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SESE Science Bridge Building

26/1/2023

For this week's science lesson we were working on designing and building a "Truss" style bridge using lollipop sticks, bluetac and string.

The children worked in groups to research and design their bridges. this involved looking at how structures are strengthened and what materials are best to use and why.

Once the group shad their research done they began to test out their ideas and see if their construction project would work.

You can see some examples of our bridges above. We then had to review our work and discuss what went well and what could be improved as we will revisit our designs and hopefully improve out constructions.

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Winter Silhouette Trees

20/1/2023

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For today's art lesson the senior room was working on creating a winter scene, very fitting for the week we've had! The focus of this lesson was scale, proportion and colour blending.

The images were built up from the background to the foreground and silhouettes were added at the final stage to give a greater emphasis to the details of the painting. We learned that in the background things appear much smaller than those in the foreground and require less detail as these are harder to see.

Some fantastic works of art were created today by all the children.

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Science - Spectrum of Light

20/1/2023

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This week in science we were studying about light and more specifically the spectrum of light.

We used the pneumonic, Ring Out Your Great Bells In Victory, to help us remember the colours of the spectrum as these are the colours of the rainbow.

Ring = red
Out = orange
Your = yellow
Great = green
Bells = blue
In = indigo
Victory = violet

Firstly, we had to make a circle with 7 section for the 7 colours and colour these in, in the order of the colours of the rainbow.

Next, we had to cut out the circle, we glued two of them back to back but this part isn't necessary. Once glued we had to punch two holes close to the centre to allow a 60-90cm piece of string feed through.

The two end of the string are fed through each of the holes and then tied to form a loop. On your own, or with a partner (which is easier), twist the colour wheel as many times as you can to build up the speed for the spin!

Once you have the string twisted as many times as you can, simply pull your hands apart. this will cause the colour wheel to spin. What do you think happens? Watch the video below and see and check it out for yourself!

When the colour wheel spins, the colours start to blend together forming "White Light" and the colour wheel appears to turn a whitish colour.

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Snow Day in Cloonlyon

19/1/2023

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The weather wasn't able to dampen the spirits of the children in Cloonlyon on Tuesday as they all made the most of the snow fall and we had a snowman "build-off" between the two yards.

Which one is your favourite? It was great to see the smiles on the faces of all the children and to see them working so well together across all the classes.

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SESE Science Bridge Building

Winter Silhouette Trees

Science - Spectrum of Light

Snow Day in Cloonlyon

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