Can sounds travel through solids, liquids and gases?

1st July 2025Kate Thompson

Today, we carried out an experiment to see if sounds can travel through solids, liquids and gases. First we made a prediction as to whether we thought that sound would travel through the different mediums. Then we started by investigating if sound could travel through solids. Partner one rested their ear on the table while partner two tapped underneath. We recorded how clear the sound was. Next, we then used a bowl of water and a plastic bottle to investigate how sounds travel through liquids. We put the bottle into the water and gently rested our ear on the bottle. We then tapped the cubes in the water to see if we could hear the sound. The last experiment we conducted was to test to see if sound travels through gases. We used a balloon to test this. We placed the balloon next to our ear and our partners talked into the balloon from varying distances. We concluded that sounds can travel through solids, liquids and gases but from the results of our experiment, they travelled best in the gas and worst in the liquid.

Demonstration Comprehension

1st July 2025Laura Hamill

Today, our crew worked hard in their demonstration comprehension lesson. We focused on the next chapter of our class text, Dark Flood, and tested our fluency by aiming to read 185 words in one minute, in line with the Year 6 expected standard. Following this, we worked with Miss as she modelled how to accurately answer a comprehension question, thinking about the best strategies that we could use. We focused on questions that had arisen as a problem for us based on our recent assessments. Once we’d done this, we then worked in pairs to attempt to answer some of our own questions, before coming back together as a crew to check if we all agreed on the answers.

Summer Slice

26th June 2025Nicola Robson

Crew Robson have loved our summer slice this week. We have revisited some science standards and they have really impressed me with how much they can recall from the past two years!

UKS2 Presentation of Learning

26th June 2025Laura Hamill

UKS2 were very proud to present their learning to their adults yesterday afternoon. After giving an introduction explaining all about our expedition titled: At The Coalface, the children explained what we had done during our case studies to answer our guiding question: How has the mining industry shaped communities?

Children then got to share their amazing final product – a lapbook that brought all of their hard work from this term together whilst showing off their fantastic artwork. Adults were able to take part in a gallery walk to view their child’s work and were also able to take part in other activites – looking through expedition books, taking part in a Kahoot quiz to test their mining knowledge and an opportunity to create some charcoal art of their own!

Thank you so much to everyone who attended and made it a lovely afternoon!

LKS2 celebration of learning

24th June 2025Stacey McClare

Thank you to everyone that joined us this afternoon for the LKS2 celebration of learning. It was wonderful to see so many parents and carers joining us for our final COL of the year. We have thoroughly enjoyed all of the expeditions this year and our final product this time has honestly made all children so proud of their achievements during the summer expedition. The leaflet they have produced for the final product is of high quality and showcases a range of work from the expedition. We know Magna are going to love giving the leaflet out to the general public over the next few months. As we explained earlier, it will also be available on their website along with all the other work we have created during the expedition. Well done to all children today, those children that spoke so well at the beginning of the COL, all children for sharing their paragraph of writing and taking parents and carers on a gallery walk. Then to everyone who took part in the volcanic eruption experiment. A fabulous celebration of learning, well done everyone!

Sound starts in MT

23rd June 2025Stacey McClare

Today we started our science slice on sound! We explored and identified how sound is made by vibrations. First we looked at a variety of instruments, thinking about how the sound is made. We then looked more into vibrations and volume, linking back to the vocabulary we explored in our activate. From here we listened to the sounds in the classroom and outside, noting these down on our whiteboards. We worked in mini crews to discuss the sounds heard, the sounds that surprised us, which sounds were familiar and which sounds were the loudest and quietest. We then moved onto the ears thinking about external and internal ears. We thought about other animals that fall into these two categories. Next we explored the ear in more detail, looking at the parts and their function. After this we thought more about how sounds are made and what we have to do to make a sound. We voiced lots of objects that make sounds, then explored a range of musical instruments. We tried to work out how the different instruments made a sound. Finally we took part in 3 short investigations to find out more about vibrations and sound. Our exit ticket assessed our understanding where we wrote a small paragraph about how sounds are made.

Story Map

20th June 2025Elizabeth Frost

This week the children have been creating story maps about the gingerbread man, from this they have created their own versions how the gingerbread man crossed the river “he could use a surf board” and “he could use a jet pack”. We turned these ideas into drawings and sentences remembering our capital letters, finger spaces, and full stops.