Science Chatter
Investigating materials
5M were exploring properties of different materials this afternoon, examining how their features make them suitable for various uses.
5H Heat insulation experiment
We enjoyed experimenting with different materials to see which was the best insulator. Tin foil and felt where great insulators!
6B Shadow Experiment
6B investigated how shadows change size depending on the distance from a light source.
Design and Technology
Beginning to put our designs together.
Can you guess what we are making?
5M Design and Technology
We had great fun designing these steady hand games and are looking forward to trying out each other’s to help evaluate them.
We love that we got to create an electrical circuit to test them out!
Investigating thermal insulation!
5M have used independent, dependent and controlled variables to investigate thermal insulation.
Firstly, we needed to learn how to read a thermometer correctly.
Winter Planting
Today in science we planted some seeds, we are very excited to watch them grow. Today we looked at the words: flower, stem, leaf and roots.
Science – Collecting Data
As part of our science we have collecting data around school of what we could observe. We had 4 categories : vertebrate, invertebrate, flowering plants and non-flowering plants.
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Science Week 👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🧫🔬🧬
Today we explored animals for science week! We looked at animals which live on farms. We also explored different wild animals and made our very own masks.
Science Week -Year One
Great start to Science week in Year One exploring different types of “beak” tools (tweezers, spoons, straws and chops sticks) to pick up different “food” (rice, gummy worms and marbles.)
British Science Week 2025 – Change and adapt!
A great start to our science week in year 5 today!
Assembly got us hyped up for a fun week of investigations, followed by a fabulous chat with members of the Knowsley Safari Park team about how to be a Planet Protector!
Later on we investigated camouflage by adapting our moth to blend into its environment for survival.
Knowsley Safari
This morning Knowsley Safari spoke to use about how our little actions can impact on animals and nature. We discussed how to make more sustainable choices.
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Blubber Gloves
As part of Science week, we’ve been learning about how penguins have adapted to their environment. Blubber helps them keep warm, we did a taste to see how blubber keeps our hands warm.
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Science Week 🔬👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🧬
Today reception have explored changing materials! Today we turned cream into butter and buttermilk. We shook the cream until it separated into butter and buttermilk. We can’t wait to use our butter tomorrow for our crackers for snack!
Y2 Science Week
”Different birds need different shaped beaks to pick up different types of food.”
Super discussion during the first day of Science Week- during Beak Buffet 2D tested out different “beaks” for picking up food and discussed which were the best.
Y2 Science Week
”When you touched the coloured milk with the cotton bud, it looked like little clouds.” 2D carried out a magic milk experiment to explore how things changed when they are mixed.
Y2 Science Week
Today we worked with Mr Moffatt to explore Indi robots and how they move- we worked out how to use the base boards to make it move in different directions.
Science Week 👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🔬🧬
Today Reception have explored engineering. We programmed the Bee Bots to move across the grid.
Science Week 👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🔬🧬
Reception enjoyed their butter this morning on crackers for snack!🧈
Spring 💐🌷🌻
Today Reception explored the parts of a flower!🌺 We have begun to look at how the season of spring is when plants and flowers start to grow and bloom after winter.
Science Week- Zoom with an engineer
Today Reception had a zoom with an engineer! They told us how rockets get into space! 🪐🚀🛰️
Science Week!
Today Year 3 enjoyed making oobleck and learning about non-newtonian fluid!
SCIENCE WEEK
Year 4 have been loving Science week🔬
So far, we have enjoyed a talk from Knowsley safari park.
We also have been investigating how animals adapt to their environment by conducting a blubber experiment.
Science Week
We enjoyed having Knowsley Safari in this week to teach us about the dangers of plastic for animals
TECHNOLOGY
We have been learning about STEM in Science Week. Today, we looked at technology. We enjoyed using AI and coding to make our robots talk.
Science Week, day 2
Today we have been making our own butter. We even got to try it on a cracker. We could not believe we were able to make our own butter. It was a lot of hard work and took a lot of perseverance, but we did it!
Science Week 🧬👨🏽🔬👩🏻🔬🔬
Today reception explored weather for science week! We did an experiment to show how clouds rain 🌧️. We used water, foam and food colouring for our experiment🧪
Science Week, Day 3.
Today we have had lots of fun doing a science experiment about the weather. We have learnt about the rain and got to be scientists and experiment it all on our own.
Science week
3M have enjoyed taking part in Science Week. We have completed the ‘Blubber Gloves’ experiment which explores how animals adapt, made Oobleck which is a substance that acts as both a solid and a liquid and designed our very own invention that will help us.
Science Week
We looked at how birds have adapted to pick things up with their beaks by picking up objects with various things. We decided that the spoons were the best.
Year 2 Computing and Science
Another element of science week is computing. This week we looked at robots. We programmed the robots to move based on the colours they register.
Science week
We had a real life rocket engineer speak to us this week, he answered our questions about rockets and what it takes to be an engineer. We will keep practicing our science and maths!
science Week in year 5
5H has had fun this week during Science Week. We have explored different scientists, attempted to make bouncy eggs (unfortunately they were still very raw) and even designed our own inventions! What fun!
