Another science club with a slime theme – this time we started off making the ever-popular ‘Oobleck’ by mixing cornflour, water and food colouring. First of all we tried to decide whether it was a solid … … or whether it was a liquid It all depended on how much pressure you put onto the […]
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Science Club made these colourful cut-out bird models which could perform a clever trick – they could balance right on the end of a fingertip without falling off! The hidden secret was that the birds had some extra cardboard folded underneat the tips of their wings. This changed the position of the centre of mass […]
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This week in Science Club we had a challenge – we had a calculator that had run out of battery power and we needed to get it working again. How could we generate some electricity? We were able to make a simple battery using just a copper coin, a zinc coated nail and some wires […]
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Hello Year 6, Here’s this week’s home learning… Maths Home Learning 8 Feb Measures
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