Science and Technology
Science and Technology
In Science and Technology, your child will learn about biology, chemistry, physics, computer science and design and technology. They'll learn about design and engineering, living things, matter, forces and energy and how computers work.
If you want to know what Science & Technology looks like in Pontarddulais Primary then you can search the Twitter / X hashtag #BontSciTech
Our Vision
Raising the Profile of Science in School
Academic Year 2022-2023
Blwyddyn Un developing cutting and threading skills
Dosbarth Derbyn investigating snowmen an which one will melt fastest
Can Blwyddyn Pump make a bridge with two sheets of A4 paper?
Our successful coders

Our coders came third for DVLA Code Challenge 2022 winning £1000 for digital gadgets
Blwyddyn Dau doing experiments with candles to help Santa after a power cut in the North Pole
Blwyddyn Dau learning of human's impact on the world's oceans
Meithrin doing festive ICT skills
Blwyddyn Pump learning on the affects of smoking
Dosbarth Derbyn opening Advent and completing the challenge
Blwyddyn Chwech learning about reversible and irreversible materials and changes
Blwyddyn Pedwar launching rockets for STEM
Blwyddyn Uns spaghettic Towers for STEM
Blwyddyn Un learning how to log into devices
Blwyddyn Dau working as a team with their models
Dosbarth Derbyn learning how temperature affects corn
An eggs-citing experiment for Blywddyn Dau a Tri
TechnoCamps experience for Blywddyn Chwech
Nursery Ten Cup challenge for STEM
Can Blwyddyn Pump solve how to clean an oil spill for STEM Day
Dosbarth Derbyn amazed to see how dough changes
Blwyddyn Chwech planning a fair test on why some items dissolve
Blwyddyn Un learning the life cycle of a pumpkin
Dosbarth Derbyn exploring and making autumn crowns
A day at the Taliesin ignited Blwyddyn Chwech's passion for science

Blwyddyn Chwech at the Taliesin
Meithrin making and testing bread
Meithrin had a surprise in a box to investigate
Blwyddyn Pedwar testing friction on different surfaces
Blwyddyn Chwech learning how temperature affects particles

Dosbarth Derbyn developing their Fine Motor Skills
'Can you train a computer?' ask Blwyddyn Pump
Blwyddyn Pedwar trying to resolve our car park chaos
Wonderful Hedgehog homes from Dosbarth Derbyn
Blwyddyn Un exploring with BeeBots
Dosbarth Derbyn finding and examining Autumn treasures
Blwyddyn Un Testing and making houses for the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
Blwyddyn Pump activating prior knowledge about internal organs
Blwyddyn Dau learning the Life Cycle of a Frog
Blwyddyn Dau/Tri Making Stop Motion Animation of Life Cycle of Frog
Blwyddyn Tri Learning the Life Cycle of a Frog and making Stop Motion Animations
Blwyddyn Dau Stop Motion Animation of Life Cycle of Frog

Blwyddyn Dau Life Cycle of a Frog Stop Motion Animation

Blwyddyn Dau Learning the Life Cycle of a Frog
Blwyddyn Dau sorting Living and Non Living Objects
Before 2022
Year 5 meeting with Mr Davies about sustainable energy in the school
Year 4 using Lego WeDo for a forces experiment
Year 1 taking a new friend home, grown in class
Reception/Year 1 going on a bug hunt
Year 6 learning about Cyber Crimes
Year 3 learning about a balanced diet and 5 a day
Year 5 designing and making wind turbines.
Year 1 testing their houses with Mr. Wilson as the Big Bad Wolf
Year 5 making wind turbines
Reception and Reception/Year 1 investigating, building and experimenting materials for houses against the Big Bad Wolf
Year 5 testing different materials to see how conductive they are
Year 6 creating databases based on the Space Race
Reception using J2E to make pictures of the Three Little Pigs
Year 5 building circuits together.
Year 2 using circuits to make a nightlight for Plop the Owl
Blwyddyn 3 - Let the floodgates open! Year 3 built their own floodgate using Lego and coded it to open and close. The challenge was for them to then alter the code for the gate to open for 5 seconds and then 9 seconds.
Blwyddyn 3 -Coded floodgate

Dosbarth Derbyn planting flowers and learning about how things grow.
Year 6 'bonded' with particles learning different states of matter
Using curioscope app to read pulses.
Year 5, what will cities look like in the future?
Year 6 reading pulses
Year 6 learning about the circulatory system
Reception learning about the life cycle of a hen
Reception and Year 1 using BeeBot on Tedi Twt's farm
Year 6 using online resources for research, is it reliable
Squashed tomatoes challenge winners! Their design was voted the most effective by their peers.

'Squashed tomatoes challenge' Blwyddyn 6. Testing, testing!

Which forces act upon a plane? Which design will be the most effective and stay in the air longest? Will there be an anomaly in our results...let's investigate Blwyddyn 6! #flight #welovescience
STEM day - Blwyddyn 6!
