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A scientist comes to visit
Today Meilo’s sister in law, Venus, came in to talk to us about the work that she does and a little about where she lives. Venus is a scientist that works for a pharmaceutical company. She lives in New Jersey in America. Her daughter Vicky came in with her to draw pictures to help us understand the work that she does. It was very interesting and Vicky drew some really good diagrams of the body and the cells within it which helped us a lot.
Venus talked of how the body is made up of lots of different cells and these are like building blocks that make our body. The white blood cells fight bacteria but some bacteria can try to fight back. Our immune system is amazing though and it can specifically identify the bacteria so it know to kill the bacteria straight away. Bacteria can get into our bodies through any cuts as they go into our blood stream. So remember to clean and cover any cuts to help you stop bacteria getting in and harming your body.
Venus went on to talk about cancer and how cancer cells are much bigger. Did you know that these are actually our own body cells that are out of control, they keep dividing and growing and do not function properly.
There is many ways to try and get rid of cancer. One way is to remove it through cutting it out. They take a biopsy, taking both the normal cells and the cancer cells to look at them under a microscope to look at the differences and compare them. They also compare them to look at the similarities to bacteria. However cancer cells can change so that they don’t respond to the drugs that should have helped get rid of them. Scientists use antibodies to tell what type of cell it is. They then crush the cells to look at their blueprint which helps them pinpoint how they are made up and they can then try to determine how to fight them.
Scientists are now trying a new approach to help fight cancer. They are using our own immune system to teach it to kill the cancer its self. The immune system gets tired and can’t fight these so the cancer shuts down the ‘good cells’ and stop them working. Scientists look at cancer cells and the changed cancer cells and compare this to normal cells. Therefore they want to try to revive the immune cells so they work again. They can create shapes to attract the good cells and the cancer cells closer together.
It is really important to keep your immune system healthy! Here are some ways that we knew on how to do so:
- healthy diet
- drink lots of water
- get enough sleep (this is really important!)
- and finally…LISTEN to your doctor! If he gives you medicine to take then you should do what he says as it will help you!
House Points Challenge
Today Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson set us a challenge.
Each group had a pile of papers which had the bones that make up our body…we had to put these bones in the right place to make our skeleton.
Everyone worked really well and there was great discussion as to where we thought the bones would go. Once we thought we were finished we got the teachers to check it for us. We all did a great job with only a few mistakes with arm/leg bones. We then cut out the bones so that we could use split pins to put our skeletons together. Once he was complete we named it! (We tried to think of one linked to our group names)
Then Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson threw another challenge at us….This time we had to put the organs where we thought they went. This was a challenge, some groups only just started cutting out their organs but Sir Swagsolot Junior was the only one to have his organs placed in his chest/stomach. They got nearly every one in the correct place or very close if not. There are a few organs that we weren’t sure on so we are going to be learning about these in topic!
Photos to follow
Our Reward System
We get to have our say and decide on a reward system that we want so we all had a think and came up with lots of great ideas, once everyone had shared their idea then we took a blind vote. We narrowed this down to 2: House points and bucket fillers. We had a final vote and decided for term 1 and 2 we would go with ‘House Points’ as our reward system.
We had to get into groups for this – we decided that their would be 4 groups since there are 4 primary 7 pupils. So we got into a line according to age; the oldest being at the door and the youngest at the window – we even managed to figure this out without talking!Miss Nicholson then numbered us 1-4 and set us off into our groups so that we could think of a name! Here are our groups names:
- DJ LHT
- Sir Swagsolot and Co.
- Pink Fluffy Unicorns
- Squishy Hamsters
Now that we had our groups we had to decide why we would receive house points for, this s what we came up with:
- the teachers would set us challenges that we had to work through in our groups
- good manners
- being helpful
- working hard during our lessons
If we are awarded a house point we get to put a tally mark on our groups sheet.
Our Rights
Today we looked at all our rights and discussed these in groups. We thought about the 3 that we thought were really important and would like to focus on for the year ahead.
After a great deal of discussion the groups gathered together again to share their choices. Most of the groups chose similar articles which left us with 9 articles to narrow down to 3. We decided to take a blind vote.
From the vote we decided to focus on article 6, 24 and 31 this year.
Good Luck Kelly
Everyone at the Cullivoe Primary School would like to wish Kelly, our clerical assistant, good luck as today is her last day of work before going on maternity leave. We have made her a card and presented her with flowers and the staff gave her a card along with a few goodies. We will miss her but we are very happy to have Norma Graham in to cover Kelly’s maternity cover. We can’t wait to meet baby Keith!
Cullivoe Primary School Pupils 2017-2018
Primary 1
Primary 2
Primary 3
Primary 4
Primary 5
Primary 6
Primary 7
Welcome Back!
A huge welcome back to everyone today. It has been lovely to hear everyone’s news from the summer and to see how much they have all grown! Dean is very nearly the same height as Miss Jamieson!!
We have had a very busy day creating our class charter. First we went over our rights and why we have them before splitting into groups and reading through the 42 articles and highlighting all the ones we think were appropriate for school. We then fed back to the class before returning into our groups to select what we thought were the 4 most important articles for our class charter. We had 24 to choose from so we held a vote to narrow this down. There was some great discussion and some arguments for and against why we should or shouldn’t have them. We ended up with 5 articles for our class charter as we thought they were all important.
Our next step was to design our class charter! We all had the chance to design our own class charter before taking a vote on which one we thought would like to make. Everyone thought really hard about how they could add the article, right and responsibility into their design. I think you will agree there were some fantastic designs to choose from.
We all had 3 pom poms which we then placed on our ‘top’ 3 choices. Everyone got to vote, even the staff! The winning design was Jasmine’s island.
After dinner primary 7 decided on what needed to be done and split us all into groups so that we all had a job to do. We had one group measuring the wall to see how big the charter had to be, decide on what the responsibilities were, people making the sand, the tree trunks, the palm trees, the sun, the buckets, the heading, etc. It was a very busy and productive afternoon! We all worked really well and helped each other. We are very close to finishing so hopefully by tomorrow we can share a photo of the finished display!
Welcome Primary 1
We would like to say a big welcome to our new primary one’s. Cassie, Kristoffer, Thorfinn and Willa all started their first day of school today! They worked really well with Mrs Lawson on different activities before their mums and dads came to pick them up before break time.
Holidays Ahoy!
Holidays Ahoy, we all jump for joy!!
It’s the last day of term! Where has this year gone?!
The children are all full of excitement and are jumping around the school, singing ‘Holidays ahoy, we all jump for joy’ with banners and whiteboards.
We wish primary 7 good luck in Mid Yell as they move onto secondary and look forward to welcoming our new primary 1s after the summer.
We hope everyone has a fantastic summer!
