Science

...ence Handbook 2025 Curriculum......through rational discussion. We use the Kapow Science programme to structure Science lessons. This p...... to answer questions about the world around us. Science in action : uses and implications of scien...

PTA

At Shoreditch Park we are passionate about working together to ensure our children and wider school community get the best possible experiences in life. The PTA aims to work together to: Run events where people can get to know each other and enjoy themselves Raise funds for resources that the...

Autism Resource Provision

...e taught daily. PSHE, P.E and Science are taught weekly, all year round. Other subjects, such as R.S, geography, history, music, art and computing are taught on a rolling cycle to ensure that interventions such as SALT and life skills (OT) can be covered. ARP Curriculum Offer 2025-26 Autism Reso...

Enquiring Ebony Homework

...work linked to their Topic or Science focus. Children are tasked with making creative projects that encourage curiosity and foster inquisitive thinking. Look at some recent examples of finished projects! Enquiring Ebony Homework Challenges - Animals Enquiring Ebony Homework Challenges - Material...

Computing

... of Computing in mind: Computer Science – the understanding of coding and programming across a range of physical devices and digital resources. Information Technology – the range of skills required to operate and manipulate specific programs, systems, and content. Digital Literacy – the ...

ASPIRE

Intent ASPIRE is an aspirational curriculum and school vision that empowers children to flourish in their academic, personal and social learning. Within our broad and balanced ASPIRE and PSHE curriculum, we are able to nurture and support the spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development...

Art and D&T

Art and Design Curriculum Intent At Shoreditch Park Primary, we offer a creative curriculum which embraces the arts and broadens children’s horizons. Through art and design, we inspire and challenge all children to think innovatively and develop creative understanding. Children are encouraged to...

Year 1 - First Week Back (Summer 2 Week 1)

Year 1 has been very busy during our first week back this term. We have been finding fractions of shapes and quantities in maths, writing letters to Rapunzel in POR, learning about Ibn Battuta in topic and observing root systems in science. Here are some of the amazing examples of our work

Year 1 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 18th January 2021

Year 1 have had a very productive week. In POR, we have been focusing on poetry and have taken part in performances of poetry and have learnt to use descriptive language and rhyming words in our writing. In science this week, we have been looking at food chains and polar habitats

Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 11th January 2021

This week in Year 5, we have been working really hard to perfect our poetry. We have continued to look at the features of poems we have studied, we have written our own poems and have also had the chance to take part in a class debate and perform our poems in front of the rest of the year group. In...

Year 3 - Rock Detectives

Year 3 have all been rock detectives this term! We have been learning all about the formation of metamorphic rocks, igneous rocks and sedimentary rocks in our science lessons. We all took part in a fun science experiment, where we created our own volcanic eruption using baking powder, vinegar and...

Year 5 - Learning

...quencing and structure. In Science, we learnt how to describe how some plants reproduce. By the end of the lesson, children were able to explain the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction; identify the functions of the parts of a flower; and describe ways that plants are pollinated in...

Year 6 - Science: Experiment with Different Forces

In science we experimented with different forces, here we are testing objects with different surface areas and how air resistance acts on them

Year 5 - Half Term Enquiring Ebony Homework - Art, Science and History

Year 1 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 25th January 2021

This week in year 1, we started our new text 'Traction Man' by MinI Grey. Children were given the opportunity to make predictions, explore the text and complete a retell of the story. In maths we were learning to identify and sort shapes. We went on a 3D shape hunt around our homes and sorted 2D...

Year 3 - Home Learning - Ancient Egypt and Plants

This week we have been starting many of our new topics and we wanted to show you some of our work! We have made Egyptain death mask linking to our topic Ancient Egypt as well as started learning about our science topic Plants!

Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Work

Our new science topic for this half term will be 'Animal Antics'. To prepare for this, Year 1 were asked to create their own model of a minibeast using a range of materials. The children have been very busy researching interesting facts about their minibeasts and a minibeast hotel has even...

Year 1 - Home Learning - Week 5

Year 1 has been very busy this week. Have a look at some of our science, maths and literacy work

Year 4 - Home Learning

Year 4 have adapted excellently to the google classroom and are showing us all that they are resilient and adaptable learners . Here is an example of some of the excellent work that has been completed so far

Year 1 Trip to the Museum of Childhood

Year 1 had a blast today at the Museum of Childhood today. We got to see lots of toys from the Tudor and Victorian times which we have been learning about in our Topic lessons. We even used our knowledge of materials from our science lessons to talk about the different materials the toys were made...

