This week, Mrs Watts led our whole school assembly in her role as Science Leader.
Her assembly sparked such a range of our Learning Powers, with the top ones being Curiosity and Questioning and Making Links.
The children were filled with excitement as she climbed to the top of the PE apparatus and dropped different objects from a height.
Prior to dropping, the children had to predict what would happen: would the object bounce? Break? Smash?
It was wonderful to listen into their conversations about what would happen to the ball, egg, grape and watermelon! It was even better to hear their awe and wonder on seeing the outcome.
Who would have thought the grape would just bounce away while the watermelon split open? Why? What caused these two things to behave so differently?
The size of the object? The weight? The hardness of its outer skin? All these questions came up from what the children had observed and it was so interesting to hear their reasons as to why they thought certain things had happened.
The assembly didn’t end with all the answers, instead it ended by celebrating all the questions it led to and how scientific discovery is never ending: whatever outcome is discovered, it leads to other questions that we want to know the answers to. Curiosity and Questioning really are such important Learning Behaviours!
Thank you Mrs Watts for such an inspiring assembly.
Enjoy your time with family and friends over a slightly cooler weekend, hopefully. I wonder what discoveries you will all make?
Mrs Pipe
Her assembly sparked such a range of our Learning Powers, with the top ones being Curiosity and Questioning and Making Links.
The children were filled with excitement as she climbed to the top of the PE apparatus and dropped different objects from a height.
Prior to dropping, the children had to predict what would happen: would the object bounce? Break? Smash?
It was wonderful to listen into their conversations about what would happen to the ball, egg, grape and watermelon! It was even better to hear their awe and wonder on seeing the outcome.
Who would have thought the grape would just bounce away while the watermelon split open? Why? What caused these two things to behave so differently?
The size of the object? The weight? The hardness of its outer skin? All these questions came up from what the children had observed and it was so interesting to hear their reasons as to why they thought certain things had happened.
The assembly didn’t end with all the answers, instead it ended by celebrating all the questions it led to and how scientific discovery is never ending: whatever outcome is discovered, it leads to other questions that we want to know the answers to. Curiosity and Questioning really are such important Learning Behaviours!
Thank you Mrs Watts for such an inspiring assembly.
Enjoy your time with family and friends over a slightly cooler weekend, hopefully. I wonder what discoveries you will all make?
Mrs Pipe