A huge thank you from all of Y6 to Dr Rob Hutchinson who gave a fascinating presentation about spectroscopy and how this can be used to find the answers to questions such as – what is the sun made of? How do we know that our water is clean?
Ask your child about the world’s biggest laser in Japan!
Today, Iwan and Emily from Sheffield University came to tell us about their work in the field of biomedical research. They explained to us how studying fish and flies is helping people to develop medical techniques for humans! They brought in fish and flies for us to look at and taught us about how their genes are very similar to those of a human. We used basic gene codes to draw mutant fish and flies. Some of our creations are below.
On Wednesday, Jennifer came to teach us all about the eye and also about her job as an ophthalmologist. She explained why some people have problems with their eyes and explained some of the ways different glasses or surgery can help to correct the problem.
Thanks very much Jennifer, the children really enjoyed it!
We have all had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day.
We had a visit from Dr Mike Boyle who has written a book called ‘Canary Across The Mersey’, which is all about a childhood experience. Ask your child to tell you about it.
We have made bunting and bookmarks, had a quiz, a book swap and read to the children in Reception.
What will you be reading at the weekend?
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