Welcome to the new Science Council

I am absolutely delighted to welcome our new Science Council to their roles. Well done! Tonight we have been packing Science rucksacks and having fun with all of the equipment that is inside of them. You will hear more about them after half term!

It's all about bones!

We had an amazing time today at science club. Dr Holloway and Dr Hollis kindly joined us, once again, to talk about bones- what makes them strong, what makes them weak and what they look like inside. Have a look at our photos- you will see us testing chocolate bars to see which bar is the strongest. It is the bar which is the closest in structure to human bone.

Good vibrations with Fiona Western.

We have had a great time exploring sound with Fiona tonight. We made rice dance, tested out our sense of hearing and had fun making coat hanger vibration detectors.  Many thanks to Fiona for organising such a hands on session.

The Dentist returns!

Once again, Chris May joined us at Science Club  to talk about teeth and dentistry. This time he demonstrated how to use disclosing tablet to identify where we need to focus our brushing. Cameron,  a very willing volunteer,  was silenced as he crunched a pink disclosing tablet,  brushed for 2 minutes and then looked to see which areas were still pink. His upper molars were still pink showing Cameron that he is missing removing plaque from these teeth.

The group asked lots of great questions, including ' what is the most disgusting surgery you've done? ' We heard about infections,  jaws getting stuck and how to drain pus. Lovely!

We are so grateful to Chris for giving us some of his very valuable time. See you again soon!

Chris May at science club

We are very lucky to have Chris May, a local dentist, joining us tonight. We are firing questions at Chris at a fast rate.

The forces in cars

Tonight we have been joined by Reuben Shaw from Shawfix  Garage in Dibden Purlieu

Them bones, them bones, them STRONG bones!

What a fantastic time we had at science club today. The session was run by Dr Jude Holloway and Dr Veronica Hollis from Southampton University. We are so very grateful for the time they put into planning this inspiring session which had us captivated from beginning to end. My thanks must also go to Clare, John and Archie, young leaders from Noadswood who were such a help in running the small groups. I think Archie rather enjoyed playing with the clay too!

Today we were thinking about our bones; what makes bones strong and what can make them weak. We investigated bone strength  using chocolate bars, some of which bear a resemblance to the internal structure of our bones! I do not really want to say much more, as it will spoil it for future science clubs! One chocolate bar was much stronger than the others! Take a look at us testing using bags of sand as weights.

Next we looked at the bones in an x-ray of a hand and a leg. Using light-weight air drying dough, we made our own bones. This was such a fun activity and I am just hoping your bones got home in one piece!