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The Science Mall
We’re mad about science!!!
By Lewis
On the 5th of May we went to Glasgow Science Centre. Firstly, we went to go in the Science Mall. I went on an activity that
involved changing the magnetic force. You had to press a button then a ring jumped up making a noise when it hit the
ground I did not get a fright because I remembered it from a couple of years ago despite all the others around getting a
fright!
Secondly I went to the crane you had to spin a wheel and the platform moved with all the bricks on it, we could move it
back and forward and left or right. The other thing they were was a Microphone we spoke inside it and there was another
one and you could hear what the other person said.
Also On the 3rd floor they was bubble creator you could make a bubble Wall and there was a ball with a leaf blower and a
through you’re supposed to blow the ball through the rings. Zak challenged me to a game so I went first and I got one I
thought I could win whereas Zak thought differently He got 1 in a matter of seconds then he got it through the second ring,
so that meant that ZAK WON!
By Lewis R
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On the way to the Glasgow Science centre. Miss Stapleton, Logan and
Aaron played a very exiting drawing contest. Miss Stapleton won and
Logan was not happy so Logan challenged Miss Stapleton to a game
she accepted his challenge. At this point I fell asleep not once but
twice it was a long and boring journey but it was so worth the wait. I
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On Tuesday the 5th of May the whole school went to
Glasgow Science Centre. The first place we went was the
Science Mall. I have picked three things that were on the two
floors of the Science Mall. The first one was a SINGING
BOWL!!!! (It does not actually sing its squeaks! Shh). So what
you did was dip your hand in a bowl that has handles. It
would only work if the bowl had handles or there were bars.
Once you have dipped your hand in water you then rub them
on the handles and/or bars. That’s how the bowl sings! The
second thing I chose was an upside down room! The room is
actually upside down but there is a camera and you can sit on
the upside down couch and the camera will make it look right
way up. The 3rd one I chose was the … BUBBLE SHEILD! The
bubble shield has a screen behind so nothing gets hit that is
behind it. There is big window cleaner brush and you dip it in
soapy water and twist the twister that pulls up the brush to
create the bubble shield.
Charlie Marshall
Before we went back to the school p5-7 went to
the gift shop. There was a lot of science stuff but
not all was to do with it. There were a lot of toys
books and some sweets.
It had a lot of cool amazing things that you could
buy and loads of people had at least £3 and
others had £1.50. Loads of people said that was
the best part of the trip. There was a kite maker
kit and Greg and other people were buying them.
Loads of people had fun there and they wished
that they could come back and do more. I bought
a make your own MK spitfire, a piece of rock, 1
drumstick lolly and a tub of farting putty. Loads of
people enjoyed the trip and they want to come
back. By Logan
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By Logan Carruthers
The IMAX
I went to the science centre at Glasgow. We saw a 3D Movie at the
IMAX the movie was called under the sea. But I did not like the
great white shark because it was huge and had massive teeth I also
like the fish I loved the coral reef. The screen was GIANT bigger
than a 5 a side football pitch. I saw a fish that was called a cuddle
fish when it sees a fish it let a fast Tongue and get it.
By Sarah-Jane
IMAX CINEMA
On our trip we went to the IMAX the biggest cinema in Scotland it was massive but when you
put your 3D glasses on it looked smaller I don’t know how. We went to see Island of lemurs it
was all about lemurs there’s a lemur called the mouse lemur it is really vicious and you need to
wear suits to not get attacked. It follows a scientist and her love of lemurs so she goes to find a
rare lemur and one day finds it when she was working and helped open a national park to help
the lemurs have their habitat back after serious fires and tree chopping so there habitat is
gone .N OW SHE CARES FOR A MOUSE LEMUR AND SHE NEEDS TO WEAR PROTECTIVE GEAR
SO SHE WON’T GET ATTACKED BY THE MOUSE LEMURS she has to realise them into the wild or
they become more aggressive .It has being tough for the Lemurs of Madagascar now the
farmers are helping restore their home land so they can have their jungle back to normal.
Amazingly they have a new home to mountains so they can adapt to new weathers that they
don’t have back in the rain forest some lemurs don’t have family’s now people are getting
lemurs from other national parks to help the lemurs get a family back so they can have. ..Little
burrows underground to have a warm Mouse and food.
By Elliot
Laser harp
Island of Lemurs Madagascar
At Glasgow science centre there is a harp with on strings and
you can play it but how Koen body Koen’s you just can it must
be a computer setup and some think it is Laser it’s so cool. At
first I looked at it like way was a harp in a science centre so I
started to play it and it mad noise and I was freaking out. At
the time it was scary more than a ghost.
On Tuesday the 5th of May 2015 Holywood Primary
school went to Glasgow science centre. After we had
lunch we went to the I-Max (the largest cinema in
Scotland) and watched Madagascar Island of Lemurs.
