We have had a busy science week, which kicked off with a visit by Dr Dave Stodhart from the Fraunhofer Institute in Glasgow. Dave works as a scientist making lasers that can detect escaping gas, and talked to us about his work and being an inventor. He also showed us how to make our own spectroscopes to see the colours found in light. It was excellent. Primary 6&7 shared their learning on light with primary 3&4, who then went on to create shadow puppets with what they learned.

Primary 6&7 then did an afternoon of food science detecting fats, proteins, sugars and starch using chemical indicators, before primary 7 visited the High School to a transition day with other Islay and Jura Primary 7’s learning about air pressure. They launched rockets and got an egg into a conical flask only using air. Primary 5 were busy relocating their salmon offspring to a river near Inverary as part of their hatching salmon eggs topic, and made a game to teach the life cycle of the salmon. Primary 1&2 were very busy learning about forces to build their own Malteaser transferring vehicles, which were judged by primary 6. Lots of discovery and Invention took place in a very science fun filled week.