Scarcroft Science

What Science do we learn at Scarcroft?

Please see individual year group pages for 'knowledge organisers' for each topic that those year groups teach.

Try at Home!

(see the fun links for more ideas)

Christmas Themed Science

Christmas Science A huge range of Christmas-themed experiments. Beware the odd, hard-to-find American ingredient.

Top 10 Christmas Science Activities

10 Christmas Science Experiments Ignore the 'preschoolers' part - these still look fun!

Rudolph Balloon Races

Halloween Themed Activities

Halloween Density Mr Cole demonstrated an experiment (and a little bit of a trick) about density in the junior assembly. Have a look at this for more density play at home.

More Halloween STEM Fun The same website as the above link has a load of nice activities. Some of the ideas are aimed at younger children, others are not. Fair warning: slime is heavily involved - it's always a favourite but it can be a pain to source ingredients.

Science Bob at Halloween Mr Cole's favourite website for Science Club activities has also listed some Halloween fun.

Fun Links

Bottle Rockets with Year 3/4 One of my favourite bits of science at school - launching bottle rockets with year 3 and 4. Great fun!

Fun Experiments and Demonstrations for Home This is a fantastic website, full of ideas for fun science to do at home. Most of the materials can be found at home, at the pharmacy or in town. For those who are really interested, each page has an explanation of how to turn the demonstrations into true experiments.

Pupil Voice

In March 2019, I interviewed children from across the school about their views on our Science learning. I was seriously impressed with some of complex and scientific ideas given by pupils from across all ages groups in our school. There were some genuinely lovely responses that I wanted to share. Here are some of the highlights:

"I know that I have to be safe. At Forest Schools, I check behind me when I chop wood" - Reception.

"Science is making inventions. You have to think about what to do before you do it and see if it works" - Year 1.

"I learned that a magnet needed to have a big surface to attract the most paper clips" - Year 2.

"Science is finding out if something works. You can even learn more than one thing from the same experiment" - Year 3.

"In Science, you get to see things that you don't normally see. And sometimes there's explosions." - Year 4.

"Science investigations are when you are trying to work out the answer to question by using different equipment." - Year 5.

"Yes, I like Science. It's super exciting and I get to learn about interesting things like why Titanic sank." - Year 6.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!

Mr Cole