Today Year 5 and 6 pupils took part in an unforgettable hands-on science lesson, dissecting real hearts and lungs to explore the inner workings of the human body. With gloves on and curiosity sparked, the children examined the organs up close, identifying key features such as the heart’s chambers, valves, and thick muscular walls, as well as the lungs’ spongy texture and branching bronchi.

When they dissected the hearts, they were able to see the chambers of the heart, identifying the aorta and putting their fingers through to each ventricle. After dissecting the heart, they explored a lung and used a pump to pump air into the lungs, seeing them expand.

Today Class 9 and Class 10 learnt about the heart and how it pumps blood around our bodies. They started by thinking about the basic structure of the circulatory system before exploring the heart and blood vessels further. They labelled their own diagrams of the heart, including the atriums, ventricles and valves. After this, they made a model of the heart. The cup represented the heart, dyed water to represent blood, straws used as the arteries, blue tac as the valves and the balloon as the pump.