Month: March 2020

As most of you may know, the corona virus is a illness that has no cure and is rapidly turning from a epidemic to a pandemic. (This means that it is going from a few country’s to most country’s). It can feel like a cold to some but can be much worst to others.

Thankfully us in the UK and other places have not felt the full force of this illness yet with only about 51 cases of it.

So on Monday a teacher from north west community campest and a other teacher from Lincludin came to our school. We did a science project called island survival we were trying to filter the water to make It clean. there was 4 materials sand, rocks, the ends of tights and cotton wool. we all had to partner up and build a filter. The things we started with was a beaker and a funnel and compacted water.

by jack and kaitlyn

On Monday miss Dale told us that she had been working with some other teachers from different schools to prepare a science class that each one of them where going to teach there class so on Monday the other teachers came to watch us in our science class.The science class was called Desert island dilemma.It was about decontaminating water with only certain supplies such as rocks,sand,pop socks and some cotton wool.We had to conduct a FAIR test which quite a lot of us didn’t do well  we all made multi layer filters that made the water quite clean but it still wasn’t decontaminated. We had taken all of the big pieces of mud out but there was still little particles of germs in the water. whilst trying to decontaminate the water we also had to conserve the water in the bottles we were given we also done our experiments in beakers and made our filters in the funnels we were given.Me and Cleo got ours quite clean when our time was up.                                                                                                                                                                                                                By Josie

We have a after school club when we do gymnastics and I am doing front handspring over the horse at school and now I am training to do  a back  flip on the spring board and to land  a front flip on the mats. Miss Dale is quite scared but very impressed!!

Natural Disasters can destroy entire city’s such as earth quakes which sakes the ground so much that building come crashing down earthquakes are caused by the tectonic plates rub together. Earth quakes cause other Natural Disasters such as tsunamis which are caused by earth quakes under water which create huge tidal wave tsunamis are just as destructive. An other Natural Disaster is a sink hole a sink hole is a large depression in the ground caused by water, pressure and sinking sand.

On Monday the second of March Holywood seniors produced there own experiment! The students worked in partners of two, each pair had a bottle of dirty water that they had to attempt at purifying. The students had three different materials such as… One Pop Sock, Gravel, Cotton And lastly One handful of sand. Using the materials they had, they tested each one of there materials individually and fairly. in conclusion most students believed that cotton proved more useful in this situation, although a small group of students thought that the pop socks were even better. Near the end of the experiment the students tested some of the materials together, the cotton and pop socks seemed more useful than the rest!

Thank you for reading

By Daisy

The coronavirus is a new disease it is a bit like the flu but we do not have a cure for it but the best thing to do is to wash your hands. You should wash your hands for two minuets or sing happy birth day two times. It mostly effects adults and elders but kids can still get it. there are about 40 conformed cases in the uk there is one conformed case in Scotland. But keep on washing your hands.

Hello. I’m Cleo and I will be talking about the science experiment we done on Monday. We did have some visitors. A teacher from NWCC and a teacher from Lincluden. They came to watch us do the experiment. We had to pretend that we were stranded on an island with not much to work with. We had to try clean the dirty water and take out the dirty particles but still be left with enough water to drink. The supplies we had to work with were pop socks, stones, sand and cotton wool. It was quite hard to get rid of the particles but we did get rid of them even though the water was still quite dirty looking. We did work in partners so it was still hard but not to hard. My partner was Josie. The supply we found the best working was the pop sock. We put it in the funnel and it worked perfectly! The one we found the worst was the sand. The sand made it very dirty and left particles in it. Near the end we were aloud to combine the supplies together. Me and Josie layered the supplies to get much cleaner water. We put the pop sock at the bottom, the rock in the middle then cotton wool at the top. We Found it cleaner because it was a bit lighter and a bit more clear with no particles. That’s all for now! By Cleo

On Monday we had a science lesson. Miss Dale brought some teachers over. We got in to partners and named us crisp or crumb. I was crisp. We had to try clean  filthy water which only cotton wool, pop socks, gravel and sand. The teacher were from North west community center and Lincludin. The water had soil and particles in it not nice.  We had to one by one. The cotton wool worked for me and my partner Merissa also for the most of the class. A few people thought the pop socks were the best to work with. In the challenge we also had to try not to waste as much of the water Sarah and Kaitlyn lost quite a bit more than half of the bottle. Miss Dale put stickers on three people A B C. AT the end them people had to ask and  receive questions.

Hi its James here for my genius hour I am learning the chanter to learn the bagpipes at the moment I know the basic scale and my G grace notes . the G grace notes are the higher pitched volume to play a grace note you lift the top finger on and off sharply  you blow rely hard 2x as hard as you blow the tin whistle the chanter is fun .

 

 

 

by James