Year 5 had fun lately in Science, experimenting with Raisins!!
Year 5 Science, ‘Raisin’ some science fun
Year 5 Science
In Year 5 last week, they measured the movement of their shadows and the sun with various different experiments!
Say Watt?
Year Six this term are the St Matthew’s ‘in house’ electricians and this week we have been making circuits – we even made one with a dimmer switch using a pencil (there’s a video below if you want to have a go!)
We are putting all this practice in for next week – Science Week. During Science Week Miss Manhire has set us the task of making a working burglar alarm. She wants us to put in place to figure out who keeps taking all her green pens. We will let you know how we get on – and who the culprit is!
How to make a dimmer switch using a pencil http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwfqwTo3K0g
Year Five
As we approach the end of September, Year Five have been keeping themselves very busy. This Thursday we warmly welcomed Wimbledon High students into our class. They were here to help lead some science experiments all about our Space Topic.
“They were really friendly, I enjoyed working with them.” Rocco
“We did an experiment where we span a ball around our heads on a rope. This was to investigate how planets orbit. We found that the closer the ball is on the rope, the quicker it orbits. So, the closer a planet is to something, the quicker its orbit.” Harry and Liana
The Topic Overview for Autumn term can be found here.
Next week, we have our second Sport Leaders course, but more about that next week! I hope you all have a restful and enjoyable weekend.
Miss Dyer and Year Five 🙂