Dr Wiggins Bursts a Balloon with just the energy of light.

Solid – Liquid – Solid !!! amazing slime made by p6a, that changes state!

These are wmv files (which is a Windows File, so may need windows to play it).  I’ve viewed them back using Internet Explorer so they definitely work using that browser.

As part of our Science and Engineering Week, tonight we had our star gazing workshop with Gary, our brilliant volunteer astrophotographer, for P4s and P7s with their parents/carers.  Unfortunately it was too cloudy to get outside to see the it live, but Gary kept us all enthralled with his amazing photographs and videos of his own balloon launch into space.  He was brilliant.  I hope all of you who attended, parents/carers and pupils enjoyed it as much as Jamie, Jude and I did.

I’ll post links to the stuff that Gary has given us on facebook and youtube later in the week.

Thanks, Gary.

Another great day today.  We had Dr Mark Wiggins, a Laser Physicist, who explained all about his work with laser technologies.  He even managed to burst a balloon just be concentrating laser light on it.  Also today we had Gary Campbell, an astrophotographer, who held workshops with the P5s and P6s on photographing deep space objects.  Mrs Harrison carried out workshops with the P5 classes on What’s the Force.  And Susan Stanford (along with her husband today) and Mrs Pike were back in school for the P1s to carry out their experiments and more classes to see her cool demonstrations.  P6a made slime with Ms Tees that constantly moved from a solid to a liquid state! (I have videos of the slime and of the laser balloon popping that I’ll try to upload to the blog)

We continue our brilliant Science and Engineering Week with the P7s working with Susie Burr, looking at the rich nature of the Galapagos Islands and studying snails.  We also have P2s, P4s,P5s and P7s all meeting Susan Stanford, who is a science lab tecnhician.  Pupils have been carrying out investigative science experiments this morning and Susan will be demonstrating some exciting scientific effects this afternoon.  Susan is here all week and will meet every class in the school twice.

Thank you, in advance, to all our volunteer visitors who will be coming in to school over the next week to share their expertise with the pupils.

Today we’ve had Pat Duchart doing wax work workshops with the P3s, Mr McNeill talking about production engineering with the P3s, P4s, P5s and P6s, Mr McCulley who is telling the P1s and P2s about refrigeration transport and Dr Bolanos, who is carrying out bateria workshops with the P6s and talking to the P7s about pharmacological bacteriology.

Lots more coming next week.