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Circuit Detectives
Monday 25th March 2024
Students are challenged to find the faults in a series of electrical circuits, taking a systematic approach to problem solving.
Practical Engineering
Monday 25th March 2024
Students learn how a basic motor works and use their knowledge of electrical circuits to build a working vacuum cleaner from everyday materials.
Active Evolution
Monday 25th March 2024
Pupils learn about variation, natural selection, adaptation and evolution through a series of practical and discussion activities that really help to develop their understanding.
Micro:bit Robots
Monday 25th March 2024
Children code a BBC micro:bit to control a robot buggy and explore the importance of testing and improving their designs.
Exploring Sound
Monday 25th March 2024
What is a sound? Your students explore different ways of making noise in a carousel of activities.
Spy School
Monday 25th March 2024
Join our top secret spy school and battle through a series of maths challenges; including cracking codes, reading hidden messages, solving sequences and discovering hidden co-ordinates.”
Micro:bit Codebreakers
Monday 25th March 2024
Children will learn how to use a BBC micro:bit to send messages to each other, considering the importance of privacy while trying to work out who their secret agent partner is.
Crime Scene Science
Monday 25th March 2024
A mystery white powder has been discovered at a crime scene and students must become forensic scientists to discover what it is by carrying out a series of chemical tests.
Changing State
Monday 25th March 2024
“It will explode!”; “Nothing will happen.”; “It will melt AND evaporate.”
Your children test their predictions by heating up different materials.
K’Nex Workshops
Monday 25th March 2024
Pupils become engineers and design, build and test working models using K’Nex. Workshop challenges include fairground rides, opening bridges, Mars Rovers and rubber band cars.
Water Rockets
Monday 25th March 2024
Children design and decorate plastic bottle rockets which are safely launched outside using water and compressed air. The rockets are spectacular and can reach heights of 30m, or can be launched horizontally as rocket cars.
Creature Creations
Monday 25th March 2024
Children investigate species adaptation and learn about habitats by making their own ‘Super Animal’ out of soft dough and other materials.
Water Wheels
Monday 25th March 2024
How will we keep the lights on when the fossil fuels run out? This workshop introduces some of the renewable and non-renewable ways that we generate electricity.
Floaty Boats
Monday 25th March 2024
Children design and build rafts using a variety of materials, testing and refining their designs throughout the session.
Discovering Materials
Monday 25th March 2024
Children discuss what different objects are made from and use their observations and knowledge to predict what will happen in a ‘drop tube’ test, before creating their own new material.
Air-Powered Mice
Monday 25th March 2024
Students discuss how air can be used to make things move before launching paper mice with empty plastic bottles and comparing the outcomes.