SCIENCE AT ST JOHN'S

Science makes a significant contribution to the education of our children. Through their investigations and enquiries children are able to acquire an awareness of:

• The importance of science in everyday life
• The part science has played in the development of many of the things they use in real life
• The need to treat their environment with care and sensitivity
• The need to treat all living things with the respect they deserve as part of God’s creation.

St John's Science Week 2025

What is British Science Week?

British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths that takes place between 7th-16th March 2025.

The theme this year for British Science Week is Change and Adapt.

This Year's Whole School Challenges

To fit with this year's theme "Change and Adapt" all the classes and the staff were asked to participate in 2 Whole School Challenges.

Whole School Challenge Number 1

Our first challenge was to investigate how the children grow. Each class was asked to measure the height of everyone in their class and calculate the average height.

The classes were then asked to create a cardboard cut out of a child who represents the average height of the children in their class.

Whole School Challenge Number 2

Did you know?

There is an actual Guiness World Record for the longest stretched Curly Wurly!

During Science Week our Whole School Challenge is to attempt to break that World Record- Changing and Adapting the shape of the Curly Wurly.

Visitors from Victrex

Once again this year, we were lucky enough to have scientists from Victrex come to work with all of our classes. 

Live Lessons....

The children had the opportunity to tune into lots of interactive live lessons during the week based on this years' theme Change and Adapt.

Poster Competition....

A whole school competition was also launched to find entries for this year's British Science Week competition. A STEM prize was provided for the winning entry from every class.

A Real Life Scientist

During Science week we were also lucky enough to have Mrs Brindle a Science teacher from Cardinal Allen who came in to work with all of the children doing different experiments throughout the day.

Other Science going on around school.........