Science Week 2023

The theme for this year’s UK Science Week was Connections, and our budding scientists took part in a range of practical scientific activities and experiments in the Primary School.

Our Nursery and Pre-School children were first to head to the Science Base, and with some help from the P7 pupils, were able to build a Da Vinci Bridge, examine their own fingerprints with a magnifying glass and take their own fingerprints. They also set up an experiment to show rainbow water travelling upwards against gravity through a process called capillary action.

Another activity involved building a skeleton! Children were given a bag of bones and by putting the correct pieces of bones inside a body outline on the floor, were able to create their skeleton.

Our older pupils were able to build Da Vinci bridges with broomsticks, pencils, lollipop sticks and even matchsticks. Designing bridges out of paper to support increasing weights, pupils learned about food chains and food webs, drawing arrows between species to show connections. Pupils were able to hypothesise what might happen when one species is taken out and how scientists are working hard to protect habitat connections.

Some of our pupils were fortunate to take part in Live Science Lessons, and P7 pupils answered fascinating questions from our P1 pupils about space, including, ‘What kind of cheese is the Moon made of?”.

Many of our pupils have been working hard designing Connections posters for the UK Science Week Poster Competition which will soon be displayed in the Science Base.