Monthly Archives: January 2017

Are you a supertaster?

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Have you ever heard of supertasters? This week, pupils in primary 4,5,6 & 7 were investigating.

Supertasters experience bitter tastes more strongly than other people because they have a higher number of taste receptors within their fungiform papillae – the big pink bumps on your tongue which contain your taste buds.

By counting the number of fungiform papillae on a tongue, you can determine whether someone is a supertaster, a taster or a non-taster.

We did an experiment to find out.

Our results:

We discover that 20% of pupils were ‘non-tasters’, 54% were ‘tasters’ and 26% were ‘supertasters’.

We can’t wait to try the next experiment with…

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Making Dumplings!!!!

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img_2234 img_2240 img_2249 img_2257 img_2258 img_2263 img_2272 img_2279 img_2280 img_2284 This week p4,5,6,and 7 made dumplings with Wen Ting. We all really enjoyed it. How we did it  was we got different kinds of dumplings in packages with all different kinds of flavours like egg and chives and last but not least  we boiled them. It was really quick and easy to do . We really enjoyed making them (and eating them).

新年快乐

(Happy New Year)

by Yelena and Amelie

 

 

 

 

Primary 1&2 made a calendar

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We are thinking about time this term and decided to make a calendar.

Primary 2 made the grid part of the calendar and had to think about the year, month names, days of the week and the number of days in each month.  They worked really hard together to complete all 12 months for our calendar.

Primary 1 thought about months, seasons, weather and special events then designed a picture for each month.

We now have a calendar in the P1/2 and P2/3 classroom to look at and use.

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Super Health

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This week we enjoyed learning about Edward Jenner, he helped stop the terrible disease of  small pox spreading. To make folk immune to smallpox you were given cowpox. The story of the small pox is that one day Edward was given a small dose of small pox at the age of 8. They were given it by blowing smallpox scabs up their nose but one little boy died next to him that was given the same thing. A milk lady came t0 Edward when was a lot older and he was a doctor she said “Since I have cowpox I can’t get smallpox” and this helped him to work out his theory.

by Yelena and Sadie