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British Science Festival

This month we celebrate science through the British Science Festival and the focus this year is on science in our society. To help you participate, we’ve prepared two activities which we call ‘Big Science’, science which will tell us about our lives and where people live… Read More

Science – A World Without Water?

We’ve all done the topic on water where we decide what we use water for each day and how it gets to us. In fact, one of the most popular school trips is to a water treatment works or pumping station. This set of activities looks at water from a… Read More

Science – how we work

There’s plenty of information about the human body that we learn from science and from PE but there are also a lot of questions children ask that go unanswered in the science and PE curriculum. In this set of activities we look at some of the questions about our bodies… Read More

Science – Micro-organisms

Sixty years ago this March, one of the world’s most famous scientists, Alexander Fleming, died. Ten years earlier he was credited with discovering penicillin, the first antibiotic, which went on to save millions of lives around the world. Penicillin is a substance derived from a mould, a type of micro-organism. Read More

Science: Identifying Trees

One of the finest aspects of the English landscape, be it open countryside, forest or even urban parks is the number and diversity of our trees. Very few children these days can identify trees from their leaves and this activity will help them gain greater knowledge of how trees can… Read More