Welcome to Room 6's blog and first blog post!

We thought a great place to start would be to tell you about our recent trip to Walmsley Park! Walmsley Park is just down the road from Wesley Primary, we visited it to learn more about our nearby Freshwater Ecosystem, which is our recent science topic.

We walked from school to Walmsley. We could see Alice(who visited us at school the week before) and Kate waiting for us.

We split into two groups and learned different things with Alice and Kate. They talked to us about the sensitivity of different living things and we used this chart to help us identify some of the ones living in our nearby stream.

We learned more about Phosphates and Nitrates. Here we got to be scientists, testing for Phosphates.

We learned that freshwater ecosystems need phosphates and nitrates, but too much is not good. We can get too much in our streams if we wash cars and the soap goes into the drains!

Here we did some more testing for Nitrates. We learned that we should wash cars on grass. If the soap goes to our streams, phosphates and nitrates build up and it makes too many weeds grow - these can clog up our streams and use up all the oxygen - no good for the other living things!

We got to take a closer look at what is living in our streams.

This drain reminded us that water runs from our roads, schools and other areas into our streams, which then flow into the sea. We want to remind you to be careful with all your rubbish - bin it! If it goes down the drain, it ends up in our parks and then in our seas. This is no good for our freshwater ecosystems! So please take care with your rubbish and where you wash your cars.

We have been keen to learn more and to be able to keep our freshwater ecosystems nice for us and also for future generations, and you should too.