ARP - Seuss Class Learning About Air Resistance

...rning about air resistance in Science. They tested difference sizes of bag to see which created the most drag....

ARP - Seuss Class Trip to the Science Museum

...ember Seuss class went to the Science Museum. We travelled by bus and tube. When we got there we saw lots of transport from the past, including an old motor car which looked a lot like the one in the story 'Mr Gumpy's motor car'. We are going to include some of these vehicles in our stor...

Year 3 - Science Museum Trip

Year 3 had the opportunity to visit ‘The Wonder lab’, an exhibition held by the science museum. The children were able to take part in the chemistry bar, see lightning strike, play with forces on giant slides and even travel through space under a canopy of stars. They really enjoyed the...

Year 3 - Science in the Autumn Term

This half term our topic is Rocks! Over the past few weeks we have been learning about metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rock. We have been researching, sorting and using play dough to make different types of rocks. Have a look at our learning below!

Year 6 Investigate Electricity

Yea 6 today started investigating the properties of electricity in groups by creating circuits and exploring the properties of different conducive circuits such as tin foil. By the end of an investigative afternoon, all Year 6 children were able to create a circuit with a cell, lamp and a piece of...

Year 6 Body Pump Science - Annotating the Heart

Year 6 - STEM Day

Some lucky Year 6 children today took part in a STEM day in central London. Children had to work together with other schools to build a miniature masterpiece. We looked at the importance of technology in the world and used our engineering skills and team work abilities to create a structure. To...

Year 6 - Science: Environment

In science, Milligan today had an interactive lesson with our environment. While continuing to learn about classifying animals we took our search to the school grounds to search for vertebrates such as amphibians and invertebrates such as arthtopods. We explored the school grounds finding animals...

Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 25th January 2021

... well as earth & Space in Science. We have been impressed with the work that has been submitted this week, remember to keep looking on the stream for announcements and attending the register at 9:00 and circle time at 2:30....

Year 6 - Our Science Work on the Circulatory System

Year 4 - Notes of Advice and Science Experiment

... we started our experiment in Science to help us better understand tooth decay. Here are some examples of some excellent 'egg'xperiments....

Year 1 - Design & Technology

Design and technology (DT) in year 1 is all about helping children to develop their creativity and problem-solving skills through designing and making their own products. DT encourages children to explore and experiment with materials, tools and techniques to create models, structures and objects....

Year 2 - Exploring animal habitats

Year 2 had a fantastic time exploring animal habitats in the school garden. They searched for habitats and microhabitats, discovering a variety of animals and plants along the way. The children loved investigating outdoors and were excited to see what they could find!

Year 5 - Hackney School of Food

Year 5 had a fantastic school trip to the Hackney School of Food, where they learned new skills and worked together to make delicious Moroccan kofta. They learned how to be safe in the kitchen, chop and dice vegetables, and the science behind making food taste great. They carefully chopped...

Seuss Class - Science 2024-25

Year 2 - Outdoor Learning at Hampstead Heath

Year 2 enjoyed a wonderful day of outdoor learning at Hampstead Heath, engaging in pond dipping and minibeast hunting as part of their science curriculum. Equipped with nets, magnifying glasses, and an abundance of curiosity, the children uncovered a variety of fascinating creatures from wriggling...

Year 6 University Week

Year 6 have really enjoyed working with Into University for the past week. They've had a chance to take part in an exciting range of activities; they've completed science experiments, acted like journalists and interviewed some famous figures in STEM and they've had the chance to visit...

Year 5 - London Zoo

...als Including Humans topic in Science. It was a beautiful autumnal day and we had the zoo virtually to ourselves, allowing us to observe and study all manner of rich and varied wildlife, including: lions, giraffes, komodo dragons, spiders, tortoises and monkeys....

Year 2 - Hampstead Heath Trip

...learned about habitats in our Science lessons and ask the Hampstead Heath leader some interesting questions....

Year 2 - Spitalfields City Farm

...of farms and animals from our Science and Geography lessons....

Year 3 - Briggs Class Trip to the Science Museum

... the Wonderlab section of the Science Museum. We had so much fun exploring all the immersive activities and developing our Scientific skills. Some of our favourite sections were the dark room, the friction slide and the gravity testing ball game....

Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 1st February 2021

... well as earth & Space in Science....

Year 5 & 6 - Science Learning Autumn Term

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Science in Year 1

Year 1's have been really enjoying their science lessons this term. They have really immersed themselves in the different experiments we have performed and have worked collaboratively to showcase their new understanding of different animal groups. This week, we had lots of fun learning about...