The documentary was about how lemurs where
originally from main land Africa when a storm blew a
patch of earth and tree with a family of lemurs and they
drifted to Madagascar.
Because there were no predators in Madagascar they
bread very well and have developed into over 99 species
of lemur. The lemurs on the raft are the only ones that
survived the storm and Madagascar is the only place in
the world that lemurs are not in captivity.
Because trees are being burned down to make grazing
ground FOR CATTLE less forest for lemurs. However the
ring tail lemurs are the only lemurs that have adapted to
live on rocks and they achieved it by sticking together.
By Jack Storey
We went to the gift shop in Glasgow its really
expensive but I bought nothing. It was really exiting in
the gift shop looking at all these things to buy.
Primary 1 got a light up axe.
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Lemurs
On the 5th of May 2015 P1-7 went to
Glasgow science centre.
Science trip!!
What happened first?
We came to school feeling very sleepy. We went into
school sat in the hall got everything we needed. We got on
the bus and off we went.
After we had lunch we took a short stroll
to the IMAX screen room the biggest
screen in Scotland. The film that we would
be watching was an educational
documentary about Lemurs narrated by
Morgan Freeman. Did you know the
bamboo Lemur is the rarest Lemur in
world and only eats bamboo, and mouse
Lemurs are the most deadly and small
Lemur of them all. The only place where
you can find lemurs in the wild is the
island of Madagascar but sadly the island
is endangered for them because of forest
fires for farming and grazing for animals,
and if that does not stop well all the
Lemurs will become
Extinct 
On the bus!
The bus trip took us about 2 hours so that would be long.
On the way we saw sheep, cows. And we played games we
also looked out the windows.
By Scott
Bike breakfast
We got there!
We went in the Science Mall. We put our bags and stuff
on our pegs we almost forgot our snack so we went back
and got it. We had snack and the tables were really big.
What we did!
We got to explore for a little bit there was a big stage, Isla,
Chloe and I possibly went round everything. We
investigated a lot of science experiments.
On the 22nd of May Holywood
School are doing a bike ride come
with your helmet and check brakes
and tyres miss dale will bring out
the bacon butties.
Crazy ~ cars!
We went into science crazy ~ cars. We had to go in twos
the tables were blue, red, and green and yellow me and
Isla got sent to the blue table. We talked about cars and
then we had to build and race our own crazy cars.
Going up the lift!
When we were in the lift every one sang the theme to Star
Wars. The lift was big and I mean really big the whole class
could fit in it.
By Elise
Sniff Look and Listen
We had to smell in some pots. The pots had
some things in them like chocolate, minty
toothpaste, roses and oranges. We had feeling
boxes that had maracas and a blue wig. We
played Granny footstep. We sneaked up on
Granny and tried not to wake her up. If we
woke her she turned her head and said 3, 2, 1
GETS BACK!
On the way to the Glasgow science centre Miss Stapleton, Logan and Aaron played a very exciting drawing
contest. Miss Stapleton won and Logan was not happy so Logan challenged Miss Stapleton to a game and she accepted
his challenge. At this point I fell asleep not once but two times it was a long and boring journey but it was so worth the
wait. I hurt my neck while I was sleeping every time I look at the right it hurt. On the way back we Miss Stapleton and Zak
had interns no talk contest it was a draw in the end. I came 5th it’s so hard not to talk. It’s like the end of the world
everyone was trying so hard miss dale mad up these annoying idlers then I went home happy in the end.
By mark Philips
SCIENCE MALL
On the 5th of May we drove on a bus to Glasgow Science Centre. When we walked in we went to put are bags away.
Then we walked to the second floor there was a MINI CONSTRUCTION SITE! We ran into the site in the construction site
there was a mini crane that you could lift foamy bricks and concrete.
In the mini construction site it was hard putting all the bricks into a pyramid and turning the wheel to make it move up
and down and turn it right and left, I enjoyed it but it was really tiring.
At the corner of the room there was a mini dust devil/tornado. You wait for it to form and you can put your hand into it
to make it disappear if you had a cold hand it would turn into water.
Next to the tornado there was a huge touch screen that you could enlarge and shrink photos at the bottom there are
photos that you tap and they pop up. I enlarged a bug and scared myself with a photo of a spider. By Zak
The Gift Shop
I went To the Gift Shop in Glasgow It was fun I
bought a bracelet.
The primary 1s went the 2 3 I had two pound for
the trip and I bought a bracelet and a pack of
colouring pencils.
The primary 1s bought light up axes.
