For science week this year, we researched a science experiment that we found interesting. All the 5th and 6th classes then came to see our experiments at our very own Science Fair in Room 17!
Category Archives: Discover Primary Science Award 2018
Visiting the Science Fair
The boys and girls in Room 17 were very busy preparing a science fair to help celebrate Science Week 2017.
Room 15 went to learn all about different scientific reactions.
Room 17 were showing some classes the experiments they had been working on.
It was a great day!
Minibeast hunt in Room 15 – Ourselves and Living Things
The pupils were busy finding minibeasts and marking them off their lists.
It was great fun.
Science fun in Room 12 – Ourselves and Living Things
Room 12 were learning the functions of a tree trunk by experimenting with celery.
2nd class at the maths fair – Maths Week 2017
Everybody was very busy using their maths eyes at the maths fair this year.
Room 14 – Minibeast hunt – Ourselves and Living Things
Room 14 conducted a minibeast hunt in the Millennium Playground this week. We looked at the different habitats in the school environment and using pooters and magnifying glasses, we were then able to examine and classify the various minibeasts that we found. We never knew that so many different creatures lived in our school environment! We found worms, woodlice, flies, spiders and millipedes to name a few! It was loads of fun. We then wrote up our results back in the classroom.
4th class – Mathemagician trip!
Fourth class had a fantastic day at the Helix, where they had their
minds blown by Andrew Jeffrey the mathemagician! He performed lots of
exciting maths magic tricks and showed us all some good tips on
remembering our tables. What a great way to celebrate maths week!
Maths Week 2017
We were celebrating Maths Week this week in school.
Mr. Mooney organised lots of great activities for the whole school.
There were estimation stations, daily maths questions for each class and a maths fair during the week. Lots of teachers did some maths trails and activities with their classes too.
At the maths fair there were activities in time, length, weight and shape.
It was great fun and thanks to Mr. Mooney and all of his helpers for a super maths week!!
Eggsperiment in Room 13 – Forces and Energy
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s a flying egg!
The budding engineers and aeronauts of Room 13 were challenged with the eggciting task of designing and creating a parachute which would allow Humpty Dumpty to float safely to the ground.
It was eggssential that they took great care when designing their parachute and were careful to take both gravity and air resistance into account when designing their parachute.
The task was very well eggsecuted with a respeggtable 2 out of 6 Humpty Dumpty survivors.
Well done on a cracking effort Room 13!
A scientist visits Room 16 – Space Week
Tom Mc Cormack (Ben’s dad) visited room 16 to talk to the children for space week. He explained about space to the children: the vast spaces between celestial bodies, the things that float around up there, the extremes of temperatures etc. He explained what’s needed to launch a satellite and he did some experiments on gravity and with liquid nitrogen. Thank you Tom!
