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Weekly Update

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This week we have been learning about fertilisers and their effects. We started an experiment by planting seeds. We used the same seeds, tubs, water, soil and the only thing we changed was adding fertiliser to one pot.

On Thursday, we checked on our plants but there’s no change as of yet. We tidied up the garden area where we will plant our seedlings later this year.

Congratulations to Heidi who won our Easter Egg Raffle. Happy Easter and a safe and enjoyable holiday to all our families.

Ecosystems Videos

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Here are some videos we made. Their purpose is to encourage people to explain the threats to wildlife and promote conservation strategies.

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Weekly Update

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It’s been quite a science week for us.

We have been learning about extinction and endangered animals. This week we started making food chains and then looked at how the ecosystems are related. Then we made a food web using string to show how everything interacts in an ecosystem.

Then on Friday, we took part in a science live lesson, investigating the effects of water pollution on marine life. We used an experiment to see the effects of increased pollution. Our predictions were accurate.

Weekly Update

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We started learning about area this week. By counting the squares or multiplying the length and breadth, we can find the area.

In science, we have been learning about the water cycle and how to filter water. We experimented with different materials to find which cleaned the water best.

  

Then we explored climate change and the effect that the rising temperatures have on our planet. We made chains to show the many effects that climate change is having.

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This week we were very lucky and took part in BEAR Cubs Engineer workshop. We joined with other schools on Teams and discussed different types of engineers. Then we completed a Spidergraph of our skills, rating them out of ten.

On Tuesday, we were learning about the different states of water. Outside, we organised ourselves into groups and showed how the particles move in solids, liquids and gases.

Today, we learned about the water cycle. Using words like evaporation, condensation, precipitation and accumulation, we created a ‘water cycle in a bag.’ They have been stuck to the window, ready to observe the water cycle. We also created a ‘cloud in a jar’ where we used shaving foam and coloured water to show how precipitation happens.

 

Science Morning

Thank you to Mrs Smith and Mrs Sewell for visiting us today and providing us with some amazing and exciting science activities.
We got to count how many drops of water we could fit on coins, make a clamp stand following the instructions and sort beads and pom poms by colour and shape.
We learned how to use different apparatus like magnifying glasses, the clamp stand, stopwatches, droppers, thermometers, measuring cylinders and tweezers.

We had a visit from Generation Science where we learned about electricity. We made a circuit, powered by a battery and saw how electrons travel round a circuit.

Then we made a magnetic field which pushed the electrons around the circuit.
Then it was our turn to test out different coils and magnets. We measured how much electricity we generated using an ammeter.

We used our knowledge to charge up our Hexbugs for the race of the century.

CSI

We had a very exciting visit from Ayrshire College who turned our classroom into the scene of a crime: The Case of the Missing Sweets. Mrs Mackay, Mrs Connell and Mrs Connelly were suspects!

We analysed saliva samples, a ransom note and checked the patterns of our fingerprints. We discovered that Mrs Mackay was the culprit but we did get a sweet treat for our hard work solving the crime.