Human Flag

On Tuesday morning the entire school including all the staff put together an 1100-person human flag to celebrate the UAE’s birthday. Watch the video below to see it all come together in just a minute and a half!
See if you can spot us? we are holding black about a third of the way in.

Personal Histories

 

We’ve recently started our new unit into personal histories. Can you guess who’s personal history these pictures belong to?

                                                      

What is light?

Today we became detectives. We read a book where the characters were trying to solve the mystery of how rainbows are made. We then had to see if we could make a rainbow ourselves. We had tables set up with torches, paper, glasses, mirrors and cd’s. We quickly set to work trying out different hypotheses and techniques to make a rainbow. Some of us were more successful than others but after a few modifications and even more hints, we had rainbows covering the walls of our room:

     

                 

                               

One of the most important experiments on light was made by Sir Isaac Newton. He discovered that sunshine (white light) is made up of many colours. Sir Isaac Newton passed a beam of white light through a prism, which allows light to spread out into a band of six colours.