Primary 7

Titanic Centre Secrets Revealed

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Published: Friday, 16 March 2018 15:42

Last Friday Primary 7 were privileged to welcome Mr Angus Waddington (parent) into school before they visited the Titanic Centre in Belfast. Mr Waddington was the lead architect of the Titanic Visitors Centre.

As part of the P7 Literacy topic ‘Titanic,’ Mr Waddington guided the children through the whole design process of the building and its links with Harland & Wolff. He spoke about the design of the Queen’s Island site and the development of the building from its inception to completion.

Facts and figures were discussed along with a few inside secrets related to the Titanic building. Several modern day myths were revealed too which follows through on the many myths already associated with the ill-fated ship. 

Perhaps after this very informative talk we may be looking at some of the next generation of architects!

Many thanks to Mr Waddington for a most informative visit to P7.

Primary 7 - Probability

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Published: Friday, 26 January 2018 15:57

Fair and Unfair Spinners

Primary 7E had a great day last week doing practical Maths. They made their own spinners to investigate probability.

Primary Seven Visit The Argory

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Published: Thursday, 04 January 2018 16:32

After our first visit being postponed due to the snow, Primary 7 were able to step back into the Victorian era at The Argory, near Armagh, just before we broke up for the Christmas holidays!

The visit connected with the current World Around Us topic of The Victorians. The children were involved in a most creative day as they found out that so many of our modern day Christmas traditions have their roots from Victorian times. Children made Victorian Christmas crackers with quilled cards and also made a corn angel. The fact that wealthy and poor children had a totally different Christmas 'experience' was also developed over the day.

Our children enjoyed the visit very much, especially the Christmas recitation on the landing of the Argory staircase which culminated in the singing of Away in a Manger.

Please see the link below for more photos.

Primary Seven Technology Challenge – Front Doors

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Published: Wednesday, 20 December 2017 11:25

Primary Seven have been busy during the last few days of term putting into practice their electrical skills by designing and constructing working electrical models. Some models have a working light bulb, others have door bells or a burglar alarm.

Great fun was had by all and team work was much in evidence!