Science Week
During Science week, we made our own butter! We poured double cream into a jar, and we shook, and shook, and shook some more until…it turned into butter! We then enjoyed our butter on our crackers 🥰
Y2 Science
Today 2D went on a mini beast hunt during their science lesson on microhabitats.
Year 2 Science
This week we studied micro habitats. We went in the hunt for some mini beasts in our school grounds.
Stay and Learn
Reception had a fun afternoon with their adults! We showed our adults our classroom. We took part in different activities such as; colour mixing, flower blooming, Easter egg designing, tulip printing and tower building with 3D shapes!
Stay and Learn
Thank you to all grown-ups who could make it to Year 4’s Stay and Learn this morning. We loved doing our science experiment with you.
Year One – Stay and Learn
Lovely stay and learn session with our family members learning all about plants. Who is going to grow the tallest Sunflower?
Year 6 Stay and Learn
6B loved our Science retrieval session focusing on previous learning from KS2. The children had to work together to plot specific bones and organs onto a life-size human body!
Y6 Stay and Learn
A huge thank you to all those parents who were able to support our Stay & Learn this morning. It was such fun! We had a science focus and children were able to plot organs and bones on the human body! Some interesting ideas and some very artistic parents as well!
PSHE
Yesterday, 3McK worked in pairs to think of ways Harold’s school could help the environment. We came up with some great ideas such as having signs to show where the bins are to help reduce littering, having labelled recycling bins and planting trees and flowers to create habitats for animals. Fantastic work 3McK!
Year 5 Parent stay and learn – Science 🤩
We had a great morning confusing our brain with the ‘Stroop Effect’ test.
Some were difficult and some were easy. It made us laugh out loud and we’d like to thank our parents for joining us!
Year 2 Stay and Learn
Thank you to all of the parents who attended our stay and learn. This time we learnt about food chains and created some food chains of our own.
Science in the sun!
3McK had a great afternoon planting seeds for our science experiment! We will be measuring their height over the next 4 weeks!
Froggy Fever
Year 5 have been learning about life cycles of amphibians, insects and birds this afternoon. One of our pupils had a book all about frogs, from our reading cafe last term. We had time at the end of our day to find out some more interesting facts!
Life Cycle of a butterfly
This week reception have been exploring the life cycle of a butterfly 🦋 . We looked at the text The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛 to help us explore. We have completed lots of activities to help us understand caterpillars and butterflies.
Y2 Science
2D enjoyed planting seeds for their science experiment to find out if plants grow better in warmer or colder places.
If you were an engineer, what would you do – competition!
These children have celebrated their engineering success, having received a certificate from Primary Engineer for their amazing invention entries.
They received a grading of Pass, Merit or Distinction and those that received Distinction Shortlisted, were in the final to become an overall winner!
Well done Children!
Engineering Competition
During our Science Week 2025, all children in Stockton Wood got the opportunity to enter a national engineering competition where they had to design something that would make someone’s life easier. Well done to all children who entered the competition and a big congratulations to one of our year 3 pupils who has been one of two children picked in England as a finalist!
Y2 Science
Congratulations to the amazing members of 2D who have earned certificates as part of the “If you were an engineer what would you do?” engineering project.
Year One – Science
Great work today by our class monitors looking after our class plant. Making sure it has got enough water and sunlight.
Science Investigation
We planned an experiment to find out if the duration of exercise affects our heart rate. We had to think about independent, dependent and controlled variables to ensure that it was a fair test. We used stopwatches to time our heart beats per minute and recorded our results. We discovered that the longer the duration of exercise, the higher the heart rate ❤️ We are now exhausted 😆
Year 2 Science
This week we have been looking at the life cycles of butterflies. To show this we have got our very own caterpillars to study. At the moment they are very small but soon they will enter their pupa stage and become butterflies.
Catalyst Museum
Year 3 had a lovely time at the Catalyst Museum today. We explored the interactive section, watched a light show and made our own fossil.
Catalyst Museum
3McK really enjoyed learning all things science on their school trip to the Catalyst Museum. We got the opportunity to make our own fossils in our rocks workshop, as well as lots of challenges in our light workshop!
Science – teeth / egg experiment
This week we have been learning about teeth. We did an experiment to see how different drinks affect our teeth. We used eggs as their shells are similar to enamel.
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Aspirations week – Biomedical scientist
We ended our aspirations week with a chat from a lovely Biomedical scientist!
She told us all about the interesting journey of a blood sample and once again, many of us asked some great questions about blood.
planting
We are planting herbs, we will look after them and hopefully watch the seeds grow.
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Digestive System
We created the digestive system, using water for salvia, a masher as teeth, a bag as the stomach, vinegar as stomach acid and tights as intestines.
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Year One – Croxteth Farm
We’ve throughly enjoyed a fabulous day at Croxteth Farm. We fed lots of hungry animals, groomed the ponies and stroked the bunny rabbits and guinea pigs.
Active Science- Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists through Sport
A huge thanks to Jade and Josh from Everton in the Community who came into school to work with our Y6 pupils. We have used our scientific and mathematical knowledge to engage with a range of activities to help us understand the impact of diet and exercise on our bodies. We used a range of equipment to take accurate measurements and we discovered how air resistance can affect our running performance. A great day.
Science
Our butterflies finally got big enough to be released into wild. We enjoyed watching them grow but had to say goodbye to them.