By Ebony
Lightning bolt and cockroaches
When we arrived at the science centre when I so the so
cockroaches I was amass and they were reel they were
all were all shapes and says as ilea that they were
groom there was a camera that should show you the
cockroaches the cockroaches were massive. It was black
and brown the light bolts were crazy fast when you put
your hand on the ball it buzz onto your fingers the light
was blue it was shinny very shinny it gave Blair an
electric shock it was in a big glass bottle. By kye
LEMUR Film at the IMAX Cinema
We were at Glasgow science centre on Tuesday. We went to see a
move called lemurs. They war living in Africa on the island. They
were exploring the country. They speak like a weird animal. When
they speak they speak one at a time. They are very polite and
respectful to each other. The Lemurs eat hard wood. The Africans
burn the tall grass which then makes it impossible for the lemurs to
build their dens. The grass will grow back but until then the Lemurs
can’t have families. The queen carries her child on her back until
they are big enough to climb by themselves. The queen always
speaks first as she is the leader of the pack. She protects the pack
and den from other animals including monkeys, chimpanzees,
humans and some spiders.
By Hayden
The Marble Run
This is my exiting thing I found at Glasgow science centre
first you press the button and the lift takes the balls up and
the ball goes thru the loop and the maze it is good relay
good at the science centre there are yellow balls the button
is white the maze is a silver the Box that controls it is a red
Box. The marble run is about the same length and width as
our classroom there.
The beach ball fan was nice and good you had to get the ball
although the fan. The pattern is grey and big the hoops are
small and thin you blow the ball throw the hoops it is
excitably easy.
By Hamish
By Rhys P1
Larsson P1 wrote all about our Glasgow trip!
Glasgow science centre
At Glasgow science centre there was a cold bottle full with
water if you walk up you can see if you are hot or cold if you
are red you are hot and if you are blue you are cold. The
bottle was blue my face was red and my hands where red
and it was cold the thermal imaging camera.
By Gavin
Every Thursday a group called Let’s Get Sporty will come to do multi sports like rugby, football sprinting athletics
hockey etc.
Bring a pound each session to pay for the fee. We have to Bring your gym kit (not a football kit) on 12th 19th 26th May
and 9th 16th 23th June in order to take part. If we forget our gym kit we cannot join in it would be sad not to join in
because everyone else would be having fun and you just sit and watch that would be boring. Mark says is better than
football because he likes tackling. Zak says he loves football more than rugby because his dad liked it for years. He goes
to matches with his dad rarely. In the athletics we think we could improve in throwing skills in sprinting we think we will
improve your pace. In hockey we think they are going to tell us the rules and how to a hockey stick.
By Zak and mark
Glasgow science centre
Glasgow science there was advanced beach ball and an air
mashie although some hoops you had to get the ball throw the
hoops I thought it was hard but I done it the ball was a lot of
fantastic colours. It was cool but the hoops where sideways
there where 2 hoops. There was a gravity mashie there was
three bouncy balls the top one was fab when you put the
three balls up in the air when you throw the balls down the
top one shoots up in the air. The singing bool when you whet
your hands then you rub your hands on the handle then the
boll sings I liked it cos it was the best thing in Glasgow science
centre. On the lift was cool cos it had a see throw window
there was 2 doors you did not know what one was going to
open ones the door opened at both sides when it stopped
your legs started shaken it felt like you were going fall blown it
was epic. Then we had lunch the lunch bit was well big the sets
where bulleting to the tads. The escalator it goes up and down
we only used it once and we went up not blown some people
fell at the top where you have to step off.
By Dylan
Glasgow Science Centre
On Tuesday the 5th of May 2015 Holywood primary were on a bus trip to Glasgow
science centre. The pieces of science that I liked were the Lazar Harp, lightening
ball and a cycling skeleton. The Lazar harp was like a harp but with invisible
strings. Some times when I was playing older students were putting their hand
through the lazar and made it go weird it was a bit off putting but hand when they
were putting their hand on the Lazar I was annoyed but I did not want to show
them that I was mad so that they did not do it again and annoy me again. I think
that it was a very good peace of science. My next piece of science the at I liked
was a lightening ball. I think that inside is a I did not make it look like I was mad so
that it would not happen again. I think that inside is a electric ball that when it
senses heat on the outer glass it makes an electric wave which follows the heat
around the glass. My final best thing is a cycling skeleton, it is a large skeleton that
shows you how much of your leg that you use just to peddle a bike. I thing that it
was made by a belt that when you peddle, it turs a belt that moves the legs to
show how much of your leg is used during peddling a bike.
By John
CRAZY CARS
On the 6 may Holywood Primary School visited Glasgow Science Centre to make car-azy
cars. First we talked about safety with the glue guns and propellers. To make our cars we
use something out of the recycling bin. For the wheels we use milk lids and a wood stick to
hold together. The axel was a straw. To put it together we used a hot glue gun. We also
learned about aerodynamics. They also told us what a body of a car was called. I already
knew. It was a chassis.
By Cameron
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