We have been going “all out” to embrace British Science Week at Cairnshill.

 

Wednesday 18^th March - Science Day

Our Science Day on Wednesday proved to be a huge hit! The classrooms were active and there was a buzz of excitement and anticipation as the children were asked to plan, predict, record and investigate.

 

Putting their scientific knowledge into practice, pupils were asked to mix colours, design life vests, observe raisins dance, inflate a balloon without touching it, move water with static electricity and investigate why an orange floats and an apple sinks!

 

 

Thursday 19^th March – Learn Differently Roadshow

The children’s scientific enquiry skills were stretched further on Thursday by Dr Paul McCory from Learn Differently. He held workshops for the whole school, proving that science is everywhere, entertaining and pretty awesome!

 

Pupils lifted teachers in the air, sat on home made hovercrafts, grew marshmallows, crushed tin cans with air and he even made some teachers sit on a bed of nails, ouch!

 

 

Friday 20^th March – Solar Eclipse

Friday morning proved to be an exciting science day too. From nursery to P7, all classes were spotted out in the playground enjoying the wonder of the solar eclipse.  The clouds stayed away at 9:25am for Cairnshill to view the phenomenon. Children and staff were well prepared with a variety of home made view finders. Mr Harvey with his pin hole view finder, Mrs Hamilton, Mrs Sweeney and Miss Bingham with their kitchen colanders!  We will have to wait until 2090 to see another total eclipse.

 

Photographs of all our science events can be viewed in the gallery. 

Many thanks to everyone who helped with our recent 'Coin Trail'.  Over £1400 has been raised which is a fantastic total!  We really appreciate all of the donations and the children had great fun laying a money trail for their class.  Congratulations to the winning classes - P2T and P5V.  Special thanks to those who helped count the coins!  Check out the website Gallery to see some photographs from the day.

During the past week, thanks to the generosity of a Cairnshill parent, pupils have had the opportunity to 'Guess the Number of Eggs' in one of two Easter baskets.  Guesses ranged from one egg to one thousand!  However, the results are now known - the FS/KS1 basket had 41 eggs; the KS2 basket had 44 eggs.  There were two correct guesses from FS/KS1 children and three correct guesses from KS2. The winners were then randomly drawn by Mrs McClure.  They are Matilda (P1B/B) and Scott (P7M).  Congratulations to them - hope you enjoy your chocolate eggs!  Many thanks to everyone who took part - approximately £175 was raised from this event.

On Wednesday, 25th February, two teams of P6 and P7 pupils travelled to the Lough Moss Centre to represent Cairnshill at a tag rugby 'coaching tournament'.  The children competed against other schools from the local area - St Ita's PS, St Joseph's PS, Carryduff PS and Ballycarrickmaddy PS.  There was a big focus on helping the children to develop their rugby skills and all of the referees gave lots of coaching points during the matches.  Lots of tries were scored and  the teams won most of their matches.  Overall, it was a great morning and all of the children thoroughly enjoyed the experience.  They're looking forward to further opportunities to play in competitive matches in the future.