We run two different science clubs at different points during the year. Our Year 3/4 Club do loads of hands-on, practical experiments, including:

• testing our fingerprints to see if they really are all different
• building bridges to span gaps between cliff-tops
• finding ways to send messages silently across the hall
• making our own toothpaste and comparing it with shop-bought tubes  
• exploring chemistry with household products, identifying acids and alkalis
• building simple circuits and using them to find out which materials are good conductors
• making our own kits and flying them on windy days!

By carrying-out these investigations and sharing our conclusions, we are able to complete the CREST Superstar award, run by the British Science Association.  Last year, an impressive 28 children from years 3 and 4 completed this award!

In the Spring term, we embarked on a project to design, build, test and develop our own bottle rockets. We tried out a range of bottle sizes, materials, wings, nose cones and boosters, and blasted them into the sky them all with an air-powered launcher. We were amazed by how high and how far some of them flew - they went far higher than the roof of the Hall, and some of them landed at the other end of the field!