Kenilworth Primary School

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KenilworthPrimary School

• 5th February 2007
• Our Science Week

CONTACT Kenilworth Drive Borehamwood Hertfordshir
e WD6 1QL Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
2673 www.kenilworth.herts.sch.uk/science
(resources/photos will be posted
here) d.humbles_at_kenilworth.herts.sch.uk
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Weeks In Advance

• Write asking for parent helpers - we also posted
  requests on the school website
• Look for grants to apply for if there are any
  available
• Book external people/trips (Set Point in my
  case)

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AimsWhat I wanted to achieve from Nursery to
Year 6

• Enjoyment and enthusiasm for science parents and
  children
• Raising the profile and acknowledgement of the
  importance of science
• Development of science vocabularyrelated to our
  school improvement plan
• Children to talk science at home and at school by
  discussing what they had done
• Revision and coverage of topics
• Bringing in parents to school

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Where I Began

• I went through and listed all the QCA topics for
  Science and put together all those that related
• e.g. I chunked Ourselves, Health Growth,
  Teeth Health and Keeping Healthy.
• I booked a Set Point workshop for each year group

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This Left 8 Broad Topics

• Ourselves ? Health Growth ? Teeth Health ?
  Keeping Healthy
• Light Dark ? Light Shadows ? Earth, Sun
  Moon
• Pushes Pulls ? Forces Movement ? Magnets
  Springs ? Friction ? Forces in Action
• Using Electricity ? Circuits Conductors
• Plants ? Plants and Animals in the Local
  Environment ? Variation ? Habitats ? Life-Cycles
  ? Micro Organisms
• Sorting Materials ? Grouping Changing Materials
  ? Materials Rocks Soils ? Keeping Warm
• Sound Hearing ? Changing Sounds
• Solids Liquids and How they can be Separated ?
  Gasses all Around Us ? Changing State ? More
  about Dissolving ? Reversible Irreversible
  Changes

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Next Steps

• I got together with the rest of the staff and
  they chose one topic each
• I gave them a list of topics along with some
  suggested activitiesand ideas for resources

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Resources I Used/Suggested
100 Science Experiments isbn 0746057571 (absolut
e bible!) The Little Book of Science
Experiments (download www.planetscience.com) Th
ere are a range of others, but these were the
main two
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Organisationof the Week

• Each teacher had to organise 5 different
  experiments for their topic and put each one
  together with all the resources a box
• 6 children (max per group) led by the adult and
  rotated around the 5 activities lasting half a
  day in total i.e. 35 mins per activity
• The boxes went around the classes according to
  the timetable
• Each class also had half a day led by Set Point

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I Made A Whole School Timetable of Helpers For
The Five Days
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Then Transferred This To A Weekly Timetable For
Each Year Group
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Organisationof the Boxes

• In each box there were
• All the resources needed for that experiment to
  cover 30 children in total
• The instructions (laminated) so that they were
  suitable for a parent, with limited scientific
  knowledge, to follow if necessary
• See page 2 for example plans

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Format For The Planning
I asked the staff to include specific things and
all follow the same formatso that all was
included and it was easy for parent helpers to
follow (I gave them one of my plans to model)

• Vocabulary
• A list of questions
• How to carry out the experiment
• The Science behind it explained in simple terms
• A list of resources

• I

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Before The Week Begins

• Collect all plans and make sure that everyone has
  a copy of Rota For Boxes
• Give everyone a copy of ALL the plans so they can
  work out what is suitable for their class and
  adapt/differentiate if needed
• Delegate where parents are going to be helping
• Let parents know where they are and when!
• Give timetables of this to teachersthese were a
  nightmare to organise...
• Phone the local paper!
• Bribe everyone with chocolate doughnuts
• Sort out lab coats and badges (we dressed up!)

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Things we could have done

• We intended to have an evening where children
  came back and looked at constellations
• We could have arranged trips (Year 4 did go to
  the zoo)
• We could have had more people in that were from
  science in industry/medicine

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What Id do Differently

• Give teachers the responsibility of organising
  their own parent helpers
• Collect the plans in plenty of time and check
  them thoroughly to ensure that all experiments
  take the same amount of time