Year Three have been learning about the different parts of a plant and the important job that each individual part does.

Firstly, the children labelled a diagram of a plant and watched a short rap about plant parts. They learnt that bright petals attract insects to a flower. Bees especially like to drink sweet nectar from a flower and while doing so they become covered in pollen from the stigma. When the bee flies to another flower it transfers the pollen onto the other flower thus fertilising the flower. Inside the ovary then seeds can be produced and scattered once the flower dies.

Once pupils had correctly labelled their diagrams, they used them to aid their dissection of a lily flower. In pairs, the children carefully pulled apart the individual parts of the flower and labelled them on sheets of paper. They then peer assessed and checked other pairs work.