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Miss Harrison
Oct 4, 2023
STEM Challenge at Bolton School
4 of our Year 6 children attending a STEM challenge at Bolton School. They took part in challenges linked to technology, maths and...
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jenwormald
Jul 13, 2023
Freddie the Tortoise Visits Avondale 🐢
A huge thank you to Florence in 5W and her mum for teaching us all about tortoises this morning. Florence presented beautifully to the...
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Miss Harrison
Jun 23, 2023
Science Enquiry
Year 3 have been using a range of enquiry skills such as observing over time and comparative tests to explore what plants need, and the...
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dianemears
Jun 21, 2023
Tomato Experiment
Last week, Gardening Club did a tomato experiment. We took the stalk off then rubbed toothpaste on top of the tomato and planted it...
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Mrs S Birch
Jun 19, 2023
Year 4 Science and Eco week
Year 4 had a great Science and Eco week last week and really enjoyed all of their different activities!
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Miss Harrison
Jun 14, 2023
Science Boffins
This week, as part of Science Week, Boffin Joel visited Avondale. He carried out experiments for the children to see involving slime,...
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Miss Harrison
Jun 14, 2023
Trashion Show!
As part of our Eco/ Science Week, the children created wonderful outfits made out of rubbish. They reused a variety of items such as...
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ARobinson
Jun 13, 2023
Litter Picking in Reception
As part of our science/eco week, Reception picked up lots of litter this afternoon. We thought of lots of different ways we could ...
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Mr Frankish
Jun 13, 2023
Science Week!
Year 2 enjoyed our lesson with Boffin Joel this morning as part of our Science and Eco Week activities in school. We used a plasma ball...
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Mrs Nuttall
Jun 8, 2023
A Trip to the Woods for Year 1!
Just before we finished for the half term holiday, Year 1 went on a trip to Sunnyhurst Wood to complete their learning in History and...
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ARobinson
May 22, 2023
Fruit tasting and more in Reception!
Today, we have tasted fruit from The Hungry Caterpillar story and wrote words to describe them. We then designed our repeating pattern...
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Miss Johnson
May 22, 2023
Lung Capacity
6J tested their lung capacity by seeing how much water they could displace when blowing into a bottle.
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Miss Johnson
May 22, 2023
Pulse Rate in 6J
6J investigated what happened to their heart rate after exercise. We made predictions, calculated the average, constructed a graph and...
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Miss Harrison
May 19, 2023
UCLAN Science Festival
Some of the children from the Year 3 Science Club travelled to UCLAN in Preston for the Science Festival. The children had an amazing...
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matthewclegg2
May 16, 2023
Studying The Heart In Year 6
Year 6 pupils worked in groups to put together the pieces of the heart and then insert the correct labels. They then used this...
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Miss Harrison
May 15, 2023
Magnets
Year 3 have been testing out magnets! We noticed that the magnet was attracted to some metals, but not all of them! With a bit of...
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ARobinson
May 4, 2023
Little Visitors!
The children have loved writing about what they can see in our tank. We have had some superb writing about our frogspawn and tadpoles and...
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Miss Harrison
Apr 28, 2023
Friction
Year 3 have been investigating friction today. They looked at how a car travelled on different surfaces. They noticed that the car...
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Miss Harrison
Apr 28, 2023
Forces at work
Year 3 have been looking at how we use forces to make toys work. We classified whether an item used a push, pull or both to make the toy...
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Miss Harrison
Apr 28, 2023
A Moth!
Willow has been sharing the progress of her moth from home with the class over the year and today she shared with us her fully hatched moth!
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