More revision page updates

We have added a few more resources to the revision page. Check it out here and see if there is anything interesting for your year group.

Revision update

Revision lists have gone up on the revision pages for years 5, 6 & 7
Year 8 you need to do everything! You now have the ibook full of blanks to test yourself with on the same revision page as above.
Not long until exams now.
IRP

year 6 revision

Here is a year 6 revision ibook to download and use to get ready for the exams.
you need the ibooks App on your device to read this ibook.

year 5 revision

Some revision here for year 5 in an ibook
This is the link
If you have trouble downloading it there will be some instructions on the revision page of the science blog.

Year 5 visit the British Wildlife Centre

On Thursday Year 5 went on a trip to the British Wildlife centre. This was a brilliant day that was enjoyed by everyone. We were able to learn all about the animals that are native to Britain and we also learnt how to be mammal detectives so we can spot the signs of different mammals.

We started looking at rats. This room was very smelly! We learnt about the differences between the brown rats and black rats. We then saw many of the animals that live in the hedgerow. This included weasels, harvest mice and hedgehogs.

We then went to see some of the larger animals. Here are just a few of our favourites:

The fox in the photos below is called Flo. She was many of the students' favourite animal of the day. 

We also saw polecats and learnt that they are the smelliest mammal in Britain. 

We saw the adder. We learnt that the centre only needs to feed these once every fortnight! 

The otters were also very popular. We found out that they have two sets of eyelids. One set is transparent so it is a bit like wearing goggles.

It was a beautiful day so we stopped to have lunch outside in 'deer corner'. Once we had finished lunch we were able to feed the fallow deer. 

After lunch we saw the Eagle owl. We found out that their eyes are very large in relation to their head. If humans had the same proportions, our eyes would be the size of tennis balls! 

Our last stop was to the red squirrel enclosure. Here we were able to see a number of the very rare red squirrels. In the photograph below the squirrel was gnawing on a deer's antler. We learnt that deer lose their antlers every year and these antlers are full of nutrients so are very popular for animals to eat. 

Field studies

Year 8 have been revising the common entrance syllabus. 

This week we looked at field studies. We worked out the population density of daisies on the golf course. 

We placed the quadrats down in four locations, chosen at random, and counted the number of daisies. Once we had recorded our results we calculated the total number of daisies and the total area tested. From this we could then calculate the average population density. 

Nutrition

Morning practical exercise re nutrition and digestion. 

 

Pressure studies

7N had a chance to utilise all they have learned about pressure today. 

They set up water rockets and used air pressure to power them. 

They investigated how the angle of trajectory and the amount of water in the rocket changed the flight length. 

A lot of energy went into pumping the rocket. 

It was great fun launching the rockets but it could well be that it was not a completely fair test because of the gusty wind today. 

8S special science lesson.

Today 8S learned all about overcoming gravity. 

Team work was very important

And communication

Our top of cliff safety officer made sure everyone safely finished their climb. 

Some managed to do much better than they thought they were going to. 

It was a glorious afternoon 

And everyone got so hot it was time to do a bit of sinking and floating afterwards. 

Your Dorset corespondent 

IRP

Year 2 come to the lab

Last Thursday year two came down to the lab to learn all about rockets.

Pupils from 8S who have finished their scholarships were on hand to help the year 2s make bicarbonate and acid rockets.

You can do this at home with baking powder and vinegar. Dilute acid does not stink as much though!

This was a borroca tube rocket powered by a chemical reaction. 

They didn't go very high so we went on to investigate water rockets, launched by air pressure. Physics in action here.

Brilliant photography by Mrs Clabby caught this rocket mid flight. 

The groups then made air powered rockets out of paper.

Some where very well decorated

A launch team set off each rocket

This was another rocket that uses Physics rather than Chemistry to power it.

For the grand finale the children saw how to set up and launch a methane rocket. This was the most spectacular of the chemical reactions of the afternoon. Fortunately our in-house photographer caught the sheet of flame as the rocket took off as can be seen below.

We all had a great afternoon and I would like to thank members of 8S for all their help.

IRP