We have been making FOOTBALL ROBOTS for our science topic. We have made eight football robots and there all working. We decorated them and made them useful for real life. The wiring was very tricky and complicated to do. The football robots have a hand held controller to work them. The football robots have two motors facing down the way so if you pressed the left button the motor connected to the button would go left and that is the same for the other side. We took them to the High School and children from other schools got to play competitions with them. It was exciting!
Beach Grove Garden
For my Endeavour project I chose veggie gardening. So part of my project was to email someone to help with top tips so I decided to email Beach Grove Garden not expecting to get a reply. Imagine my surprise when I went on my emails to check for a reply and found a massive email with lots of hints and tips and recommendations for books. So I emailed back saying thank you and added a few pictures of me on my veggie garden and lots of other things. I waited for another reply and I got one asking to be on there next episode so I have been emailing Beach Grove with updates on my garden every time I do something on it.
Trip To Islay High For National Science Week
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
How A Battery Works
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
Photo Competition
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.
Sports Relief
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
Taking Emily Horse Riding For Endeavour
My Endeavour this year is horse riding instructors and for this I took a pupil horse riding. We went to a horse riding school and I was teaching Emily how to tack up a horse. She was riding a horse called Fiona. Emily said ” I was quite scared at first when I got on the horse but after a while I got used to it and was not scared.” I really enjoyed taking Emily horse riding and now I know what it feels like to take somebody horse riding and take responsibility. I now hope Emily knows more about horse riding and not as scared anymore.
By Jodie Jamieson
Port Charlotte P6/7 Come To Port Ellen P6/7
On Wednesday 19th March Port Charlotte P6/7 came to Port Ellen Primary school to do some science with p6/7. We did lots of fun things like building football robots, lego wedo, lemon batteries, lemonade batteries, potato clocks, soldering, scratch, and making video games and making circuits. To make a lemon battery get a lemon chop it in half get a zinc nail and a copper coin and get two crocodile clips put the zinc nail in the lemon and get the copper coin and put it in the lemon then get an L.E.D light get one crocodile clip then attach it to the zinc nail and the other end on the L.E.D light then get the copper coin and get the crocodile clip and attach it to the copper coin and the other one on the L.E.D light and it should work if it doesn’t work that doesn’t matter sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I enjoyed most when Port Charlotte came over was meeting new people and making new friends <3
By Ciara
Euro quiz
Annie, Anwen, David, Torin and Oliver took part in the euro quiz. The euro quiz is all about Europe and people from all of argyll entered it. They spent all morning doing the quiz. They had been practicing all month and had found a lot of facts. A week later they found out there results. Port Ellen had came second in all the schools that had entered. They were very happy when they found out.
By Annie Farrell
