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What happens to sugar when it melts????

Today the senior room made honeycomb here's how we made it.

Ingredients :

200g of sugar 

4 tablespoons of golden syrup 

1 spoon of baking soda 

Tray with baking paper

Saucepan

Method :

Melt the sugar when the sugar has melted and add in the golden syrup.

Let it boil for ten minutes or until it bubbles. 

Then add the baking soda. 

Wisk it for a couple of seconds and then pour it on the tray really fast. 

Ask an adult for help with this.

Then let it set for about an hour.

                       Enjoy (P.S mind your teeth!!!!!) 😃

The Lever and the Pivot!

Today we learned about the lever and pivot. We learnt that a pivot moves the object and the lever tells the pivot what to do. We had to colour and cut out the dogs.

The aim was that the dog would wag his tail and move his tongue. In this case the lever is the tail and the tongue, and the pivot is the pin holding it together. When our dogs were all complete, whenever we moved the dog's tail the tongue moved with it!

By Sophie and Liam! 😃

Engineers at work

This week we had a bridge making competition. It was for the Discovery Primary Science. Our bridges had to hold 500 grammes. The bridges were designed with wood, paper, lego, pencils, building blocks, hot wires, straws, plastic cups and cable ties. These are the pictures of our bridges.

This is the strongest bridge. It is made of wood and nails. It is painted. It was built by Kieran.

 

This bridge has electricity. It was built by James.

 

 

This bridge is made using Lego. It was built by Liam.

 

This is a very creative bridge. it is made using a lot of materials - plastic, wood, pencils, elastic and cable ties! It was built by Niamh.

 

 

This bridge is made of paper. It was built by Michael.

 

 

This bridge was made using cardboard and plastic cups. It was built by Sophie.

Trip to the bridge

For the Discovery Primary Science program, We decided to go to find out more about our local bridge. 

The bridge is on the way as you go to 'The City'. We were split into four groups and we had to find out information about the bridge. 

We found out that the bridge is an arch bridge, There is a river under the bridge, the length is 18m, the width was 5m, the height was 5m and the height of the wall was 1m. 

We used a trundle wheel to measure the length and width of the bridge. We used a weight and some string to measure the height. We dropped the weight down into the river. We marked the string on the point at the top of the wall. Then we measured the distance from the weight to the mark. 

We found the bridge was made of concrete and stone. It is a very old bridge. We learnt a lot more about our local bridge! 

By Liam and Sophie 😄

3D shape

Yesterday Michelle , James and Orla made a triangular based pyramid.

We used:

Marshmallows 

Straws 

This is how we made it:

We got a marshmallow and stuck a straw through it and we did the same with the other 3 straws. 

Then to stick it all together we cut the straws into quarters and stuck them through the marshmallows at the bottom. And for the finishing touch we put a marshmallow on the top!!! As easy as that 

                                       Enjoy your shape😃😃

Math's Trail, Junior Room

As part of the Discovery Primary Science and Maths award the pupils in the Junior room did a maths trail today.

 We counted items and we found both 2D shapes and 3D shapes within the  school grounds. 

We estimated distances and then we calculated the correct answers. 

We enjoyed our Maths lesson today.