Our KS3 home-schooled children has created posters based on various topics such as how we obtain food, food groups, and a balanced diet which they have covered over the last half-term.

A balanced diet contains the different nutrients in the correct amounts to keep us healthy.

Imbalanced diets can cause obesity, starvation and deficiency diseases.

The children have discussed areas in detail such as energy, looking at factors that affect this.

Other topics covered have been related to how a plant makes its own food- the process of photosynthesis.

Our home-schooled children have created models/posters based on the topics from their Daily Science booklets such as Living things inherit a combination of traits from their parents.

The children have been learning about the following key concepts e.g. Traits and Heredity.

Every organism requires a set of instructions for specifying its traits.

Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to the next.

Genetics is the science of heredity.

During Science some of the children have been learning about DNA.

DNA (short for deoxyribonucleic acid) is the single most important molecule
in living cells.

DNA is contained in the chromosomes, which are located inside the nucleus of a cell.

The children took part in a hands-on activity looking at what DNA looks like using a banana.

The activity followed on with an exercise discussing how the DNA looked like.

This term our young learners have been learning about living things that have basic needs that help them stay alive.

They took part in a hands-on activity yesterday to see how a plant drinks water.

This experiment involved placing celery in a glass of coloured water to see how the plant drinks the water.

The children were able to record the results once they saw what had happened.

Our home-schooled students have been describing how the digestion system works in humans.

Focus points were to know what the mouth, tongue, teeth, oesophagus, stomach and intestine do to help us digest our food as well as knowing the order of our digestive system.

Digestion is a scientific way of describing how we break down our food.