Our very lucky Pr.5 pupils set off on an adventure today when they went to New Lanark College thanks to a wonderful invitation to see the fabulous facilities and to learn about further education and some of the skills required for the world of work. Mrs. McGlone reported that the workshops were amazing. The children were in mixed groups with half going to the Science department and the other half visiting the dentistry department. Then the fun began!! The children participated in observing experiments and then carried out a few of their own in small groups with the science students – ‘burning money’ and creating their own ‘fireworks’ by spraying different chemicals on a flame to change the colour. They even held the flame in their hand. Poor Mrs.McGlone’s heart was in her mouth! Many children wanted to be a scientist after all the excitement. After a short break the groups swapped over with the next group going to make impressions of teeth with the dentistry students and visiting dentists from China using many of the tools and state of the art technology provided in the college for students . At the end of the session the children received certificates from the Head of the Dentistry Department and also got to take home their moulds. Once again Mrs.McGlone noted quite a number of expressions of interest in this profession. A huge thanks is extended to the college for a fantastic visit. The school would like to particularly thank Mrs. Clare Flynn, Head of Faculty for facilitating such a great morning and to all the staff and students for making the morning such an interesting, entertaining, informative and enjoyable experience. Many thanks also to the parents who came along to help supervise. We can’t wait to go back!!
i really enjoyed this trip very much my favorite part was going to the sience department because there was lots of explosions like the bottle gun but it was cool watching everyone getting fire in there hand i dident do it because i dont like fire
We had a lovely day yesterday at the college . When we were at the college we went to the science we had lots burning money and making fireworks. Yesterday was lots of fun cant wait to go back .
We had a lot of fun in New Lanarkshire college. Our favourite part was in the science department and it was very fun. Are favourite part in the science was when we put water on our hands and put bubbles on our hands and we lite it and it went on fire. In the dentil department we got to make gumsheileds out of a pink mixture.We had lots of fun all day and we would like to go back another time.
We enjoyed the science department because we held fire and we made fire change colours with liquid coper iron and potaciam plus other cool sprays. we also burned dereck’s money it was so much fun!!! but the people at the other side of the tabel some how droped fire on the table but it went away . We also went to the dental department we made moulds to put in a dumys mouths we got to take them home . they felt very squishy.
We enjoyed the fire on our hands . It felt kind of tingly it was kind of warm .we enjoyed the dental part practising on the dummies testing the gum protector and then we got to take them home.
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I had a wonderful time and I would just like to say a big thank you
to Clair flynn organising this and a thank you to all the students
Wow! What a wonderful learning experience P5. Looks like a lot of fun.
I liked the part when we put our hands on fire