Science Week at Woodlands Junior

Science Week at Woodlands Junior

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Science and Technology Week

The aim of the week was to raise the profile of Science in our school. There is so much in the media at the moment highlighting both Literacy and Numeracy, that we feel Science is being left in the shadows.

So what did we do?
We had visiting speakers in whose work is in the field of science.
These speakers included an architect, a bio-chemist, a vet and an engineer.

Monday

Rob Seal talked to the children about his job as an architect. They helped him design a new school.

Tuesday

Malcolm Gray, a biochemist, told us about how the field of medicine has changed over the years.
He explained how urine used to be tested by dipping your finger in it and then tasting it! The children were amazed to see a teacher demonstrate this technique. Of course no real urine was used, only diluted lucozade. (You can see the bottle on the table).

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Wednesday

Caron Combe, a vet, captured the attention of the children when she showed them slides of animals she treats at the Bell Equine Clinic. The children were fascinated to see an operation on a horse. They also saw x-rays taken of injured animals.

This is Jodie's report. She is seven years old.
I really enjoyed our visitor today. I thought it was really good. When she showed us the picture of the horse guts, everybody went aaaargh! but I thought it was very interesting. When Caron showed us a horse being lifted up while it was asleep, that was interesting as well. Everyone thought Caron's slides were interesting. I want to be a vet like Caron because I thought she was so interesting. That is why I want to do it.

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Thursday - Invention Day

Our hall was filled with many wonderful models made by the children. They were set the task of designing and creating models of what they thought inventions of the next century might be. We were taken a back, not only by the sheer number of models entered, but also by the very high standard of work and thought gone into making them. Judging them was very hard.

Click here to see some of the models the children made.

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Friday

Richard Carrington talked to the children about his job as an Engineer. They learnt about how trains work and were given a quick history tour of railways.

Science Investigations
Each Year Group was set an investigation to do. These investigation included finding the best material to resurface the M25 and investigating colour combinations for traffic signs.

Competition
The children were set the challenge of designing of what they think will be the invention of the next century. The models of these inventions were displayed in our hall for everyone to admire.

Assemblies
The children learnt much about the history of science through informative assemblies.