Science in Action!

Welcome to our ‘Science in Action’ page. Below you will find some of the practical investigations and enquiries we have carried out across EYFS to Y6. You will also see some of the wider curriculum enrichment activities we have been engaging in, to help enhance our cultural capital in the world of Science…

Y4 Boggle Hole Residential

As part of their residential trip to Boggle Hole, Y4 took part in a mini-beast hunt, fossil hunting and rock-pooling.

Y4 Boggle Hole (Science Enrichment)

British Science Week
This year’s British Science Week theme has been ‘Change and Adapt’. To help celebrate this, Tranmere have been completing various homework activities that focus on this theme, taking part in a number of live lessons and…carrying out the Curly Wurly Challenge!

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Y5 Guiseley Taster Day – A Journey to Mars
Today, Year 5 visited Guiseley High to take part in a taster day themed around a journey to Mars. As part of their day, they visited the Science Department to have a go at filtering some Mars water!

A Journey to Mars

The Great Science Share for Schools 2024
This year, Tranmere have been engaging with the Great Science Share for Schools – a campaign that aims to inspire children and young people to ask, investigate and share scientific questions that are important to them. As part of this, they have been completing the ‘penny drop’ investigation in class and creating sustainable science poetry for homework.

GSSFS

Ingleborough Hall Y4 Residential
As part of Y4’s residential at Ingleborough Hall, all pupils went caving. Renowned for their limestone landscapes, the caves offer a range of features such as stalactites, stalagmites, flowstones, fossils and underground rivers – bringing their ‘Rocks’ unit to life.

Ingleborough

British Science Week
This week was British Science week, and this year’s theme was all about ‘time’. All pupils across school have engaged in a range of different activities, investigations and experiments centered around this topic.

British Science Week 24

Mars Day
To celebrate Mars Day today, pupils across school, from EYFS to Y6, have taken part in a range of different fun and engaging activities centered around the terrestrial planet! From taking part in STEM interactive live lessons and quizzes, to creating their own rockets, Mars Rovers (edible of course!), aliens, watercolour and bubble paintings and, attempting to program their own Scratch characters to land on Mars…

Mars Day

Chicks in KS1
To enhance and enrich the childrens’ learning within their current ‘Animals Including Humans’ science unit, KS1 have had a very special delivery this week! 20 eggs were delivered in an incubator with news that they would soon be hatching! This morning the children arrived at school to discover 2 chicks had already hatched, and by the end of the day they had a whopping 7!

Chicks

International Day of Girls and Women in Science (Activities)
To celebrate International Day of Girls and Women in Science, pupils have spent some time learning about important women from the industry. They have then independently researched selected Girls and Women of which they made detailed, vibrant and informative posters and biographies about. Pupils have also spent some time learning about the different job roles within the field of science (zoologists, biologists, and astronomers – to name a few!), and many have been inspired to think about these roles as potential future careers!

Women and Girls in STEM

International Day of Girls and Women in Science (Reading Areas)
To help celebrate International Girls and and Women in Science Day, reading areas across school have been filled with books that highlight inspirational Girls and Women in this field, both past and present.

Women and Girls in STEM Reading

Spaceship Earth Show
This morning, Puffins took part in an interactive Spaceship Earth Show presented by The STEM Hub. The children saw what it would be like to be launched into our solar system and what we use satellites for.

Spaceship Earth Show

World Soil Day

This week, Puffins participated in World Soil Day by joining in with Country Trust’s ‘Plant Your Pants’ campaign. This is a campaign being promoted by the Trust to engage people in understanding and investigating soil health.