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Our Lady and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

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Year 6

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Keep an eye on this blog to find out what we have been learning about this half term.
Below you will also find the timetable and homework for this week.

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Investigating shadows

Posted: Jan 16, 2023 by: Year 6 (Year 6) on: Year 6 Class Blog

This week in Science, we have continued our learning on light by investigating how shadows are formed and what affects a shadow's size. We created our enquiry question together as a class - 'Does the distance from the light source affect the size of the shadow?'. In order to test this enquiry, children were tasked with creating their own shadow puppets in which they used to explore this question. 

We discovered that the further away from the light source, the smaller the shadow became due to a smaller area blocking the light from passing through.

Once we had explored this enquiry question, we then used our knowledge of how shadows are formed to create our own shadow puppet show for the rest of the class. 

The children were immersed in this science lesson and worked as scientists throughout. 

Below are the timetable and homework for this week.

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