St. Emilie's Catholic Primary School — Archive

5G Farm in a glove

This week the Year 5 students commenced a project for their Open Night display. It’s called a ‘farm in a glove’. This activity is linked to the National Science Week theme of Food different by Design. The students will observe how a seed sprouts and investigate the conditions necessary for germination to occur by planting five different seeds in a clear plastic glove.

The students had to carefully place 2 cotton balls in each finger of the glove.

The student labelled each finger before inserting their seeds.

Then the students used a pipette to dispense the same amount of water onto each cotton ball. We wanted to ensure that we are making this investigation a ‘fair test’.

The gloves will be on displaying MPR (Science) on Open Night. Come and visit to see if the seeds have germinate and whether the Year 5 students have provided the right conditions.

Investigating crunchy crisp apples with Year 3.

August 25, 2021
Kerrie Cogger
· Science · Uncategorized · Year 3 · Year 3 Gold

Last week it was National Science Week with the theme of Food Different by Design. Each class has been focusing on learning and investigating different everyday foods. The Year 3 students investigated apples.

We commenced the lesson by learning about the story of the Little Red House.

Then each team of students were given an apple to investigate.

The students had many interesting words to describe their Pink Lady apples. From all accounts the apples were the best that they had ever tasted! Thanks to Gilberts in Southlands Shopping Centre!

We used a ruler to measure the length and width of the apple.

Lava viscosity

June 28, 2021
Kerrie Cogger
· Science · Uncategorized · Year 6 · Year 6 Gold

Our Year 6 students recently enjoyed an incursion with Cecily from Australian Earth Science Education. The topic was ‘lava viscosity’.

The students were shown a presentation where Cecily shared her wealth of knowledge about volcanoes.

To conduct the investigation the students were put into their teams and given a clipboard and three different liquids to test. The students are familiar with ‘fair testing’ so they knew how to identify the different variables in this test.

The students put a blob of each liquid (tomato sauce, glue and honey) onto the clipboard, then elevated the clipboard to measure viscosity.

The students were easily able to identify the lava flows of a ‘shield volcano’ and a ‘stratovolcano’.

The students thoroughly enjoyed the activities that Cecily had prepared for us. Cecily is a regular visitor to St Emilie’s and Mrs Cogger highly values her expertise. Thanks Cecily and Australian Earth Science Education.

Investigating what we use water for at school

This week the Year 2 students went on a tour around the school to investigate the different ways we use water.

We use water for drinking and keeping ourselves hydrated.

We use water for playing at the water trolley and at the mud kitchen.

We use water for the veggie garden. And by the way the Year 3’s planted potatoes this week through the Seed Potatoes for Schools initiative.

We use water in our Science investigations. These next few weeks the children are making their grassy heads. This is a guided inquiry inspired activity with a focus on sustainability.

Update- what’s been going on in the Science lab?

May 24, 2021
Kerrie Cogger
· Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold · Science

Firstly Mrs Cogger’s little kindy friends have been investigating seeds and leaves.

The students put on their safety goggles to remove seeds from veggies and sort them.

Luckily for the Pre-Primary we had a sunny day so the students were able to investigate shadows on the basketball court.

And then in the afternoon Mrs Cogger took the 4G students to the sandpit to conduct an erosion investigation.

Science is everywhere!

Year 6 Science inquiry present their mini-sprinters

December 18, 2020
Kerrie Cogger
· Science · Uncategorized · Year 6 · Year 6 Blue · Year 6 Gold

This week our Year 6 Science Inquiry students presented their mini-sprinters to an invited parent audience.

Kieran demonstrated the angle of the solar panel.

Then the students took their vehicles outside to race them on the track.

Congratulations to all the students who took on the challenge to build a mini-sprinter this year. It was a challenging task with lots of modifications required along the journey.

Mrs Cogger knew it was going to be a very hot day so she treated all of the students to a soft drink can after they had raced their vehicles.

ATOM photography winners

December 10, 2020
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · Science · Year 2 · Year 2 Blue · Year 2 Gold

Congratulations to Alicia Chow and Aisha Dhillon who both won the Lower Primary category in the the ATOM Photography Competition this year.

The winners were acknowledged in a ‘virtual’ celebration. Click on this link to see Alicia and Aisha talking about their photo. Alicia speaks at about the 47 sec mark and Aisha at 1min 4 secs.

ATOM photography

Congratulations again to Alicia and Aisha for representing St Emilie’s and doing so well int eh competition.

Learning about seashells in Year One

December 10, 2020
Kerrie Cogger
· Science · Year 1 · Year 1 Blue · Year 1 Gold

This week our Year ones learned about the interesting creatures that live in shells in our oceans. Each student was given a shell and a magnifier to do their own observational drawing.

Here are a few photos of the students enjoying the experience.

Celebrating Science 2020

Mrs Cogger has created an Imovie showcasing some of the wonderful investigations that the students have enjoyed so far this year. And we are nearly finished…..

Enjoy!

Celebrating Science 2020

Recycling services resume

September 18, 2020
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · For Families · Kindy · Pre-Primary · Science · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

Just a reminder to all families, that our Year 6 Environmental Committee offer the following recycling services to our school community.

Greenbatch

Greenbatch Foundation partners with schools allowing students to collect their old PET plastic bottles through recycling, providing PET which is used in research and development for 3D printer filament. By recycling through Greenbatch we can save plastic from entering landfills, oceans and waste incinerators.

As from Term 3, our green and purple Greenbatch bins will return to the undercover area on Wednesday mornings. You are very welcome and encouraged to bring in your HDPE 2 and PET 1 plastics. PET plastic is the type found in drink bottles and food packaging such as strawberry punnets or peanut butter jars, and has the number 1 inside the recycling symbol.

Battery Recycling

We will also continue to offer our battery collection. The yellow battery bin will be placed out in the undercover area on Wednesday morning along with the Greenbatch bins. Please bring along your unwanted batteries and place them in the bin. Once the bin is 3/4 full we contact the City of Gosnells and the batteries are taken away for recycling.

If you bring your batteries or plastics to school on any other day you will find yellow battery bin in the undercover area and the purple Greenbatch bins parked up by Learning Hub.

Thank you for your continuing support and to our students for their efforts at contributing towards the health of the planet by conducting these recycling projects.