Monthly Archives: December 2019

Holiday time is here!

Another great and busy week in 5.16.

Pupils performed beautifully at the Christmas service singing Holidays all Around the World. In addition to our class song the choir were wonderful too!

All week we have been learning from each other during presentations about pupil’s inspirational people from Marie Curie to  Greta Thunberg and many, many more! Well done to everyone who presented, clearly a lot of hard work went in to this both in school and at home!

On Thursday we also had our Christmas party, where some were determined to win prizes with a lot of success!

 

Finally we ended today with sharing who our ‘secret Santa’ from the 1st of December was. All pupils have being trying to do nice deeds for that person throughout the month in Secret. Pupils made cards for each other, helped in the classroom, gave compliments and the occasional treat throughout the whole month!

A big thank you again to my secret Santa who managed to deliver many a kind gesture to my desk without being detected!

 

Merry Christmas everyone!

Sounds and Waves

This week we used wire coat hangers and string for our sound investigation.  We worked in pairs to bang the hanger off the table.  We each held the end of a piece of string that was attached to the hanger and we could hear the sound quite quietly.  When we wrapped the string around our fingers and then placed our fingers in our ears the sound was much louder.

Following this, we took turns individually, held onto both pieces of string and placed our fingers in our ears.  The sound was even louder it sounded like ‘booongg’.

We watched a video on how vibrations make sounds for example when we sing our vocal cords vibrate and create a sound.