Brilliant Basketballers

We have been learning basketball this term in class P.E.

We are enjoying learning different ways to pass the ball and move around the court with it. We can dribble it, pass it or bounce it to our teammates. 

Some of us have become masters at dribbling the ball with both hands! Today, we tried shooting into the nets in a class 'shoot off'. It was exciting.

Look at our cool shadows!

We are looking forward to playing a mini tournament next week. 

Unfortunately, it was not nice enough weather to take the lesson outside into the sunshine  like we did last week... we were worried the balls might fly away.

Making Super Soup

In Primary 3/4 we planted our own vegetables at school. when we came back from our summer holidays we dug up our vegetables. We decided to make soup with them. 

 First we washed them and peeled them. They were very muddy.

Next we chopped them all into cubes & put them in the pot with boiling water.

After about 30 mins we left it to cool. Miss Archibald liquidised it and we all had a cup outside.
 It was delicious. 

We heated it up and had another cup on Friday, yum yum!

We have made a wall display outside our classroom with loads of photos of us. Please come in and see it.

By Sinead

Destination Space!

The last thing we did for the science festival was called Destination Space. It was fun. We got to see what astronauts do when you go into space. It was really interesting to learn about the fire boosters that blast the rocket up into space. It helped us learn more about space and what it would be like on a space mission.

Blast off!

Uh oh, getting dizzy.

A space mission would take a long time. It might be scary because of the pure darkness out in space. The astronaut needed a really thick suit so it must have been really sweaty inside it.  You could make your dirty water or wee into water that you could drink... yuck!

This is poo floating around in space!

Mrs Williams had a very funny space suit on! It was like pyjamas. 

By Eva and Miss Archibald

Amazing Arcs and Sparks

Last week for the Science Festival we went to the amazing Arcs and Sparks show! It was loud but exciting. They even sang happy birthday to Brooklyn the mechanical way and played Lady Gaga.

These are the machines that made the noise.

They chose volunteers to do some electrical experiments! 

By Iona

Brilliant Bubbles!!

This morning, we had another visit from the Science Festival. It was all about bubbles. It was really interesting. We got told about all the different colours you can see in bubbles. I got to blow bubbles into a bubble cage because it is my birthday.

The man also made a bubble caterpillar and a bubble volcano. It was fantastic!

By Brooklyn

Super Science

On Friday, we went to Stenness School for the cool science show. It was all about getting active. They had some funny cat ears people could put on. They moved up if you were feeling excited and drooped down if you started feeling sad. The children that had them on must have been excited because they were always pointing up!

They were telling us all about muscles and fat in our bodies. We can get healthier by being active and exercising. Mr Dearness helped with an experiment. He got small shocks of electricity on his arm and had to try and keep his hands still but they kept on shaking. It was so funny! 

By Josie