New swimming pool to open in Olympic year

Crosfields is delighted to confirm that planning approval for their new swimming pool project was granted by Wokingham Borough Council in January. The state of the art pool is the next large scale development project for the School.

Science

Autumn Term

Topic: Variation

In this topic the children will be taught to:

  • Understand the difference between living and non-living
  • Classify animals into different groups
  • Recognise humans are animals
  • Observe the difference and similarities in animals and plants
  • Understand that animals live in different habitats and why

They will be introduced to:

  • How to use a table to record information
  • The idea of a fair test

Spring Term

Topic: Forces and Movement

Pupils will be taught to:

  • Investigate how pushes and pulls can change the shape of objects, sometimes permanently
  • Understand that forces can make things move, speed up, slow down and change direction
  • Observe that the same amount of force does not make all objects travel at the same speed or cover the same distance
  • Experiment to find how different surfaces and different heights can also affect the distance an object travels

The second topic, Materials, will extend into the summer term.

Summer Term

Topic: Characteristics of Materials, and Grouping and Changing Materials.

(This combined topic continues from the Spring Term).

The children will be taught to:

  • Understand the difference between natural and manmade materials
  • Classify materials according to their names and also their properties
  • Observe how some materials can be altered through squashing, bending, twisting and stretching, and that sometimes they can return to their original shape
  • Experiment in order to see the effects heating and cooling can have on some materials
  • Investigate why we use different materials for different purposes
  • Plan and execute own investigations.

Topic: Plants and animals in the local environment

In this topic we shall:

  • Study some of the plants and animals living in and around a pond
  • Recognize how different animals are adapted to live in different habitats
  • Look at the life cycles of some animals
  • Question the effect pollution has on the environment and how we change things.
  • Learn to record our investigations in a variety of ways