{"id":2617,"date":"2018-10-12T14:32:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2018-10-12T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:32:17","slug":"year-5-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/year-5-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 5 in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our topic on the Earth, Sun and Moon, Year 5 have been studying the relative sizes of these parts of our Solar System, along with the distance between each of them in space. The children thoroughly enjoyed creating a scale model of the Earth, Sun and Moon which they then used on the playground to discover how far away we are from the Sun. Using a scale of 1m:10000000km, we worked out that the Sun was 15m away from the Earth, but the Moon was only 3.6cm from our planet!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Best-Science-Experiments-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Best-Science-Experiments-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Best-Science-Experiments-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Best-Science-Experiments-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Best-Science-Experiments-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Best-Science-Experiments-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Amazing-Science-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Amazing-Science-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Amazing-Science-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Amazing-Science-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Amazing-Science-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Norfolk-House-School-Amazing-Science-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our topic on the Earth, Sun and Moon, Year 5 have been studying the relative sizes of these parts of our Solar System, along with the distance between each of them in space. The children thoroughly enjoyed creating a scale model of the Earth, Sun and Moon which they then used on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norfolkhouseschool.co.uk\/nhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}