Category Archives: Sciences

* Successful learner, Primary 2/3, Sciences

P2/3 Winter Topic

December 11, 2015 User deactivated 1 Comment

As part of our winter topic we have been learning about how to stay warm. We all carried out an experiment to see what materials are best at keeping in heat.

We covered 4 beakers with different jackets ( paper towel, t-shirt material, thick wooly sock, bag of cotton wool balls) and also had a beaker with no jacket. Mrs Inglis added hot water, we took the temperature waited 20 minutes and then took the temperature again. We discovered that all the water had got a bit cooler, but the water with the woolly sock jacket and the cotton wool jacket stayed the warmest.

This is just like our big wooly and puffy coats that we wear in cold weather to keep us warm.

Everybody enjoyed being scientists and filling in our science reports.

Primary 2, Sciences, Uncategorized

P2 SMELL EXPERIMENT

December 9, 2015 Mrs Macgregor 1 Comment

We had great fun carrying out a “smell” experiment today. We used a blindfold to test how good our sense of smell was on its own!

“I can smell tomato sauce because i know it from my McDonalds” – Sean.

“I thought the vanilla smelled like caramel” – Stephanie.

“I love the smell of coffee” – Ben.

Expressive Arts, Primary 2, Sciences, Uncategorized

P2 SENSE SENTATION!

December 9, 2015 Mrs Macgregor 1 Comment

Primary 2 have been creating some “Optical Illusions” for their ‘Senses’ topic. Can you spot the 3D hand in these pictures?

Languages and Literacy, Primary 2, Sciences

P2 and their ‘Sense’ of Adventure!

November 26, 2015 Mrs Macgregor Leave a comment

Primary 2 had a great time in the Sensory Garden, Community Garden and Playground this morning. They took notes on their clip boards of things they experienced through their five senses.

Why not think about what you can “sense” in your own home?

The children smelled the herbs in the sensory garden. The lavender was very strong!

Taking notes on the clip board to help with a writing lesson later.

Smelling the fragrant plant in the Community Garden

Using the picnic benches in the sheltered area to finish our notes.

* Successful learner, Expressive Arts, Primary 2, Sciences, Technology

P2 Explore Senses through Purposeful Play

November 18, 2015 Mrs Macgregor Leave a comment

The boys and girls in Primary 2 enjoyed taking part in Purposeful Play this afternoon to explore their topic of senses.

The children used a range of materials to create artwork of their own iris.

They used the I-pads and Smartboard to investigate the sense organs. Why not try out a website called, “Sid the Science Kid.”

They used play-dough at the malleable area to create models of their own sense organs!

Well done Primary 2!

Homework, Primary 4/5, Sciences

Skeleton fun at home

November 4, 2015 Mrs Fisher 2 Comments

This P4/5 pupil used his superb knowledge of the human body to create a skeleton at home using Lego! He thought about the different bones and which Lego pieces would best represent each. A wonderful piece of work, well done!

Primary 4/5, Sciences

Joints joints joints

November 4, 2015 Mrs Fisher Leave a comment

P4/5 were learning all about the joints in the body today. We watched a video on the types of joints in the body then had great fun drawing round people in the class and identifying all of the joints on the body!

Sciences

P4/5 funny bones

October 20, 2015 Mrs Fisher 4 Comments

We started our new topic, The Human Body, today. We introduced our topic through a scene from the film Harry Potter, in which Harry breaks his arm but has a spell cast upon him in which his bones disappear! We learned about the importance of the skeleton and can now identify some of the bones. Did you know we have 206 bones in our bodies?!

Community, Expressive Arts, Food and Health, Nursery, Outdoor Learning, Sciences, Whole School

Glenmanor Achieve Success at Chryston Horticultural Show!

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Glenmanor pupils did exceptionally well at Chryston Horticultural Society Annual Show today. Well done everyone! Read on to find out who won what!

Moodiesburn and Chryston District Pipe Band played outside Chryston High School Cultural Centre and Tom Clarke officially opened the show.

Inter Schools Challenge (age 10 and over) – We won the inter schools challenge with some very stiff competiton from Chryston High School! Their garden produce was outstanding! They grew these fantastic vegetables in their poly tunnel and we hope thar our garden academy can do the same this year!

Here are our inter school entries below. The red rosettes are first and the blue are second. 6 points for 1st and 3 points for 2nd. Our total score was 18! Here are two of our pupils collecting the trophy on behalf of Glenmanor.

Decorated Cupcakes (age 10 and over) – Abby was 1st, Susannah was 2nd and Sophie was 3rd.

Greetings Cards (age 10 and over) – Jenna was 1st, Monique was 2nd and Leah was 3rd.

Garden in Miniature (age 10 and over) – Our P7 groups won 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Creation or Craft (age 10 and over) – Abby was 1st and Beth was 2nd.

Krispie Cakes (age 9 and under) – P1a were 1st, P1b were 2nd and Campbell was 3rd.

Creation or Craft (age 9 and under) – Niamh was 1st and Macie was 2nd.

Greetings Cards (age 9 and under) – Oliver was 1st, Amy was 2nd and Kayley was 3rd.

Vase of Garden Flowers (age 9 and under) – Mrs Charles and her pupils won 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Community, Expressive Arts, Food and Health, Leadership, Nursery, Outdoor Learning, Sciences, Whole School

Our Entries for Chryston Horticultural Show

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Good luck to all pupils whose work has been entered in the garden show. Some of the entries are featured below.

Our garden club have entered the inter schools challenge where they had to create a garden produce display (3 shown), create a Mr Potato Head (2 shown), display 3 potatoes (not shown) and show their heaviest potato (not shown).