Hello!

It has been such an exciting week for Primary 5 as we have been lucky enough to visit both Whitelee Windfarm and Mearns library! 🙂 Whitelee Windfarm was absolutely amazing! We were split into two groups and each group had the chance to take part in a workshop where we got to experiment with our own mini wind turbines to see what type produced the most energy. We used something called an energy meter to measure the voltage produced by the different types of turbine. It was so fun and really interesting!

We then got a bus around Whitelee Windfarm and learned loads of interesting facts about the wind turbines.

Did you know…

• Whitelee is the biggest wind farm in the UK (there are 215 wind turbines in total!)
• Each turbine blade weighs 12 tonnes!
• One turbine alone can power 5000 homes!
• Whitelee produces enough energy to power half the homes in Glasgow (that’s 300,000 homes!)
• The turbines can reach a top speed of 180 miles per hour on really windy days!

We also learned about the wildlife at Whitelee 🙂

During the rest of the school week…

In ICT, we finished our PowerPoint presentations on Renewable energy. We started presenting these to the rest of the class and will continue presenting these next week!

In PE we started creative dance which was really fun. We looked at different stretches and balances and how different sequences of movements can be put together.

Here’s to another great week 🙂