Month: March 2014

P6/7 have been learning about rounding decimals, converting decimals, dividing decimals and multiplying decimals.

Rounding decimals is the same as rounding tens or hundreds etc. If you were rounding  tenths,  you would look at the hundredths and if the hundredth is five or over, the tenth would be one unit higher, like; 1.48=1.5 You take away the zero because it has no use to you at all any more.

Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 with decimals is the same as multiplying any digits.  All you do is move the digits to the left. If you were multiplying by 10, you move the digits 1 place to the left, with 100 you move the digits 2 places to the left and with 1000 you move the digits 3 places to the left. It is the same with diving but with dividing, you move the digits the right.

Converting decimals is easy as well.  Zero point four equals four tenths. The four is in the tenth column so in the denominator of the fraction is a tenth and in the numerator of the fraction is four because that is how many tenths there are. The same would happen if there is a digit in the hundredth column, but instead of the tenth it would be a hundredth and the digit on top would be the number in the hundredths column.

By Anwen and Elizabeth

When we started doing our Endeavour, I decided that I would do mine on quilt making.  The first time, I set myself up and wrote a letter to one of the Islay Quilters.  A few weeks after I got a reply from someone called Rae Woodrow, she was one of the Islay Quilters that said she would help me with my project.  I phoned her to say when it would be available for her to come over and she said on a Tuesday at 2, oclock, I was excited!  On the first visit I showed my design and picked the materials to suit my quilt.  I have learned a lot throughout the weeks and I have now got the basics of making a quilt.  I was so interested in making one that I have got four squares finished and two ready to attach them all together.  From now on I  hope to get my quilt finished and I will be entering the Grand Exhibition, it’s for people who have made a quilt or something to do with quilting.

By Danni Barker

Today at the school P6/7 and P4/5 were visited by two Ladies who were from Edinburgh International Science Festival.  The two ladies called Amanda and Charlene came to talk to us about electricity and how it flows. We did many exciting activities, one of the experiments was we had to generate electricity, measured by an ammeter, though our own body energy. Then we charged Hex-bugs by using the energy from our arms and body, we had a race with the charged Hex-bugs. My Hex-bug came second and  his name was Steve the turquoise Hex-bug.

By Eleanor and Beth 😉

On the 19th of March Primary 7 went to Islay high as part of our electricity topic. We took part in lots of different experiments throughout the day. At the start of the day when we arrived we were split into three groups with schools from all over Islay and Jura. There were three different laboratories we were working in, each room had a different focus; one was circuits, one was how electricity travels and the last one was sensors. In the first room there were lots of different ways to wire a circuit and we were looking at many ways to do so we tested series and parallel circuits and even ones that are in computers. In room two we were focusing on how electricity travels. Some of the experiments were making a clock work using a orange and my favorite of the day was lighting fire with our fingers to do this we got a metal dome and charged it up by rubbing a comb on wool while this was happening someone would have their left hand on the dome then we would let gas out of a pipe and the person that was charged would touch the pipe and a fire would start. The last room was exploring different sensors and what they would be used for.  It was great fun.

by Robbie

In class we have been learning how batteries work. Here is a description of how a battery works.

Electrons have a negative charge so they are attracted to the positive end of the battery but there is a electrolyte in their way. The electrons want to go to the Cathode because they are attracted to the positive charge. The only way to get the electrons to the Cathode is when you connect the circuit with a wire and when the electrons pass through the wire they light up the lamp. When the battery runs out of chemicals that create a difference in the electrical charge that means the battery is dead and cannot be used.

by Abbie

On the 19th of Februrary p6/7 went a walk round the village to take pictures of old and inspiring buildings.  I took several pictures of building, landscapes with old houses with natural features to them.  We all got to enter one picture into the competition, my picture was of an old shed with lots of different lines and angles.  The reason I took that picture was because it looks old and interesting to whoever looks at it.  I took the picture at a side view so that it gives the viewer more of a real life look at it through a picture.  I was really pleased to hear I was a runner up in the My Place Photography competition run by the Scottish Civic Trust.

On Friday 21st March we did some fund raising for Sports Relief. We all dressed up in red and the teachers did a bake off to raise some money for Sports Relief. When we tasted some of the cakes they all tasted different and delicious  our two favourite cakes were the rainbow cake and the dragon cake. We had some leftover cakes so we went a walk around the village selling them to raise some more money. For the cake competition in first place was Mrs Clark with her dragon cake and in second place was Mrs Logan with the rainbow cake. We all had a really fun day and we raised £311  for Sports Relief.

By Emily and Eleanor