Science lessons for Year 5 and 6 have been ‘out of this world’ since Term 3 started. The students have been learning all about the Solar System and where we fit into it. They have looked at the rotation of the Earth on its axis and how that relates to the movement of the Moon, the Earth’s orbit around the Sun and how and when the world experiences different seasons.
As well as that, things took a mathematical turn when the students explored the real distances between the three celestial bodies. They considered these mind-blowing figures and attempted to scale them in order to create their own tiny versions depicting the distance between the Moon, Earth and the Sun.
