--- title: "Year 6: A heart dissection in action!" url: "https://fairfieldprimary.co.uk/news/2019-11-10-year-6-a-heart-dissection-in-action" school: "Fairfield Primary School" --- # Year 6: A heart dissection in action! ![Image of Year 6: A heart dissection in action!](https://files.schudio.com/fairfield-primary-school/images/news/IMG-20191107-WA0001.jpg) 10 November 2019 ### **A heart dissection in action!** Year 6 were fascinated when dissecting a pig’s heart. Children had the opportunity to explore the different chambers of the heart as well as identify the different parts of the heart they had previously learnt. Many brave children also held the dissected heart and its accompanying parts. This activity forms part of Year 6's 'A journey through the body' topic, in Science. ### Year 6 Heart Dissection [![](https://files.schudio.com/fairfield-primary-school/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/year-6-heart-dissection/IMG-20191107-WA0001.jpg)](https://files.schudio.com/fairfield-primary-school/images/gallery/year-6-heart-dissection/IMG-20191107-WA0001.jpg) [![](https://files.schudio.com/fairfield-primary-school/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/year-6-heart-dissection/IMG-20191107-WA0004.jpg)](https://files.schudio.com/fairfield-primary-school/images/gallery/year-6-heart-dissection/IMG-20191107-WA0004.jpg) [![](https://files.schudio.com/fairfield-primary-school/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/year-6-heart-dissection/IMG-20191107-WA0005.jpg)](https://files.schudio.com/fairfield-primary-school/images/gallery/year-6-heart-dissection/IMG-20191107-WA0005.jpg) 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