This term, the students in Chitah and Tamar classes will explore the states of matter and
their impact on the world around them. They will consider how natural disasters affect
their environment and the communities that experience them. The students will be
researching and collecting information about a wide range of natural disasters and
reporting in their own newspaper reports about their findings. They will be interviewing
real life journalists to find out how to be a good fact finder and how to write a cohesive
newspaper report. Alongside this they will be exploring ways to present their findings to
their peers and parents with a range of different science experiments that they will present
in a science workshop! Finally the students will be finding ways to raise money to support a charity that helps people who have been impacted by a natural disaster to help them in
their time of need.
Teacher’s Reflections
This terms projects was so much fun and the kids really engaged with having a Science
link to the project. They were able to complete a wide range of projects and deliver their findings to their parents and other students in the school by creating their own science
workshop. It was great to see them pick up on so much new vocabulary and be able to
apply their correctly in their learning. I also really enjoyed seeing them work so hard to
design something to sell and to raise money for a charity of their choice. We did have to
change our original idea as we wanted to create our own newspaper at the start but this
became challenging to fit in around all of our science experiments and teaching them so
many different natural disasters. Overall, I really enjoyed this project and so did the kids!
– Emily Bacon
Students’ Reflections
“My favourite part was The Natural History Museum and ice experiment.” – Efe
“My favourite part of the project was painting the volcanos.” – Olivia
“I would like to go on more trips linked to the project” – Leon
