Burravoe Primary School

On Wednesday the 26th, two people came from the Glasgow Science Centre, to our school. They came in a very colourful van. Later all of the pupils came from Fetlar School. First the P1, P2 and P3 went to get their science lesson. Afterwards It was our turn to go to our science lesson. We were learning about our digestion system, we spoke about how our food moulds up in a ball and goes down our oesaphagus next it goes into our stomach, after that it goes into our small intestine which is 6m long , but the small intestine is also very thin so, that’s why it’s called the small intestine, I learned that the intestines get rid of the water from the food . After it goes into the large intestine, which is only 1m and a 1/2, but its called the large intestine because it is really wide. One of the ladies also told us what she ate yesterday, and mixed all those foods in one bag, she pretended that the bag was her stomach. Later she sieved the liquid out of the bag full of food. she told us that the rest of the food would be poo.

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On the 26th April the Glasgow Science Centre came to Burravoe School. We did Disgusting Digestions. We saw a diagram for the parts of the body. We did a Cream Cracker challenge. We did about how the digestion system works. We looked at the stages of the digestion. First the food goes to the mouth and then it goes to your oesophagus after it goes to your stomach and the food goes  to your digestion system. The small intestines are 6 meters long and the Large intestines were 1 and a half metres long. Then we went to stations. Jemma showed the stations and explained about them. They were the Skin Magnifier and the Memory test and the X-ray light and a Multi-task activity and The Torso puzzle and the head and neck puzzle and the x-ray puzzle and the time machine. My favourite was the 10 Year time machine because it was interesting to see what I would look like if I smoke and drink in 10 years time.

Yesterday we had two People from the Glasgow Science Centre come to our School. Our workshop was called disgusting digestions. I learned  what saliva is and how long your your small and big intestines are. We learned what bits of the body you food goes down in to. First its start in your mouth. After that it goes to oephagus to your stomach. At the end there was an exhibition  my favoured game was the memory game because you had to look very carefully and think. I really enjoyed it and I thought it was very good.