Broomhill School P7 Room 22

Well done to everyone for doing such a great job of this week’s homework task. Poppy and Leila put this display together to showcase all of the hard work.

Post by Mrs Shaw

This week we have been learning about fossils. There are 3 ways fossils can be formed. The first way is when insects fly into to tree sap, the tree sap then preserves the insect for thousands of years. The second way is when large animals in the artic get frozen and then the ice turned into stone and the third way is when animals die under water and the lays of earth big up. We made fossils by using clay and plaster of Paris, we had to leave them for 24 hours, then the next day we took them out of the plate and some of them worked (some of them broke).

We also have been learning about young children with genetic disorders. We have learned about lots of different disorders such as: Albinism, Cystic Fibrosis, Treacher Collins Syndrome, Down Syndrome, Sickle Cell Anaemia and lots more. We worked in groups to find more out, each pupil got assigned partners to find to what some of these things are.

In Maths we have been doing problem solving, we all found it very hard
(except from Malachy). We had to solve a murder mystery (it was Jerry Sohato). We worked in partners to solve it.

Blog post by Eva & Ruby!

In a Topic lesson we were asked to make Reebops. The point of the lesson was to learn that Mums and Dads can have a variety of offspring and a mum and a dad each give one allele (kind of gene) to form one trait of their baby.

First we had to decode the genotype (the letters which make up the genetic code) of the mum and the dad Reebop to discover their phenotype (what they look like). After we did this, we created baby Reebops by passing an allele from each parent to the baby template. Once the genotype of the baby was decided, we figured out our baby’s phenotype and then made a Reebop baby out of playdough (it sounds a lot more complicated than it was 🙂 ).

Post by Finlay and Mrs Shaw

This term, our topic is “Evolution and Inheritance”. Throughout this topic, we will be looking at human evolution and gene inheritance, among other things. So far, we’ve been looking at the inheritance side of things; activities include creating models of double helix DNA, creating flow charts of inherited traits between parents and their offspring and learning about cells. Our wall display is starting to take shape too, with our (in most cases) beautiful evolution and inheritance-based lettering and easy-to-understand definitions for complex scientific terms plastered all over the wall. This topic also opens up many opportunities for potential trips, which are, many people’s opinions, the best part of a topic! One of our upcoming highlights is when we will extract DNA from an onion.

This is the beginning for our wall display.

DNA made out of pipe cleaners and beads.

This is us making models of cells.

Here are some of the labelled cells.

The balloons represent the nuclei and the wool inside is to show the chromosomes.

We also made edible DNA. The strawberry pencils are the sugar phosphate backbone and the four bases (A-T and C-G) are made out of soft sweets.

by Espen and Sarah

Yesterday, we had a transition afternoon trip to Harlaw. We visited the Modern Languages department and we had 4 different teachers.

Their names are: Miss Maes, Miss Gray, Mrs Adams and Miss Desavoir. In Miss Desavoir’s class we played a famous couples matching games to get to know people from other schools, then we learnt how to order an ice cream in French with 3 different flavours: la pommé, la banane and la fromais (Apple, banana and strawberry).

The next class we went to was Miss Maes’ class and the first question she asked was “What do you say if you don’t understand what someone is saying when your abroad?” You use sign language! We learnt lots of different fruit and what sign to use for them, then we did a fruit rap.

The next class was with Miss Gray where we had to match food with their countries like: bread and butter pudding is from Britain, sauerkraut is from Germany and lots more! It was quite challenging but good fun.

The last teacher we went to was Mrs Adam’s where we learnt the benefits of learning a new language. Some benefits are it improves your job chances and mental health. Overall it was a great trip and I’m sure everyone enjoyed it a lot.

By Leila and Ruby

Yesterday, we got to experience a traditional Japanese tea ceremony hosted by 3 lovely ladies: Mrs Weiss, Joyce and Jill.
Heather, Isla, Zander, Morgan and Lewis were lucky enough to experience the ceremony and take part in the ancient Japanese tradition.
Mrs. Weiss and Jill first showed us basic etiquette during a tea ceremony and how to drink the tea. Joyce showed us how the tea was prepared and the process of serving the tea.
Our 5 participants indulged in Japanese candy to sooth the palate, leaving a sweet taste like sugar. They then, one by one, consumed the Matcha Green Tea out of the tea bowl (Chawan) and described what it tasted like.
Mrs. Weiss was taking questions from the class, such as:
Why are the ceremonies performed in this way?
Can you buy these things here in Aberdeen?
What are the names of all the different utensils?
Mrs. Weiss informed us that they perform the ceremony like that because it’s supposed to represent a special occasion, so must be performed in a special way.
She also said that it is possible to buy the Futon (mat), Chasen (whisk), Chashabu (tea scoop), Chawan (tea bowl) and Matcha powder in Aberdeen. All of the items can be found in any Asian market or in the Asian supermarket at the end of George Street.
Afterword, Mrs. Weiss came back to room 22 and showed us her Bokken (Wooden Sword) and explained what she did with it during her time in Japan. She took part in a course to learn the art of a peaceful Japanese martial art. She passed her Bokken around the class to allow us to properly inspect it.
The lesson interested the whole class and we all had a great time.
By Heather, Erin & Cara.

Last week we were learning about the Great Wave off Kanagawa. We were recreating the Great Wave print. We started by watching a video to learn how to draw the outline of the wave. After that we coloured in the wave with blue stripes. Then we painted the background with water colours. After that we dabbed white paint onto the top of the wave and Mount Fuji. Finally we painted the boats brown and added more detail. They all turned out great!

For our writing this week we came up with our own stories linked to the Great Wave off Kanagawa. We read a story based on the Great Wave for inspiration. First we did a warm up in pairs, some pairs stayed together for writing the actual story. The stories all were very different but they all had the wave in it at some point. The partners all typed up their stories and them out so they could make them into booklets that were displayed on the wall.

We also learned about the Fibonacci sequence which is a sequence of numbers. the numbers are 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21… The secret is you add the last two numbers of the sequence to get the next number. We found out the Fibonacci spiral was linked to the Great Wave. We drew pictures of the great Wave with the Fibonacci spiral in it.
After we finished we put them on our display outside of the classroom.

By Erin & Cara

In the past 3 weeks we have been doing the Enterprise Game. In the game, we have to make a clothing line and not go bankrupt!

We’ve made company names such as: Mr Polo, Devil Shirts UK, Pogba Dab Polos, PGBG YO Polos, FSRM ‘n’ Topz and Red A.M Polos U.K!

We are selling: polo shirts, shoes and other things. Each week we get a bit of paper saying how much we have earned and if we want to change anything like how many workers we want to employ.

For the next few weeks we will be carrying on the Enterprise Game.

Post by Alex Mc

On Tuesday the 22nd of November our class went on a trip to Yo!Sushi. We all got on a bus to the Bon Accord Centre, on the bus we did the mannequin challenge, so Mrs Shaw got some peace and quiet!!

When we arrived we sat down and tried some different Japanese food like pickled ginger and Japanese omelette which in our opinion is not the nicest thing we’ve ever tasted but some people enjoyed it.

The next thing we did was make cucumber maki which was delicious the things that went in it were sesame seeds, rice marinated in vinegar, seaweed and cucumber! After that we made inari pockets filled with rice!

We also did the edamame bean challenge, where we used chopsticks to move one bean from one bowl to another. Toby, Zander, Mark, Dillon and Malachy won pocky!

Post by Leila and Ruby