Grenoside School Weather Watchers

 In February, we started our first STEM Weather club with the Year 2s. It was a great year group to trial this club with as, back in Year 1, our children learn all about the weather in one of our half-term themes. I therefore wanted the club to be open first to Year 2s to add to what they had learned previously and hopefully continue to foster a healthy curiosity and interest in the weather. Cumulonimbus beginning to dissipate over our school. March 2024.  Our first session was all about clouds, with the club learning about the formation of clouds through a bit of theory, scientific questioning and videos featuring epic timelapses of various cloud types such as cumulus and stratus.  Our experiment was to create a cloud in a bottle. We needed just a few items for this one: a 2 litre bottle, water and matches. We had to fill the bottles approximately 3/4 full of water. It was important to have some air space at the top, for obvious reasons! We then shook up the bottle to sa...

  Hello! On behalf of Grenoside Primary School, located in north Sheffield, let me welome you to our weather blog. While the input on this blog is from myself - Mr Vincent, a Level 3 Teaching Assistant working in Key Stage 1, much of the content will be provided by our amazing pupils. This will come through simple pupil voice, observations recorded by them from our on-site Davis weather station as well as photographs and videos of experiments and interesting weather events.   So, over the coming weeks and months, I hope to fill this blog with all of the above and more, as we strive to add our passion for the elements as a unique selling point for our school. All this endeavour is to be, of course, filtered through the lens of the great British weather, so come along for the ride because as we know... our weather rarely stays the same and hopefully you can keep up with us! Kind regards, Mr S Vincent