Science at Homerswood
It is our intent at Homerswood Primary School to build a Science Curriculum, which develops the learning of Science skills alongside a questioning mind about ways in which Science influences everyday life.
Our investigative Science will encourage children to ask important questions about how things work and why things happen in a certain way - using their enquiry skills to support them: observations, predictions, reasoning, explanations and analysis. Ultimately, this will help all children to understand the world they are growing up in and provide them with life skills to better access it as well as becoming creative thinkers and adults who strive to seek solutions to problems and answers to life’s questions. We explore topics such as animals, including humans, sound, electricity and materials across multiple year groups to extend, progress and deepen learning.
Alongside scientific knowledge and the understanding of concepts, we hope that our children will develop curiosity and excitement about the natural world as well as use their skills to understand how Science can be used today and in the future.
Spring 2023
Welcome back to Spring term! We have an exciting one ahead with exciting Science enquires, a mixture of working scientifically skills and Science week too. Make sure you ask the children which out of the five enquiry types they have explored in their science lessons and keep an eye on the photos over the term.
Autumn Term 2022
Welcome back to a new school year - ready for some exciting, interesting science learning! This half term we will have some classes exploring our bodies and foods we require for energy, whilst others are exploring sound and others are thinking about evolution and adaptations animals have made over the years.
Keep up to date with the various scientific enquiries on the page.
2021-2022
Welcome to Summer term at Homerswood! Following on from our fantastic Science learning in Spring, we are excited for all of the experiments, observations and exploration this half-term. There are some exciting topics whereby EYFS are exploring keeping safe and minibeasts, Year 1 will be off On Safari, Year 2 focusing on gardening and plants, Year 3 focusing on forces, Year 4 will be creating some circuits to explore electricity, in Year 5 they will explore growing old and finally Year 6 will think about how to stay healthy.
As the season changes, hopefully we can be outside exploring the natural habitats around us in the sun to experience all of the first-hand, practical science Homerswood excels at.
Look out for regular updates on the learning across the school.
Welcome back to Spring term of Science learning!
We are working incredibly hard at Homerswood to consolidate our science learning whilst continuing to learn new topics and apply them during our learning through the academic year.
Lots of topics are being taught across the year groups including Plants and Animals in Year 1, Squash, Bend, Twist, Stretch in Year 2, Lights and Shadows in Year 3, Teeth and Eating in Year 4, the Circle of Life in Year 5 and Electricity and Light in Year 6.
We are also celebrating British Science Week in March 2022 in school through a variety of whole school scientific experiments (watch out for many, many shoe boxes!)
This page will be updated regularly throughout this term so revisit again soon to help us all celebrate the fantastic work of the pupils across the school.
Welcome back to the Autumn Term Science Page!
I hope you have settled into your new year groups and are looking forward to lots of new learning, especially in Science! Take a look around the page, there are great story book suggestions that are related to Science. Have you read any? Let your teachers know, or myself, and we may be able to get them ordered for you.
Space Week 2021
Did you know that this week is World Space Week?
Year 5 have been looking at Earth and Space as part of their Science learning in school. Use these websites to find out more-
https://www.worldspaceweek.org/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/curations/space-week
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58803425
Big Butterfly Count 2021
The Big Butterfly Count is a nationwide citizen science survey aimed at helping us assess the health of our environment. It was launched in 2010 and has rapidly become the world's biggest survey of butterflies. Over 111,500 citizen scientists took part in 2020, submitting 145,249 counts of butterflies and day-flying moths from across the UK.
Big Butterfly Count 2021 runs from Friday 16 July to Sunday 8 August.
Simply count butterflies for 15 minutes during bright (preferably sunny) weather during the Big Butterfly Count. We have chosen this time of year because most butterflies are at the adult stage of their lifecycle, so more likely to be seen. Records are welcome from anywhere: from parks, school grounds and gardens, to fields and forests.
If you are counting from a fixed position in your garden, count the maximum number of each species that you can see at a single time. For example, if you see three Red Admirals together on a buddleia bush then record it as 3, but if you only see one at a time then record it as 1 (even if you saw one on several occasions) – this is so that you don’t count the same butterfly more than once.
If you are doing your count on a walk, then simply total up the number of each butterfly species that you see during the 15 minutes.
Take a look at the website for more information and remember to submit your numbers!
https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/about
British Science Week 2021
Next week, week beginning the 8th March, pupils at Homerswood will be introduced to "Innovating the Future" by designing an invention to be used in the future.
Pupils can take part individually, or as part of a group/class. Certificates and prizes will be available for the overall winners from each class.
Pieces designed by classes/groups individuals can be of their choice to present, either through a poster, written piece, model.....the choice is yours!
Mrs Reeve will choose overall winners for each class, and then the school, before the end of the Spring Term.