Edwin's Flower Experiment!

This is what I did: First I got a cup and put quite a bit of food coloring in it. I peeled the leaves carefully off the rose and then I put the white rose in and left it for 24 hours.

This is what happened: When I checked the rose in the morning the whole rose turned blue! Because I chose blue food colouring. I also saw blue colouring where we had peeled the leaves off and in the sepals (I found out what this part of the flower is called from this website. Here's the information I used...)

This is what I learned: I learned that when roses suck up the water, they suck it up through their stems and it comes out in the flower. The stem is kind of like a straw and when a flower is in the garden the stem takes the water from the ground and takes it to the top. I had to take the leaves off because if I didn't take them off, all the leaves would turn blue first and it wouldn't go to the flower petals as clearly because it would go through the leaves too. This made the colour more obvious.

I noticed that one petal didn't turn blue. I think this might be because we didn't put it in for long enough. We did it for approx 12 hours which might not have been long enough. Or it could have been that that petal wasn't working properly or was dead. What do you think?

McDonald's are coming to visit!

Hi everyone,

Today we got an email back from Mrs Rush at McDonalds and are very excited! They will be coming in to meet with us, talk about shade and look around our school.

By Edwin and Damien P.


We've been working hard and doing lots of investigation, trying to make our deadline of tomorrow. We have also decided to make morning tea for our visitors to make them feel especially at home. The presentation will go really well, I can feel it already!

Miss H

Starting Science Fair...

Today the year 7 and 8 students carried out an experiment to test dishwashing liquid and it's effect on different liquids (in this case, milk, water and apple juice.)

The seniors were introduced to some key words and researched them before knitting together what we found to give a definition we would all understand.  They started to give examples of each term under the headings (eg. they had a go at writing their own hypotheses once they understood what one actually was.)

They're still working through the details but you can click on the following image to see the document that they're all working on.

See how we got on here (photos):

Moving Milk! on PhotoPeach

and video:

Learners, what did you guys think of the experiment and your learning?

Fotobabble and the six thinking hats help us to reflect

This is our groups Fotobabble (made by Jamie, Hossain, Edwin, Ruby and Dani.) It is about the Six Thinking Hats which we use to help us to write a better Learning Journal. To find out more about these hats, check out this link that we found. The Six Thinking Hats - these hats were created by Dr Edward de Bono.

How have you used the Six Thinking Hats?

By Jamie and Hossain