would light the bulb. Some of the circuits were more difficult than others, but Mrs Read more
In Science this term, Year 4 are learning all about ‘States of Matter’. In today’s lesson, the children undertook some investigations into how materials can change states. Materials can be in three different states: solid, liquid or gas. When a solid turns into a liquid it is called melting. The Read more
Today, in year 5 we have been investigating the time it takes for planets to orbit the Sun. The children have been exploring patterns in the time it takes for planets at different distances to orbit the Sun. We used a ball and string model, a stopwatch and a ruler Read more