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March 2021 Vol 7: Issue No. Twenty six
Excellence Through Partnership
Science! Innovating for the future.
EXPERIMENT This week all of our children have been taking part in ‘Science week’. This year, the theme was ‘innovating for the future’. We kicked off our week with a live Zoom session with Dr Mandy Hartley where we learnt about all things DNA and ancient skeletons. We looked at how DNA is used by scientists in real life situations, from solving crimes to developing vaccines and feeding the world. She showed us how to take DNA from a banana using simple kitchen equipment! From this, every year group engaged in a range of science activities including: designing future robo- bugs for a purpose (space exploration, rescue missions and much more); investigating the best environments to grow plant seeds and plants by changing the variables; exploring the speed and design of paper aeroplanes; designing and constructing electrical circuits for games and much more. All of the children had so much fun, asked lots of questions and made predictions about their investigations. We had a great week and hopefully it may have inspired some children to become scientists in the near future. Remember there is still a chance to enter the poster competition. The competition closes on 30th April 2021. For more details, please visit https://www.britishscienceweek.org/plan- your-activities/poster-competition/ .
Thanks to Miss. Humphries & Mr. Hayat for the story.
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