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P4/5 Science Centre Trip

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What a great time everyone had at the Science Centre today.


🌟Primary 4/5  once again demonstrated our school values throughout the day and made all the staff and parents very proud of them!  🌟

Planetarium

We learned all about the planets and stars during our visit to the planetarium. We explored the different constellations and learned how to find the North Star in the sky. We also travelled in to space to look at the planets in our universe.

Exploring Floor 1 

We then had time to investigate, explore, learn and play together on the different levels of the science centre.

Floor 2 and 3

After lunch we visited the Bodywork’s and Powering the Future Floors.
We all agreed that the highlights of our day were ; Planetarium, Dance Mat – generate the energy and spending the day together exploring and having fun.

A huge thank you to Regan and Riley’s Mum,Kerry for coming to help us  to make our day run smoothly and helping us to have so much fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P4/5 Science Week

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Capillary Action
P4/5 have been learning about Capillary Action.

Today we explored this movement using paper towels to “walk water” between cups.

Paper towels are made of many small fibres that have gaps in between them. Water gets pulled into these gaps by capillary action—the same phenomenon that allows trees to suck water out of the ground.

Chromatography  Experiment

We then used  this knowledge of capillary action to separate colours from black ink. The ink started to flow up the paper towel using capillary action and the pigments of the ink then started to separate. We explored different types of black ink pens and then different coloured pens.

 

 

 

P4/5 Mould Juice Lessons with GSK

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Mould Juice

Did you know that penicillin was first called Mould Juice?  

Did you know that Alexander Fleming was one of two Nobel Prize winners educated at  Kilmarnock Academy?

Today we were lucky enough to have a science lesson deliverd by Glaxo Smith Kline. 
We learned  that  Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin after the First World War.
We carried out an experiment in class : 
  • Half of the class  sanitised their hands and half of the class left their hands unsantised.
  • We then all touched a piece of bread each.
  • Next we sprayed the bread with water.
  • Then we put the bread in a sealed bag and placed in a dark place in the classroom. 
  • We will observe the growth over the next 2 weeks.