Science – KPS: Class of 2019 (P7a)

April 26, 2019April 26, 2019

We Can Beat The Street!

We can Beat the Street! Today we celebrated our achievements in gaining first place in both categories in Beat the Street. We are so proud of ourselves and our school community for achieving this award. What a feeling it was watching back all the photographs. We were also rewarded with an extra 15 minutes playtime in the afteroon. Kirkhill can Beat the Street!

This has been a busy week! Yesterday we also found out our show parts. We were very excited and felt like we had been waiting for a while. There was a lot of tension between each part being revealed, but there was a lovely round of applause after every part was announced. We are all looking forward to starting our rehearsals once we return from Lochgoilhead next week.

Today Primary 7 also collaborated across the stage, to prepare for Lochgoilhead by researching the Leave No Trace principles. This work will help us achieve our Sir John Muir award.

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019

Science Week Finale

To finish off Science week, we had a Science Fair. Primary 6 were invited to our classrooms and they had the opportunity to interact with scientists from P7. Please have a look at our Twitter posts.

One of the experiments involved going outdoors, where we put Mentos into a bottle of fizzy juice to see it’s reaction. We loved seeing the way the juice squirted out the bottle and shot straight up towards the sky.

March 13, 2019March 14, 2019

Primary 7a and Primary 1a Science Investigation

Today P7a and P1a worked together on a science investigation. We looked at the different types of beaks that birds have and investigated the speed at which they would use them.

We got a variety of seeds, beads and leaves to pick up with different utensils and we used a stopwatch to time it.

‘It was so much fun working with the P1s.’ Rebecca.

March 11, 2019March 12, 2019

British Science Week-Willow Challenge

To kick start British Science Week, P7 were given a STEM challenge to use the willow branches from the Eco garden and create structures of their own.

‘We created a teepee.’ Euan

‘We made the Lochness Monster.’ Marie-Liang

March 4, 2019March 11, 2019

Yeast Balloon Experiment

Today we did an experiment, where we put different levels of yeast and sugar in bottles to see what combinations would release the most carbon dioxide and make the balloons the biggest.

We found adding more sugar didn’t make a difference but adding more yeast made a big difference. One of the balloons popped and the wet yeast sugar went all over the window and window sill.

The balloons are still getting bigger and everyone in the class is excited to see how big the balloons grow over the weekend.

February 5, 2019March 13, 2019

Mr Blackwood’s Visit

This week on Wednesday Mr Blackwood came to teach the the whole of P7 about WWII. It was really interesting listening to his stories.

Mr Blackwood also had some helmets, stamps and old money from WWII to show us. Mr Blackwood knew so much about world WWII from all over the war, we all learnt so many new things. Thank you!

December 4, 2018March 11, 2019

Different Energies

I learnt that there is a lot of different types of energies and they can also change a lot. Some of the energies are potential, kinetic, heat, electrical, chemical, light and sound also known as Poor Kevin Has Eaten Chewy Little Slugs thats how I remember it . There the energies that I learnt and remembered.