PUPILS at Neroche Primary School got right to the heart of learning about biology last week.

Year 6 pupils at the Broadway school spent the morning studying and dissecting ox hearts and using their knowledge gained throughout the term to investigate where the key components were.

Once they had discovered the likes of the aorta and the atriums, the children labelled them with little flags.

Having recorded their work, the students became the teachers as children from Years 4 and 5 joined the Year 6s who taught their peers all about what they had learned.

Lead science teacher Matt Edwards then dissected a full set of heart and lungs to highlight the relationships between the key organs.

Mr Edwards said: “Here at Neroche we do not place a glass ceiling on the possibilities for learning for our children, particularly in science.

“We are one of very few primary schools that begins biology work at this level to primary-aged children.

“Watching our Year 6 children, in a space of a morning moving from pupils investigating and learning, to then teaching their friends in younger year groups is so powerful to watch. I cannot wait to introduce even more exciting science later this term.”

Last year Neroche Primary School’s excellence in teaching science was recognised nationally with the school being awarded a Silver National Primary Science Quality Mark.