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5 weeks ago we planted our sunflower seeds.  We had pots of soil and made a hole for the seed.  We covered over the soil and gave it a good water.  Over the last few weeks we have been taking care of them by watering them everyday and making sure they had enough sunshine.  Ours [...]

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We made 2 volcanos out of recycled newspaper and card. We took them outside and exploded them.  We used cola and mints on one, on the other we used fairy liquid, food colouring, vinegar and bicarbonate of soda.  The cola and mint one worked better.
Mini Megs.

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Last month primary 3 were learning about biodiversity and endangered animals and decided to sponsor a kiwi as they are at risk of extinction.  We learned that biodiversity is all the wildlife in the world around us, from wildflowers and insects to mammals and birds.  Biodiversity is very important to our world and we learned [...]

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On one Wednesday, a man called Professor Brainstorm came to visit. He tought us loads of thing about science. He told us about friction and then pulled a cloth off a table with a flowers on the top of it. Because of the speed of the cloth, the friction did not happen and the flowers [...]

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P3 have been learning about electricity in science over the last few weeks.  We learned that it is really important to keep safe around electricity and we made a poster to tell P2 about the dangers.  We put things like don’t touch a plug with wet hands and never stick your fingers in a socket [...]

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We have been very busy trying to attract birds to the quiet area. We put lots of seeds and nuts out for them to eat and put up bird houses on the fence. Have you seen them? We are hoping to attract lots of different kinds of birds for our birdwatch which is happening this [...]

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Primary 3 are going to be taking part in the RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch at the end of January. This week we have been learning about lots of birds that we might see during our bird watch. On the day of the bird watch we are going to set up a hide in [...]

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In science we have been learning how electricity gets from the power stations to our home
Pylons :
Pylons hold the over head power lines that transmit electricity from the power station all over the country.
Power lines:
Power lines are hooked to the pylons to take the power from house to house city to city and country to [...]

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On Wednesday 26th November primary 6 were doing solubility experiments. We were trying to find out how quickly sugar dissolved in water. We did lots of different experiemnts. The experiments we did were changing the solids, changing the temperature, changing the speed of stirring, changing the amount of sugar and lots more.  We used a [...]

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I asked the class to email me some of the things that they had learned so far this term in our Electricity topic.  We have been using www.gaggle.net as an email system.  Here are some of the replies:
A circuit keeps on going round and around or it won’t work so it has to go in a [...]

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