Making a map
We worked together to build a beehive
We built a huge hive in 3D from blocks
Meet our new team in the kitchen
Science week day 5
The last day of science week 😞
Today was all about the chemistry of carbon dioxide – we thought about how to create a reaction using just fizzy drinks and mento sweets. The children were challenged to think about what they wanted to test (flavour of drink, diet versus normal or number of mentos) and to come up with an experiment that was a fair test to test their predictions. We thought about what happened, and why it happened.
A huge, huge thank you to the p7/6 pupils who have grown so much over the week, running sessions, developing their questioning skills and beginning their journey as STEM leaders (more to come on this so stay tuned!).
We hope everyone has had a brilliant scientific week.
Road Safety
This week P5/4 managed their weekly road safety walk, between showers! The leaders Emma and Grace completed a risk assessment and led the class around the village, safely crossing the main road. Leadership skills, life skills, responsibility and personal safety. A wee blast of fresh air and exercise too.
First the fabric then the beads
Parking cars
We parked the cars in a line.
SHANARRI Superheroes
8 children from across the school spent the day working with Mr Elkerton to bring their SHANARRI superheroes to life.
The children from the ELC are going to get to know the superheroes after the holidays when they investigate lots of different ways to keep themselves safe and well. Stay tuned for updates as they happen.
P5 STEM day at SAMS
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.
