Year 6 Science Dissection

On Monday 17th October 2022, Mount St. Mary’s Science Department visited Year 6 and completed a heart dissection with them to consolidate their learning about the Circulatory System. Year 6 were able to name all the different parts of the heart and explain their functions. Furthermore, they learnt that the left side of the heart is thicker than the right due to the fact that it has to pump blood around the whole body, unlike the right side which just has to pump blood to the lungs. All the children were incredibly sensible throughout the lesson and, I think, we may have some future surgeons! Mr Deacon, Science Leader from Mount St Mary's High School stated: "I just wanted to say what a privilege it was to come in and work with your Year 6 today. They were impeccably well behaved and had a fantastic knowledge of the heart - enough to tackle some GCSE level questions!” I am so proud of the retention of knowledge from this topic for our Year 6 pupils. Keep up the great Science learning Year 6.