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Our busy term
Term 1 has been a very busy term for us here in Cullivoe. We have learnt a lot and achieved a lot too. Here is what we have to say about our learning and our term!
Numeracy
Primary 2 – we have been learning our 2x table and what greater than and less than means and looks like. It was easy!
Primary 3 – We have been learning our 3x table and have worked hard in numeracy. We liked learning about place value.
Primary 4 – we have been learning the 8x table!
Primary 5 -we have been learning the 8 and 9x table. We have been playing beat my score which is really fun!
Literacy
We have all been learning about newspaper reports and the features of these. We have enjoyed learning about this and writing our own articles! We know that a newspaper needs a name, headlines, it has to be interesting, it is written in paragraphs, they have adverts in them, they are written in the 3rd person. We could give you more but that’s enough for now.
P5-7 have also been learning about superlative and comparative adjectives and looking at dictionary skills as well as recapping punctuation and developing comprehension and reading with expression.
Health and Wellbeing
We have been learning about the body and the organs. Here are a few that we have looked at: lungs, small and large intestine, pancreas, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach, bladder, gall bladder, oesophagus, rectum and the brain.
We have done an experiment which looked at the digestive system. It was really fun but also disgusting!
We had a couple of visitors in to talk to us about our topic. The health improvement practitioner talked to us about how to keep our body healthy. We had a scientist come in to talk to us about her work and different diseases/how to keep ourselves healthy.
The younger ones have been looking at throwing and catching in PE whilst the older ones have been learning about netball.
Other things within the school
Primary 4 have really enjoyed learning the recorder and have picked it up well.
We had our termly concert on Tuesday which was really good. The recorder players, both primary 4 and 5, all nailed their tunes which was fantastic!
The JRSOs have had a visit from a police officer to show them how to use a speed gun.
The pupil council have organised a coffee morning to support the charity Macmillan cancer support.
P4-7 have been learning about the global goals in eco this term. We have been picking topics to look at; life below water.
We have been learning to have a conversation in French and the older children have been looking at food.
Our feel good song we learnt this term was ‘Always look on the bright side of life.’
We focussed on article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child which is: You have the right to the best possible health.
We took part in a STEM challenge to make a bridge for the three billy goats. We were in groups and had to design and make a bridge that would hold the 3 billy goats and the troll! It was really fun and we worked really well as a team. The bridges were all successful and held a lot of weight!
Out with school
We took part in the Harvest service and performed our Harvest Samba.
We had a lot of prize winners at the Yell Show AND Cullivoe Primary School have been awarded a trophy for the most prize winning entries!!
A few of the children have made the achievement wall this term due to passing their deep end test, winning medalsat various things. So a big well done!
Only 2 more days of school everyone! We are excited for the holidays and for Halloween.
The digestive system
Today we looked at the human digestive system. We watched a short animation that helped us see how food travels through you body and what it does. We then had a sheet where we had to label the organs/parts of the digestive system.
Then we undertook an experiment to help us understand it.
In our pairs we started off with a plastic cup and fork. Miss Nicholson gave us food to mash. The fork demonstrated how teeth grinds up the food in the mouth. We were given banana, coco pops, cracker, crisps and sweetcorn. We mashed this all up then added water to represent the saliva. Saliva is a special chemical called enzymes which do the real work of breaking up the food and lubricates it so that it can be swallowed.
Once we made this watery past we swallowed the food down our esophagus (food tube) by emptying the cup into a sealed bag which was our stomach. Miss Nicholson came around with vinegar which was the stomach acid and we mashed our food some more to show the muscular contractions churning the food and mixing it with the digestive juices. Did you know that food can remain in the stomach for 3-4 hours.
After this process we emptied the contents of our stomach into a pair of tights, this represented our intestines. Digestion takes place in the small intestines. We showed this by squeezing the tights which took all the juices out. This was the nutrients we need for growth and energy leaving the intestines and flowing into the body. Food can be in the small intestines for 3 hours.
The food that we cannot digest along with bacteria turns into waste and passses into the large intestines, this was what was left at the bottom of the tights. The large intestines reabsorbs water in the blood and forms solid faeces. This can stay here for 18 hours upto 2 days! The waste is stored in the rectum until it is passed out of the body.
