Curriculum Impact Tag: Science

The children in our nurseries have been playing in our woodland area this morning.  They have produced a woodland shop with sticks, branches and leaves, they have worked cooperatively to manoeuvre on the adventure trail and they have played a guessing game using pebbles.  The game was a focused…

The children have continued their bug hunting this week using the magnifying viewfinders. After an adult initiated bug hunting activity last week, these children were choosing to continue and extend their learning independently.  

Year 1- Science-Mammals and Birds 

We have been learning about different types of animals including mammals and birds. We sorted the animals into the different types and talked about the features of each one. 

The children worked in groups to sort animals into vertebrates and invertebrates.

This week the children have been working in their key groups to find hidden bugs in our woodland area. They used their investigative skills to look for the photographs of different insects and to talk about their features. We will continue to learn about bugs this half term as we are reading ‘I’m…

Year 1 Science-Animals including humans 

We have been learning about what makes an animal? An animal can move freely, it can eat other living things and it needs water to survive. We also discussed why an animal is not a plant. The children enjoyed playing “ guess the animal” game in…

Today we were visited by Margaret and Michael from Lancashire Hawks and Owls. They brought some of their amazing birds with them to show us. We learnt lots of facts about the birds and we we able to stroke some of them.

Over the past few weeks the children have been really interested in pumpkins.  They have brought pumpkins in to use in our learning, and told us about visits to pumpkin patches.  We have used pumpkins in our maths counting and comparing activities, created and investigated pumpkin potions, shared…

Today, we were lucky enough to have visitors from Liverpool Hope University.

They worked alongside the children in small groups exploring a range of questions surrounding Earth and space.

After a big garden clear up in Nursery A this week, we have been busy planting some Spring bulbs.  

This half term we are reading The Gingerbread Man and this week we focused on him crossing the river. We placed a gingerbread man in water and watched what happened. The children could see how he floated at first but then began to crumble and break. They also noticed how the water changed colour…