Taynuilt Primary School and ELC
The life and learning of a village school in the west of Scotland
P7/6 are currently looking at engineering, energy and electricity for their topic this term. Today they had a fantastic visit from STEM ambassador Fiona and Steven from the Northern lighthouse board. They learned how technologies in lighthouses have changed over time and how they work, as well as looking at lights and solar panels that Fiona and Steven brought in (and getting dressed in helicopter gear!).
Primary 1/2 had great fun out in the snow, making snowmen, throwing snowballs and sliding down the hill. When they came back in they wrote all about the fun things they did.
P5 enjoyed a brilliant day out at SAMS thanks to Iain Fulton and the STEM team from Argyll & Bute and to Helen McNeil from SAMS for facilitating the event in a real scientific setting.
Activities included designing a ‘grab machine’ to find treasure buried under the sea and in the sea bed (super large containers); creating a short action scene in front of a green screen to make a video ‘swimming under the sea’; building Lego with moving parts and programming the devices to move to your commands; enjoying a video and discussion with a real scientist who had visited the Arctic and trying on her stuff; finally we made boats out of various random materials and the boat that held the most pennies won a visit from Mr Fulton, it was quite a tense count as you will see from the photos but Taynuilt won and we are negotiating a date for his visit to develop our STEM learning.
It was also nice to be assisted by some pupils from Oban High School including two of our former pupils Mitchell and Hayden.
Mrs Currie has been showing P4/3 how to access the quizzes on Accelerated Reader. To begin with we are using our Treetops treading books and are working as a group to answer the questions. In a few weeks time we will go onto doing this individually with the books we choose from the school library.
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