This week, Year Two began their new science topic all about humans, health, and hygiene.
In today’s lesson, we learned about the famous nurse Florence Nightingale and how her simple ideas about keeping hospitals clean completely changed healthcare. The children discussed why washing hands and staying clean is still so important for our health today.
To explore this further, we carried out an experiment using bread.
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One slice of bread was placed straight into a sandwich bag without being touched – our control slice.
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Another slice was passed around by everyone before washing their hands (straight after break).
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The final slice was passed around again after everyone had carefully washed their hands with soap and water.
The children made some brilliant predictions about what might happen over the next two weeks:
“I think the dirty hands bread will go green and fluffy!” – Luna
“The clean hands bread might stay the same because there won’t be any germs on it.” – Niyah
“I think all bread grows mould, but the dirty one will do it faster.” – Jolyon
We’ll keep a close eye on our bread bags and check back in two weeks to see which slice grows the most mould.