This afternoon, Year 6 were invited to Queen’s College School to take part in two special Science Workshops, linked to the Science topics we have studied this year so far.
One Workshop was all about Classification. We had to think carefully about how to classify and why classification is important. We were given a challenge to classify Sebastian the axolotl! We were told he was either a fish, an amphibian or a reptile and then used statements about Sebastian to classify him using a Venn diagram. This was not as straightforward as it sounds, as axolotls have some characteristics of fish, amphibians and reptiles. We learned that they are amphibians but are unusual among amphibians in that they reach adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis. We loved seeing Sebastian in his tank in the classroom, which really brought the challenge to life.
The other workshop was all about the circulatory system. We loved putting on special lab coats and goggles for this one! First, we made models of blood with water, food colouring and different foods to represent plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Next, we were allowed to investigate real animal hearts to learn more about the features of the heart. We were even allowed to dissect the hearts using very sharp scalpels!
We had such a good time and were able to consolidate so much of our prior Science Learning. Thank you so much to the staff at Queen’s College for providing us with such exciting Science opportunities. We really appreciate it.
Going to Queens college was really fun as we got to use there science lab and act like real scientist. I really enjoyed the part when we were in the lab and we made our own blood and touched a really sheep heart which was a bit disgusting but fun. Thank you to the teachers for organising this fun trip and experiencing being real mad scientist!
Science in Queens college was so fun. I have learnt that there was one thick chamber out of the 4 chambers in the heart. We saw that queens has a pet axolotl called Sebastian and it was our job to work out if it is a fish, an amphibian and a reptiles . After all that discussion we found out that he was a amphibian . I really enjoyed this trip and I learnt different thing . I hope you can learn the same things as year 6 did. Thank you for the volunteers who helped us.
It was great although the heart was my least favourite and seeing the axolotl was my favourite part but overall it was fun.
Going to Queens college was very fun as we got to use their science lab. I enjoyed when we got to touch a real sheep brain. Thank you
to the teachers for organising this trip.
YES, it was so fun I loved dissecting the sheep’s heart.
Our trip to Queens College was so much fun and I learnt so much about the blood and the areas of the heart. I also classified an Sebastian the axolotl as a amphibian. Thank you to the teachers and staff at Queens College and our teachers for organising this.
It was so exciting looking at and dissecting a lamb’s heart. I felt a bit sorry for the lamb though. Thank you Queen’s College for inviting us.
Eeeuhhhh! Thankyou so much Queen’s college! I LOVED touching the heart it was so disgusting but REALLY fun.
I really enjoyed this trip. I learned so much about the circulatory system and the axolotl was really interesting.
I enjoyed Queens College! My favourite part was when we got to dissect a lambs heart and when we made blood with our marshmallows as our white blood cells. Thank you to the people who organised this amazing trip.
I had fun going to queens college we got to do some cool science and made fake blood and also got to draw our own fish
Thank you queens college for organising this event. My favourite part was when we got to dissect a real heart and when we got to see Sebastian the axolotl.
Thank you Queen’s collage for letting us go there to learn about Classification and the Circulatory system, it was a learning experience.
Thank you Queen’s College. It was really interesting, I learned so much! It was really fun.
I loved going to Queens collage .Touching the heart was disgusting but it was an amazing experience!
Queens college was so much fun!! I found it very interesting to learn all about the cardiovascular system in even more detail. Thank you to Queens college for inviting us for such a fun afternoon!!
This was really fun and interesting.
I really enjoyed going to Queens College.
My favourite workshop was the one where we had to guess what an axolotl was. An amphibian, fish or reptile. We used facts based on the axolotl to find out who he is.
Thanks Queen College for inviting us to your school I really enjoyed it .
i loved making our own creature .
It was interesting and I liked it.
This was a very interesting opportunity. I learned quite a lot and I am so interested to find some more information and this has motivated me to learn some more.
This workshop was so nice .It was very interesting opening the heart of a lamb and really weird.
My favourite part was opening up the heart. It was amazing 🙂
Many thanks to Queens Collage for inviting us. I really enjoyed the science lessons and when we could touch the heart!
Going to Queens College was really fun as we got to use their science lab. I really enjoyed the part when we were in their lab and we made our own blood and touched a real sheep heart which was fun. Thank you to the teachers for organising this fun trip.
It was very fun and I can’t wait for the skating trip!