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Welcome to the website of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Yardley Wood, Birmingham. If you are worried about a child please speak to a DSL in school or telephone 01213031888 - CASS. If you think a child is in immediate danger please phone 999. We are an Operation Encompass School

Science Curriculum

Year 6: Mrs Healy came in from Bishop Challoner and supported our pupils in dissecting hearts for their science lesson. They had an absolute blast!

2023-2024: Here are a few of our Science Displays from around school...

Science Week June 2023: What a great week we had from making our own bionic hands to making bath bombs!

Rail Project June 2023 celebration event: We won the KS1 competition and we won best communicators. We had to be interviewed by a panel of engineers and then demonstrate how our vehicle moved.

Rail Project June 23 Final products...

Rail Project June 2023 Day 2: Decorate

Rail Project June 2023 with groups from KS1 and KS2. Day 1: Design and build structure.

British Science Week Poster Competition on 'Connections' entries for OLOL! Wish them luck!

Science Ambassador's Meeting: We discussed British Science Week and what we wanted to do for it. We have decided that we are going to hold a 'Dress up as a Scientist' Day and take part in the annual Science poster competition. The theme this year is 'Connections' that appear in the world of science they like and be in with the chance of winning an array of prizes!

Some examples of Science across the school shared via twitter! Lets celebrate this wonderful work.

Severn Trent Assembly November 2022: We learnt all about the important job Severn Trent do and why we need to look after our wonderful water!

Here are some of our science displays for our pupils to use as an learning aid, it will be with the help and support of the science ambassadors to find appropriate texts and models from the science cupboard to enhance their classes learning. They will also change their displays to reflect the current unit they are studying.

We welcome our newly elected Science Ambassadors for 2022-23...

JULY 2022: Year 5 Engineering workshop at Bishop Challoner.

Science project winners prize: A fun jam packed afternoon filled with science experiments...

Severn Trent Assembly for Key stage 2 'The Wonderful World of tap water'. February 2022

SCIENCE AMBASSADOR MEETING 2 27.1.22 Today we discussed monitoring Science homework challenges and how they could collect evidence from their class, giving them the responsibility to choose two children in their class to receive the 'Scientist award' for fantastic science work during this half term and finally exploring the new lunch time science in a pocket resources that they will take in turns to use in leading science activities during lunch time. They loved the new resources and were excited to get started. Great meeting, well done all.

WINTER STEAM PROJECT WORK: Examples of some completed tasks by pupils...

AUTUMN 2: PUPILS HAVE BEEN WORKING SO HARD IN SCIENCE THIS HALF TERM AND HERE IS A SNAP SHOT OF SOME OF THEIR WORK...

Year 6- Pig's Heart dissection. Year 6 had the best science lesson with Mrs Healy, they had to identify, draw and name the main parts of the human circulatory systemwith practical examples of heart dissection to support recording (pigs heart). There was such a buzz coming from the classroom and it was great to hear the children's enthusiasm about their learning.

Our Science Ambassadors had their first meeting to discuss their role and they were given their first task. They have to monitor the Science display in their classroom. They are checking for key vocabulary being displayed, suitable texts to use in class, models and equipment and lots more.

2021-22: Science at OLOL Autumn 1

WHOLE SCHOOL SCIENCE WEEK JUNE 2021: EYFS and Year 1 made chromatography butterflies, Year 3 made playdough, Year 4 a bionic hand, Year 5 made egg parachutes and Year 6 made bath bombs! OLOL loves science!!

JUNE 21 SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS!! CONGRATULATIONS ON PRODUCING A FANTASTIC PROJECT!

JUNE: WHOLE SCHOOL VIRTUAL SCIENCE FAIR 2021

OLOL Science Fair 2021

APRIL: LIVING EGGS: WHOLE SCHOOL EXPERIENCE WATCHING EGGS HATCH INTO CHICKS AND NOW THEY ARE IN THEIR NEXT HOME READY TO BE TRANSPORTED TO THEIR FINAL HOME IN A LOCAL ALLOTMENT.

VIRTUAL STEM SPACE DAY APRIL 2021

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