Science in Seuss Class

In Seuss class we have enjoyed learning about the planets in the solar system in science. We learnt lots of interesting facts such as, earth takes 1 year to orbit the sun, giving us seasons and that earth spins on its axis every 24 hours giving us day and night. We also learnt that moons orbit...

Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Homework and Science Lessons

To prepare for their science lessons this half term, Year 1 were asked to make a plant using mixed media. Enquiring Ebony had set a challenge to research interesting facts about their plant. We then began our first science lesson for the half term by learning all about garden plants. We completed...

Seuss Class - We Are Extraordinary Gardeners!

Seuss class have enjoyed making cress heads. We carried out an experiment in science - testing variables - different conditions for growing plants. We made predictions and recorded our observations

Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 22nd February 2021

This week in Year 5, we have started looking at our new book, David Almond's Skellig, we have written setting descriptions based on the shed from the book which have been fantastic and full of descriptive language. We have also started our new forces topic in science and our new biomes topic in our...

Year 3 - Science: Plants

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Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 8th February 2021

This week in Year 5, we have finished our explanation texts and have created our own inventions with multiple different features that we have designed throughout the week. We have continued looking at Earth & Space in our science lesson and slums in our topic lessons. We have completed...

Year 6 - Science: Bird Feeders

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Year 6 - Science: Blood

Today, Zephaniah Class focused their learning on blood. They learnt about the importance of the different parts of blood and the jobs they do in the body. We discussed in length Blood donation, what that means and why we need to have this to help one another. To finish the lesson we made 'Blood...

Year 5 Science - Animal Reproduction

... about animal reproduction in Science. This lesson we were focusing on amphibians and insects. We carried out research and presented our findings to the rest of the class....

Year 6 - Science Museum: Wonderlab

...h to experience a trip to the Science Museum, so far we have been exploring the Wonderlab and taking part in an amazing Fire and explosion show!...

Rights Respecting School Competition

Steering group need you! Steering group have created a display for the reception area but they want you to draw a picture representing one of the rights below. We have added some ideas for the pictures you might like to draw, please use these or come up with your own. Winning entries will go up on...

Pasta Car Challenge

...d Vikram Yadh from Affordable Science to conduct the “Pasta Car Challenge”. Every class in the school, from Nursery to Year 6 (with the exception of Year 3, who were on a trip), undertook the challenge to design a wheeled vehicle from dried pasta that would travel the furthest distance i...

KS2 Science Museum - Forces

Today we welcomed Edoardo and Phil the Frog from the science museum to teach us about forces and how they work in every day life. We looked at the laws of motion and looked at really great experiments which showed how forces work. This is the first of three events we have working with the science...

KS1 - Electricity

This week KS1 had the most amazing assembly - it was all about ELECTRICITY! A scientist called Dan taught us lots of interesting information about the discovery of electricity and then did some mind-blowing experiments! Many children had to be volunteers and had to do some really tricky and...

Grey Class visit Spitalfield Farm

Last week Grey class went on an exciting trip to Spitalfield farm as we are studying animals as our science topic. We learnt about what animals eat and got to feed them! It was a really fun day out

Sharratt Class - Exploring Autumn

Sharratt class exploring 'Autumn' in their science topic about the changing seasons

Science - Using Electricity

... from the Royal Institiute of Science visit us in school to show us a number of experiements showing how we manage to use electricity every day - despite it being so dangerous! We witnessed some of the earliest demos that ever showed how electricity can be used and harnessed, developed by two of the...

Year 1 - Capacity

Year 1 have been learning all about capacity and volume this week. The children used estimation and investigation skills to find the capacity of different containers. They also measured and recorded volume in ml

Year 6 - Electricity

Year 6 are studying electricity in science and this week we looked at creating circuits using buzzers and motors and how to draw them scientifically. Year 6 also worked out that using a peg and tin foil we could still create a circuit that worked

Year 3 Explain How Igneous Rocks are Formed

In Year 3 we have been focusing on writing explanation texts to clearly explain how things happen. These explanation texts link to our learning in science by explaining how igneous rocks are formed

Year 5 Science - Properties of Materials

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Year 4 - Science: Electricity

...learning about electricity in Science at the moment. On Monday the children were experimenting with complete and incomplete circuits and had to explain why the light bulb did not light up when the circuit was incomplete....

Year 3's Science Museum Trip

...e Wonderlab exhibition at the Science Museum. We especially enjoyed the experiments that linked to our learning about forces and light!...

