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Mr Rose brought his water rocket with him this week. The bottle is half filled with water and then the air inside the water is compressed using a bicycle pump. When the clip holding the water bottle is released the air expands forcing the bottle rocket high up into the air. We took a video of this (which is below).

 

Miss Reyner supervised preparations.

We fired our rocket 3 times. This is the best film.

Later Mr Rose demonstrated how air expands when it is heated by adding boiling water to a bowl. A bottle was placed inside the bowl with a balloon on top to catch the expanded air.

As the air warmed up it expanded into the balloon.

Next, we tried this technique with a hot air balloon.

Again, as the air warmed the balloon began to rise.

It carried our little playmobil man up to the ceiling.

We learned that warm air rises and that it expands.

We are lucky enough to have Mr Rose coming up to see us to deliver a series of lessons about Solids, Liquids and Gases. As always he came to the school with a large amount of Scientific equipment.

We watched a solid turn into a liquid and then become a gas.

Mr Rose showed us how when energy is added to an object it makes the molecules (which are represented by the balls) all move about.

This is what happens when water evaporates:

We have studied evaporation and condensation using this method.

 

We were lucky enough to have a visit from the RSPB in late February. Martha, our warden, came in to talk to us about the important of feeding the birds through the winter time.

We looked at a list of common Shetland birds and then played a game where we learned to gather food.
We had to dig and delve for the items.

Next we discussed how we could help feed the birds through the winter time.

Martha showed us how to use orange skins, lard, oats and currants to make food that was full of energy for the birds. Each pupil made a bird feeder.

They looked like this. Mr Gill did not like the feel of the lard.

We put sticks through the orange skins so that the birds could land, perching as they fed.

We took them home for the birds to enjoy.

 It was 9:05am on a dull and wet morning when the new Fetlar Primary website tentatively went live on the web. At least we think its live on the web!! There will be problems with it but it seems to be working at the moment. Comments are currently closed on the website but we hope to get that fixed soon. The whole site is currently in test form and will launch officially on March 12th 2015.

The old website (which will continue in an archive form) will still be available.

Click here for all the News archive from October 2006 – February 2015. 

We hope that our new school website will be live by Thursday 19th February 2015. It will give us the chance to upload videos and offers lots more features than the old site. The old site will still remain accessible with its archive of events from October 2006 up to February 2015. At the moment the new site is still in ‘test’ form.

Voter Week 4th May – 8th May 2015

Events Confirmed so far:

Orienteering with Mr Rose

Climbing Wall at Clickiminn

All pupils will begin Swimming Lessons as part of their usual Unst PE sessions.

Swimming begins on Thursday 29th January.

Please send swimming kit and normal PE kit this Thursday.

New Website Launches February 27th 2015.

For the previous website please click here.

The old website will not be updated after this date.