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Camphill Primary School, Ballymena
School is closed for the Halloween Break and will re-open again on Monday 4th November. | 'BREAK THE RULES' fundraiser - Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! We raised £1567.95 for school funds and we are so delighted! This makes a huge difference to our run-up to Christmas activities. The money also paid for Aladdin the pantomime and we are very thankful!  | ANNUAL TOY SALE is coming in November...... maybe over the holidays pupils can start to gather any unwanted toys and send them into school for the sale. | P2 parents - See Parentmail - 'Three Little Builders' STEM workshop in school on Tues. 5th Nov. | P3 & P4AMcL parents - please see Parentmail sent on Thurs. 17th Oct regarding an invitation to a 'Fresh Little Minds' workshop in early November. | P4 parents - see Parentmail - Class Visit to Ballymena Library on 7th November | P6 parents - See Parentmail - Trip to Ballymena Academy to see School Musical on Tues. 5th Nov. | P6 parents - See information in Parentmail regarding a 'Viking Workshop' coming to school in Jan'25.
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P7AS Floating Activity

3rd Apr 2022

As part of our Titanic topic, we have been looking at an object’s ability to float.  Why do some objects float while others don’t?  We learned about density and about how the weight and the volume of an object will affect its density, therefore its ability to float, even if it is made of a heavy material like steel.  

We predicted whether a ball of plasticine would float or sink. After testing it and finding that it sank, we had to work out how to make the plasticine float.  We remodelled and tested our new shapes.  We then counted how many marbles our models could hold before they sank.  

We persisted well with this task; some of us taking time to remodel time and time again to get our models to float.  ðŸš¢