Primary Science Quality Mark (PSQM)

As a school we are aiming to achieve the Primary Science quality mark (outreach). To achieve this we aim to raise the profile of Science.

We have developed some principles of Science which we aim to use in all of our Science lessons they are:

In our science lessons:

We are excited about our Science lessons

We are investigating for ourselves

We are asking questions to increase our Science knowledge

We can talk about the Science we have learnt

Our Science is linked to the world around us

We are using our English and Maths skills in our Science work

Through the project we aim to 

• Ensures strong and positive impact: Children make good progress, building and consolidating their knowledge and skills, developing positive attitudes about science and its value to their lives and globally. Teachers and children enjoy their science lessons.

Our World Week

During the first week back after Christmas in January 2022 we spent time working on 'Our world week' identifying the environmental problems in the world and deciding what we can do to address those problems

We also found out about COP 26 and the pledges that have been made during the summit.

First Lego League Challenge

We entered the Caterpillar First Lego League Challenge, we entered the competition in December 2021 . The competition involved programming a robot and creating a project to solve a cargo problem.

Our robot is was programmed to undertake lots of missions, they can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onsI9ke2Vh

We had to create a project related to cargo, the brief was given by the IET for the project which was:

• Identify a specific problem related to making the transportation journey of products better.
• Research your problem and your solution ideas.
• Design and create a new piece of technology, equipment, or method of transportation that could improve the journey of the products.
• Share your ideas, collect feedback, and iterate on your solution.
• Create a creative and effective presentation that communicates your solution at an event.

For our project we decided that we wanted to improve lorries for the area we live in. As we live in an area where the roads are small and windy we decided that smaller lorries would be better. The issue with this is that they wont be able to carry as much load. To solve this problem we decided to add a trailer to the lorry, but as trailers are hard to maneuver we thought it could be driverless. As we have spent time looking at helping the environment we decided to make it electric.