The topic for this term is learning about your body and how to keep it healthy.
Category Archives: Our Learning
Science Week -Rockets
Written by Anna Grant
On the 21st of March we had a visitor called Mrs Birnie to tell us about rockets and she showed us how rockets work. She showed us her own rocket that she made earlier then we had to make our own rocket.We stuck a front cover onto a bottle then we had to use cardboard from the recycling and we had to make a tip for the rocket. I made six wings for my rocket. Then we went outside to test out the rocket. The shortest launched rocket was Sam and Kole’s rocket. The furthest one was John’s rocket. It was fun when it came to my rocket because I got to launch it. Sometimes other peoples rockets didn’t launch because the launcher was too wet. I used creative skills because we were decorating our rockets. We used listening skills because some people had to work in pairs and you had to listen to what other people said and we also used prediction skills.
Science Week
This week in school we have been doing some fun science experiments. Below are some recounts of them.
Boats
By Anna Grant P3
This week is Science week for Inveravon Primary School and we did a lot of experiments and I’m going to tell you one that we have done. My favourite one was the boat experiment. We had to use washing up liquid, a paper boat and a tub of water. We put the fairy liquid on the back of the boat. It zoomed forward. We had to keep on tipping out the water because sometimes it didn’t work. At the beginning I thought it would flip over when you put the washing up liquid on, but it didn’t flip over it zoomed forward.
Mrs Smith helped us do the experiment and I enjoyed it very much because the boat moved by itself and it was like a real boat.
Gloop
By Olivia Robinson P3
On Monday we made gloop. To make it we used water and cornflour. I made the gloop with Zander. It was really sticky and fun to make. When I pressed the gloop it went hard and whenI let it go it went wet and runny. When we left it overnight the gloop went hard. When we picked up the broken bits and crumbled them up they turned back into a powder. I learned that when you add water to cornflour it goes all sticky. I thought it would stay gloopy and it was really fun to make because we got to make a mess and I like to make a mess.
We did the experiment because it is Science Week! I learned that Science isn’t all about blowing things up.
The Magic Water
By Aaron Rogers P1
The experiment was to see how many spoonfuls of sugar would disapear in the water.
First we put cold water into a glass.
Then we added a spoonful of sugar then stirred it in until the sugar was gone.
We had to keep doing it until the sugar would not go .
Presentations of the Water Cycle
On Wednesday we were learning about what makes good teamwork skills. In pairs we had to identify these, then using them we created a poster explaining the water cycle. We presented our water cycle posters as a team to the rest of the class.
When we had finished we evaluated it.We gave comments of one wish andone star to give us the chance to make our presentation even better.
Micro – Tyco update
Last week everyone made vases from tin cans.They were decorated in tissue paper and we used Mog Podge glue as this was waterproof.We then had to leave them to dry they looked glossy when they were finished..We are going to sell them at the Inveravon coffee morning which is to be held on Thursday 28th Febraury from 10 am 11.30 am.
We took part in making a geography quiz. which will be sent around Aberlour for people to buy, we need to discuss how much to sell them for.
Written by
Sam P6 Fraser P4
Micro – Tyco
| The topic for this term will be Micro –Tyco. In short it is an enterprise challenge which takes place during the month of February. After much discussion and research the pupils held a vote on whether they would like to participate. The pupils voted overwhelmingly in favour. They thought it would be a good learning experience and the money raised would go towards helping others in the developing world. So far the pupils have registered and received their £1. With this seed £1 they have to think of and carry out a fundraising event. Hopefully a profit will be made and the £1 will grow. For further information the website to access is
http://www.wildheartsinaction.org/microtyco For this to be a success we desperately need your help. If you have any good fund raising ideas or could offer your services in any way we would be delighted to hear from you. We would like to raise as much money as possible!
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Time
Our P1 and P2’s have made a brilliant wall clock to help us with our learning.
Robert Burns
Today with Mrs McCann we were talking about Robert Burns.
We spoke about what happens at a Burns Supper , what you would eat and what would you wear?
We all went in to groups and made a mind map of what we knew about Robbert Burns and how do we celebrate him?
We all had a try of making our own Tartan also.
What we have learned about the United Kingdom
This term our project was to find out as much as we could about the United Kingdom, Capital cities, flags, rivers, mountains. These are just 2 examples.
