High Legh Primary School

Autumn Topic 1

Electricity

This is a science based topic. We will begin our topic exploring electrical games and identifying how they are powered. Through the topic we are learning to:

• identifying common appliances that run on electricity
• constructing a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers
• identifying whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery
• recognising that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit
• recognising some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors 

Our current class book is...

The Fireworks Maker's Daughter