Earlier this week, Year 6 kick-started their new project ‘The Circulatory System’ with a very exciting activity – a heart dissection!

Pupils become super surgeons as they dissected and explored the different parts of the heart. First, we found the four chambers and we learnt how the heart acts as a pumps in order to move deoxygenated blood to the lungs and oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. We found the vena cave (which is the vein which blood enters the heart through) as well as the aorta. We also saw how thick the heart wall is and how this is important in order for the heart to pump the blood around the body.

In the afternoon, we looked at a model of the heart to help us visualise its vital role in the circulatory system. We then spent some time writing out how blood travels around the body, making sure we used all of the new scientific vocabulary we had learnt from the morning.

Well done Year 6! What a fantastic start to our science topic!