Year 3's Science Museum Trip

...s half term so we went to the Science Museum to take part in a special exhibition with lots of interactive exhibits to help us learn more. We really liked learning more about mirrors, shadows and the colours that make up white light. We also had the opportunity to learn more about other areas of sci...

Year 3's Natural History Museum Trip

Year 3 went to the Natural History Museum this week to support their learning about rocks. We had the opportunity to see lots of fascinating rocks in real life and learn more about how rocks are formed. Our favourite parts were travelling on an escalator through the earth's core, finding out...

Year 3's Fossils

Year 3 completed their learning about rocks by making their own ammonite fossils. Ammonites were sea creatures that lived 240-65 million years ago. Ask us how they turned into fossils that we can still see today, we're very good at explaining!

Year 3's Assembly Rocks

...on the properties of rocks in Science and the non-fiction book The Pebble in My Pocket, in Power of Reading. Achieving Aisha made a special guest appearance and we sang some of our favourite songs too - take a look!...

Year 3 Learn Where Our Food Comes From

Briggs class went to Hackney City Farm on Wednesday for a science workshop that supported our learning about plants. We learnt how different kinds of farms work and where our food comes from. We were able to match different crops to the products we see on the shelves and discuss the life cycles of...

Year 3 - Science: Light

As part of Spring 1 science, children in Year 3 were learning all about light. They learnt about how we see objects (light from a light source shines on an object, it then reflects into our eyes); learnt all about mirrors and tested some true or false statements; and finally learnt about shadows....

Year 1 - Observing Changes in Trees During Autumn

Year 1 have been just like Enquiring Ebony this week in science! We have been observing changes in trees during Autumn. We collected leaves of different shapes, sizes and colours and compared and discussed the leaves in groups. The children then sorted leaves into categories such as rough/smooth or...

Year 2 Science - Staying Healthy

Year 2 have been focusing on staying healthy in our science lessons! We looked at eating a balanced diet, the food pyramid and staying clean. In this lesson we investigated the effect exercise has on our body. We found that our hearts beat faster, we became sweaty, we panted and became tired! We...

Year 2 Science - "Growing Up"

...rning all about growing up in Science. We stared off by thinking about what babies need and what they want. We followed on by discussing how we have changed since we were babies. When we were babies we could not walk, but now we can. When we were babies we could not feed ourselves or write our names...

Year 2 - Topic and Science Enquiring Ebony Homework

... to our learning in Topic and Science. If you need any resources to complete your Enquiring Ebony Homework then your teacher will be happy to help!...

Year 2 - Science: Growing Up

Year 2 had an exciting science lesson this week learning about babies. This is part of our Growing Up science topic. We already knew so much about babies as many of us have younger siblings at home. We learnt that you need to support a baby's head when bathing them because they aren't able...

Year 2 - Science: Growing Seeds

...arning all about gardening in Science this half term. We have discovered the different tools a gardener would need and we have also examined lots of different seeds and beans. We have carried out experiments and investigations to see what seeds need to grow, and if it matters where and how you plant...

Year 2 - Exploring Habitats

This week Year 2 started to explore habitats around the school during science lessons. We looked for things that were living, once lived or have never lived in different habitats. We looked in the playground and the school garden. You can see they found snails who were alive, feathers from birds...

Year 1 Science - Touch

Year 1 have been exploring their sense of touch this week in science. We used our feet to feel cotton wool, leaves, sand, water and crumples paper. We had to think of words to describe how they felt like soft, rough, spiky, slippery and cold. It was a lot of fun!

Year 1 - Science: Materials

This term in Year 1 we are looking at materials. We have been looking at what materials different objects are made of such as rock, metal, plastic, glass and brick. We have been grouping these objects according to their properties. We have even gone on a materials hunt around the school!

Year 1 - Science Trip to Clissold Park

...dying plants all half term in Science Lessons. This week we went on a trip to Clissold Park.The children looked at deciduous and coniferous trees and spotted the roots of trees. They then went on a nature hunt, collecting small samples of wild plants and identifying different parts of plants. They f...

Year 1 - Plant Detectives

...ar 1 have been enjoying their Science lessons this term. We have been plant detectives! The children have been learning all about garden plants and wild plants. We have been using magnifiers to examine plants closely. We have also been exploring our local area to find what plants are growing in and ...

Year 6 - Schools Across the Ocean project

This year, Year 6 took part in the British Council Schools Across the Ocean project, collaborating with partner schools in Brazil as part of a global initiative supporting COP 2026. Through the project, pupils explored the interconnectedness of ocean ecosystems and developed a deeper understanding...