P4/5 Netball Tournament

Saturday 4th February 2012

Well done Stromness Sparklers!

Our P5 team came 2nd in the tournament this weekend.

We played very well as a team and demonstrated some super skills, despite only having 3 weeks worth of training before hand. 

Thank you to Leona Gordon and Janice Muir for running our training sessions on Thursdays after school.

Thank you to Miss Pirie for helping us practise our skills during Friday activities.

Here we are with our certificates! :0)

Electricity

Circuit Building

On Tuesday afternoon we got the circuit building equipment out and had a go at building some working circuits.  We managed to make the light bulbs shine, motors spin and buzzers buzz!  We even managed to add some switches into our circuits to control the travel of electricity to each component. 

We had great fun exploring the possibilities! 

Some of the boys managed to find a few interesting uses for the motor.  If you look closely you will see the poor lego man spinning round and round and round! He'll be fairly dizzy after that experience I would imagine!!!  :0)

Maths - Position and Movement

We looked at co-ordinates and following route directions.  We also made up mini battleship games and challenged each other.

 We learned about directions using right, left, 90 and 180 degrees, clockwise and anticlockwise.  We completed a treasure hunt by following directions using these words and found some tasty gold coins at the end.

We even looked at grid references (4 and 6 figure references) 

We had a look at a map of theWest Mainland of Orkney and were pinpointing some locations using 4 or 6 figure grid references.  We had lots of fun finding familiar places on the map too.