Did you know in your lifetime, your digestive system may have to process 50 tonnes of food! Now that’s a lot of food!!
Fruit glorious fruit
Today we learned about knife skills and how to cut food properly. We all had an opportunity to have a go at cutting different fruits. We had a diverse range of fruits and tasted each one. There was:
- papaya
- avocado
- black figs
- watermelon
- passion fruit
- supersweet plums
- mango
- blueberries
- pomegranate
- lambrusca grapes
- blackberries and cherries
We all tried everything, somethings we liked and others we didn’t like so much but at least we tried them! That’s the main thing!
We also discussed what a healthy diet is and why it is important!
We completed a worksheet at the end where we had to tick all the fruits we tried (everyone tried them all so they were all ticked) and then we had to place a tick in either the ‘I liked it’ or ‘I didn’t like it’ column. Some of put ticks between the two as we kind thought it was ok.There was a forth column asking us what it tasted like so we tried to answer all of these but some of them was hard as they didn’t really tast of much. At the bottom we showed our understanding by answering the question ‘What is a healthy diet?’ and the older children had a second question of ‘Why is it important to have a heatlhy diet?’
Tottie experiment
After undertaking the hand washing experiment last week and discussing the importance of why we wash our hands we decided to undertake another experiment as germs can be found everywhere, but some places have more germs than others. So this this experiment was used to see where germs are hidden.
This is what we did:
- Miss Nicholson washed her hands, put gloves on and then cut a tottie into five equal pieces.
- We took the first tottie piece and put it in a bag and sealed the bag. We used the marker to write on the bag and labelled this bag as our ‘control’. This is so that we can see what would happen to a tottie without anyone or anything touching it to be able to compare the others with it at the end of the experiment.
- We then picked a surface, we decided on the classroom floor. Whilst wearing gloves we took a second piece of tottie and rubbed it on the floor. After this we placed the piece of tottie in a different bag, sealed it and labelled it with classroom floor.
- We took the third tottie piece outside and lay it in a dirty puddle before placing it in a different bag and labelled it with outside after sealing the bag.
- The fourth bit of tottie was passed around peoples bare hands but since we had washed our hands after the glitter experiment we thought we would rub the tottie on our arms as well as our hands. We then placed this tottie in a bag with a label ‘hands’
- For the final bit of tottie we decided to rub this on the toilet! We placed this in a bag, sealed it and labelled toilet.
- We then took all five bags and place them in a dark cupboard at room temperature in the classroom. We left them for a week.
After we put these away we wrote up what we did and our predictions as to what we thought would happen to the totties.
After the week had passed we pulled the bags out of the cupboard and look at the potato pieces. This is what we found:
- The control tottie had a little white mould on it but hadn’t changed much.
- The tottie that was rubbed on the classroom floor was brown with a little more white mould on it.
- The tottie that was outside in a puddle was dirty, a little bendy and had more more mould starting around the edge. It had a bit of a skin on it so when you bent it the skin broke a little.
- The tottie that was rubbed in the toilet went brown and had a skin on it. It was really quite bendy and when you bent it the skin started to crack and come off.
- The tottie that everyone touched with their bare hands…had the biggest difference! It was squishy and had juice coming out of it. It smelt really bad too!!!
Once we looked at the totties we discussed the germs that are called mould or bacteria. The number of germs has grown so much that we didn’t need a microscope to see them. The mould that we could see on the control is important because it shows us how many germs already existed there. The other pieces started with this many germs but once they had touched other things the tottie picked up more germs.
After our discussion we wrote up our results and discussed whether our predictions were right, close or not what actually happened. The older pupils were really good at supporting the younger pupils.
We then started making posters to remember to wash our hands so that we can put these up around the school.
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 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.
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!
Amy and Emalee come to visit
As we have been learning about living and growing in topic this term, Amy Witt came into school with her baby Emalee today to tell us what it is like to care for a baby. She showed us how to brush her teeth (all 2 of them), change her clothes and change her nappy. It was very interesting learning about everything you need to do and think about when you have a baby. Emalee was really good and a delight to have in school, she liked when Ollie played peek a boo with her. We all got a cuddle at then end too.
Thank you very much for coming in Amy and Emalee!
