Squirrels Heath Junior School

In Year 4, we have started an investigation looking at the affect different drinks have on our teeth.  We are using eggs as a substitute for our teeth as their shells will show a similar reaction to a tooth.  We will be leaving the eggs submerged in the different drinks for a period of one week, checking them each day for any changes and recording our results. We have made our predictions and ensured we have a fair test.  Elif, in Palm class, said she thinks coffee is the worst for your teeth because of the caffeine in it and she has seen cups stained by having coffee placed into it.  While, John said that coke will be the worst because of the high sugar content. We are also conducting an investigation using toothpaste, to see if the use of toothpaste has any effect on the harmful impact that some drinks have on our teeth. Only time will tell and we can't wait to find out!

    Planets In Our Solar System The Solar System consists of the Sun and the eight planets that travel around it. We  use the word ‘solar’ because it means ‘related to the Sun.’ The eight planets of the Solar System in order of distance from the Sun are Mercury,  Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In the playground, u sing cones and various size balls we made a simplified scale model of the distance the planets are from the sun.

 In year 6, we became nutritionists in DT as we looked at processed food packaging. We identified the nutritional information, as well as the ingredients to determine whether there are any advantages to eating processed foods.