It’s Spring term and spring term means “Circuits”! Notoriously, the children love it and the teachers dread it: the classroom is ether full of tissue paper as we carry out an investigation to measure the brightness of a bulb; full of buzzer noise; or worse still, failing batteries and bulbs so that a circuit won’t even work!

However, we overcame all the usual problems today, as the children merrily counted the number of tissue papers needed to stop the brightness of a bulb, as we increased the number of wires into the circuit – and it worked! Hoorah!

They predicted, checked variables, conducted the investigation and worked collaboratively to do so, whilst problem solving along the way if one of the components failed. 

All we have to do now is write a conclusion and draw a graph! Simples…if only!