On Wednesday James from Scottish Power came to our school to talk to each class about electricity. He told us all about electric cables and how we can stay safe with switches, plugs and power boxes.
Here are some facts we remembered:
- Plugs have 230 volts in them.
- We should switch off switches to help us keep safe.
- Trains take 1 mile to stop.
- There were 3 cables the orange one was for the garden, the black one is for your TV and the white one is for the kitchen.
- Insulators are materials like rubber that electricity can’t travel through.
- It can travel through conductors.
- Power boxes are extremely dangerous and we shouldn’t go near them.
We got to hold 2 different big electricity cables. James had a black crow with a yellow nose called Sparky to help teach the little classes about being safe.
By Ellie Hamilton and Shea McEwan (…a little help from Amy Barnett and Miss McLennan)
Well done P6 you obviously listened carefully to James. I think Jake made a new friend in Sparky! Very good blog post – lots of information and a picture to make it interesting for the reader. Good work Ellie and Shea (Amy and Miss McLennan too!).