Diamond Jubilee Sports Day

This year our sports day was very special. All the events had a 'Royal' theme including 'Changing of the Guard', 'Stacking the Tower of London', 'The Royal Tea Party' and the 'Queens Coronation Race'

Making the right connections

As part of our Science topic we learnt about electricity, using circuits, batteries, switches and light bulbs. To demonstrate some of the circuits we built them into models that lit up in various ways. The results are amazing!!!

ROBOT

ROBOT

ROBOT

ROBOT

ROBOT

LIGHTHOUSE

LIGHTHOUSE

FLOWER

FLOWER

SUNSHINE

SUNSHINE

CLOCK

CLOCK

CLOCK

Network Olympic Festival

We had a chance to practise our sports skills and develop our Olympic values of respect, friendship and excellence... and it was great fun too!

Being switched on!!

Today we learnt all about using switches in electric circuits, what materials act as conductors of electricity and what materials act as insulators.
We used home-made switches with paper clips, screws, safety pins and aluminium foil. We also tested to see if rubber, coins, paper, wood, plastic and keys would conduct or insulate.

This switch was made using a folded peice of card, covered top and bottom, with aluminium foil!

IT WORKED!!! (can you see the bulb is lit?)

This switch was made using safety pins to complete the circuit across two screws that the crocodile clips were attached to. This also worked as a conductor. We tried replacing the safety pin with rubber, wood, paper or plastic and the bulb did not light up. They were insulators.


Our results were:
Conductors                                                    Insulators
Coins                                                               Rubber
Keys                                                                Wood
Safety pins                                                      Plastic
                                                                        Paper

                                                                      

Making connections!

Here we are at work using a selection of electrical components to tackle the challenge

 "Can you make the bulb light up?"

When the connections were all made and the circuits complete the bulbs lit up. 

Seeing the light!!!

This week we will be trying out different ways of using circuits with batteries, bulbs and wires. We will discover how to make a bulb light up when correctly connected to a battery using wires.

 Click HERE to visit the BBC Science clips and learn about circuits. Try out the quiz and see how many answers you can get right.

To learn more look at this video about simple electric circuits.

 

 

 

Summer term 2012 - Making connections

Our topic this half-term is 'Making Connections'

One theme we will is explore in 'Making Connections' is Electricity.

As usual the children have raised lots of interesting questions for us to answer, such as:

• How is electricity made?
• How does electricity get to our homes?
• How has electricity changed our lives?

To find out how electricity is made and how it gets to our homes click HERE

 

You will also learn about how dangerous electricity is.  

 So STAY SAFE and NEVER PLAY WITH ELECTRICITY!

This clip is all about how electricty travels around London - especially important to us because we are London Base.

For a glimpse of how electricity has changed our daily lives click HERE