Category: Science

Our yearly hands on hatchery, saw pupils exploring the production of chicken and eggs for food, teaching pupils about the life cycle, embryology and genetics. All eggs successfully hatched - 5 boys and 4 girls. 

Did You Know?

• Nearly 50% of an egg's protein and most of the vitamins and…

Year 11 have been learning about the structure of the heart this week as part of their 'Human Body' topic. Today they have carried out a dissection and used their knowledge to identify the chambers (atria and ventricles), and the main vessels (aorta, pulmonary vein, pulmonary artery and vena…

Year 9 have been using their knowledge of acids, alkalis and the pH scale to create their very own chemical rainbows!

Willow Bank pupils recently had the opportunity to learn about, understand and engage with animals from Bowland Farm's mobile farm. The farmer brought a selection of lambs, pigmy goats, chickens, ducks and two alpacas!

In the Genetics and Evolution topic studied at KS3, pupils learn about…

Practical lifecycle experience at Willow Bank where the Science lab turned into a creche facility. Here expectant pupils and staff took turns in monitoring and recording the lifecycle process of the hatching chicks.

• egg wobble and cheeping just before hatching commences
• chicks pecked their…

Year 10 have had another busy lesson separating liquids using simple distillation. They set up their equipment independently, and separated a mixture of ink and water

This week Year 10 have been using the separation methods that they have been learning about to separate various mixtures based on their properties. Here they are separating salt from a rock salt mixture that is used to melt ice and snow using filtration and evaporation.

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Year 10 have prepared agar plates today with swabs taken from various contact areas around school as part of their Health, Disease and Development of Medicines topic. I wonder what will grow over the weekend?

Year 11 pupils created their own homemade chicken burgers focusing on visual food cues and how it activates the brain regions involved in taste perception - kinesthetic science.

Year 11 have been preparing their own microscope slides showing leaf cross sections in order to identify the plant cell organelles.

Year 9 pupils were hands on, building animal cell models using plasticine in Science, developing their knowledge of cell structure and their functions.

• Cytoplasm    
• Nucleus    
• Cell membrane  
• Mitochondria
• Ribosomes

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Key Stage 2 pupils have been studying living things and their habitats in Science. This week we have been looking at human life cycles. Pupils described how humans are set apart from other species, as mammals, and the different stages they go through from birth to adulthood.