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Desley Jones
Director/Kindergarten teacher
I think science is all around us, and it’s not necessarily about the content, it’s about the processes in science. It’s about encouraging them to be curious, and to notice things. Encouraging them to want to test things out and hypothesise what might happen, and watching the little boy get so excited about when you pour the water in here, it’s going to go under the ground, through the pipe and out the other side … was so thrilling for him
Desley
What was the experiment that you did?
Harry
We put water down through that white pipe, and it came all the way down there.
Desley
Did you see it down the end?
Harry
Yeah.
Desley
Could you show me that? I missed it.
Harry
And … right through here, and it came back out. Jacob and I can do that too.
Desley
If I bring a bucket of water, can we put it down that hole and see how it comes out?
Desley
Could you show me that? I missed it.
Harry
Yeah.
Desley
I’ll bring one over. I didn’t know that would happen. So, Harry, where do we have to tip the water in?
Harry
Through that.
Desley
Can you do that, do you think? Will we do it together? You take one side, I’ll take one side. Ready, down through that pipe, do we go too fast?
Harry
And I’ll go …
Desley
You check the other end. Let me know when it’s coming out
Harry
There’s water coming out, there’s water coming out
Desley
Is it coming out already?
Harry
Yeah.
Desley
Oh, there it goes.
Desley
Our episode with the drainpipe and the water, started from talking about a tree, as it does, or not. We had been planting trees, and one of the little boys said to me, the pipe’s out the other side. Then he showed me, he discovered that when you put water in one end of the pipe, right up by the shed. It would go through under the ground and come out. So then we wondered what would happen if you went further up the drain and whether that would still work. Like up the drain and around the corner, which is what we did, and we started putting buckets of water in.
But the first bucket didn’t make it, so we had to add extra buckets. It could be that there’s a lot of dirt in the drain. So it was that going back, that excitement of seeing how many will it take, when will that water be coming through the pipe at the other end. You could see that he was totally involved in that idea of seeing, when will I get the reaction to this action.
Desley
Well now I’m wondering when we started digging the hole, we were digging here. Was that a problem when the pipe was there?
Harry
No, no the pipe was here.
Desley
Oh, under that one. So what did you have to do?
Harry
You had to keep doing it over here.
Desley
Right, did you have to move where the tree was?
Harry
No, we just we did not dig right there.
Harry
No, we just we did not dig right there.
Desley
Right, so you dug in a different place to keep it safe?
Harry
Yes, here.
- Last updated:
- 24 July 2025
