Parent information: Assessment trackers are in the back of every exercise book for students to record their grades. PATHS reflection sheets are also completed in the exercise books after each assessment. KS3 Revision Guide and Workbook 60AED on sale at parents’ evenings or in the main office during school hours.
If your child enjoys Science:
- If your child enjoys experimenting, ask if your school has a science club
- Buy a pH testing kit and encourage your child to check out some of the foods in your kitchen or the soil in your garden
- Take a fishing net and investigate habitats – try pond dipping, or if you go to the beach, rock pooling
- Help your child to experiment with light by making a simple pinhole camera: all you need is a box and some film or light sensitive paper
- See what happens when you add water to cornflour and then squeeze it. Is it a liquid or a solid? Get your child to investigate other cool science experiments
- Grow your own crystals together, using sugar or salt, boiling water and a jam jar
- Get your child to try making their own version of a lava lamp using a plastic bottle, coloured water and oil
- You can make a messy volcano by finding out what happens when an acid (vinegar) mixes with a base (baking soda)
- Look at the moon and stars through a telescope together
