Today Primary 3 enjoyed a visit to Emergency One. This was an opportunity for us to extend our STEM knowledge and learn about how vehicles are really made. We got to see the production line for ourselves, including the shell and the chassis of the fire engines. Elliot, our guide, showed us all around the factory and we were even able to sit in a fire engine. We are now going to take this learning forward as we continue to construct our own model vehicles.
As part of our STEM learning, Primary 3 enjoyed a visit from a local engineer called Mr Burns. Mr Burns came to class to help support the pupils to construct the chassis of their shoebox models. This involved lots of estimating, measuring, using tools and perseverance. Thank you to Mr Burns for coming to help us to learn.
Primary 1 have been working very hard at home creating these AMAZING Medieval castles as part of a homework challenge.
As part of our Earth and Beyond learning, Primary 3 completed a personal project at home. They had 2 options to choose from – construct the Saturn V model that was part of the Apollo 11 mission, or to research and create a poster about the Apollo 11 mission. They had 2 weeks to complete their project. Miss Edwards was delighted with their work and would like to thank all their families/adults who supported with this.
Primary 3 have thoroughly enjoyed our evening visit to the Dark Sky Park. This year was particularly special as we were also the first school to ever visit their brand new planetarium. During our visit we got to spend time looking through the telescope, participate in hands on activities in the science room but the highlight was most definitely the new planetarium. In this, we got to lie back and journey through space…. we saw what it looks like when a star dies, a range of star constellations, the milky way and the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. It was a fantastic visit, we learned lots and we enjoyed every moment of it.
Here are just a small range of our pictures…
