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Clyde in the Classroom, P6

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18th February 2014

Lots to update you on! Our eggs have finally started to hatch and the official name we now give them is ALEVIN. The trout are now able to swim around the tank and they respond to loud noises. They have changed colour from orange to brown. To survive they will continue to feed from their yolk sac. Their faces are starting to appear and we have noticed their eyes too. They still huddle together quite a lot, and they are all very protective of each other. They make it very difficult for us when we try to remove a dead egg or alevin.

We love that they seem more confident as they swim around when we are visiting them. We have had to add small pieces of netting over the taps to prevent the trout from swimming into the cooling tank.

Tomorrow we hope to be given an idea of a date for release from Caroline. We will then plan to invite our parents and carers in to see the project first hand.

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Whale Week, P5a and P5b

Primary 5a and 5b’s novel study this term is Michael Morpurgo’s ‘This Morning I met a Whale’. As part of the topic both classes decided to host ‘Whale Week’ to raise funds for a visit to Deep Sea World. Through a variety of enterprise activities the classes managed to raise an astonishing £732.79.  Activities included a sponsored dance, selling sea snacks, an acrostic poem competition and lots more.

Thank you very much to pupils, parents and carers for your support. Sea World here we come!

Primary 5a

Primary 5b

Orca, Competition winner.

Dolphin, Raffle Winner

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Clyde In the Classroom 2

We have been looking after our 200 eggs very carefully. Since the 3rd February we’ve been checking on our eggs four times daily.

Each check involves – a temperature check, possibly changing ice water bottles, a check for any dead eggs, top up water in tanks and bucket and cleaning the tank. Groups of four children are visiting the Pea Pod to complete this task. They then come back to class, record the information on our checklist and report back to their classmates.So far we’ve identified only one dead egg but we know there will probably be more.

On Wednesday 5 February the eggs had started developing. We noticed that inside their yolk sac eyes were appearing. We had to ensure that the water was kept to the correct temperature during our February holiday and say a big thank you to Mr McDonnell, our janitor, for adding ice on the days we were off.

 We’ve returned this morning to a very exciting sight! Our trout eggs have hatched!!!! We were able to watch them swimming around their tank after assembly. They were very fast.Sadly, some more eggs have died over the weekend. We will now remove these eggs and monitor very carefully.

 Look out for our next update very soon.

 Primary 6

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Body Works on Tour

An engaging hands-on exhibit about the human body is set to keep youngsters and families entertained at Barrhead Health and Care Centre during the February mid-term break.

Body Works On Tour on Mon 10 Feb, will feature a variety of free interactive exhibits including an age machine which takes a picture and gives visitors a glimpse into their future; and a heart beating drum to enable people to measure their heart in a unique way.

Visitors will also be able to learn how their bodies work with real human tissue samples; try and inflate a smoker’s lungs; put a neck, head and brain back together and get to grips with synthetic limbs.

The event is being held in partnership with the Science Centre and East Renfrewshire CHCP smokefree community services to engage residents about their body and health. The smokefree team will also be on hand to offer advice on stopping smoking, tobacco and second hand smoke.

Cllr Alan Lafferty, East Renfrewshire convener for social work and health said: “This event is set to be a fun and informative day where you can find out more about the human body, health and ways to improve your lifestyle.”

The free event takes place at Barrhead Health and Care Centre, Main Street, Barrhead on Monday 10 February from 10am to 4pm.

The CHCP is a partnership between East Renfrewshire Council and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGG&C) and brings together local community and primary care health services from NHSGG&C and social work services from East Renfrewshire Council.

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Clyde in the Classroom

 

Primary 6 are very excited to be a part of the Clyde in the Classroom initiative. Shortly we are to receive a visit to talk to us about exactly what will be involved in this project. We know that we will be responsible for looking after and nurturing around 250 trout eggs. These will arrive in a hatchery, and one of the responsibilities we will have is to ensure it is kept at the correct temperature – we need bottles of ice to keep it nice and cool. We have been collecting these and hope we have enough.

The project will run for around two months, and the final stage will be when we release our hatched brown trout into the burn. We will probably be quite sad to see them go!

Please check back regularly as we will be creating our own blog to keep you updated on the progress of our eggs. We plan to upload lots of pictures of the various stages of development.

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St Luke’s Elite Engineering Programme

On behalf of the pupils at St. Luke’s, a bid has been submitted to the “Elite Engineering Programme” in the hope that St Luke’s HS will win LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 STEM with resources worth £3,000 plus the chance to compete for further resources at competition level.  You can find out more about it at this address http://www.eep-schools.org.uk/

The “Elite Engineering Programme” is piloting the use of the LEGO ‘machine and robot making’ equipment with 25 successful schools this year. St Luke’s HS hopes to be one of them. With the philosophy of Curriculum For Excellence courses well understood by the school, St Luke’s HS knows that these resources would be a major boost to the educational experiences they could offer their pupils.

As part of the 500 word application, St Luke’s HS has also submitted a video of  S3 pupils testing their weather shelters. This task was part of several tasks during the day where pupils had to work as a team to design and create a solution to a weather related problem.

St Luke’s High School  needs your help.  

One criteria that will be used to measure the best entries will be the extent of our learning community’s support for the application.  And that is where you come in ….

Please copy and paste the web address below, and scroll down to the St. Luke’s icon to see our video. I presented this video as “Learning and fun in perfect harmony!”

You are being asked to click the ‘thumbs up’ (like) icon to show your support for our submission.

Please send the web address to as many people as you think can support us.  The more ‘likes’ we get, the better chance we have of being successful.

 http://www.eep-schools.org.uk/entries/page/10/

 Thank you in anticipation of your assistance