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Science Week Science Fair

he Science Club and layers. Students from ESo2, who competition! or the first time, EIC hosted The Science Fair was publicised
TScience Department did an amazing job looking after ESo1, 2, 3 and 4 students Fa Science Fair on Saturday with a skillfully designed poster,
celebrated this year’s Science them and helping them, assisted completed experiments in 22nd November. Despite designed by Elena in EoS3.
Week by preparing hands-on our youngest students. their science classes, including some rain showers, it was well- Alvaro in ESo4 created an
experiments for every student The rest of the preschool experimenting with non- attended by students, parents amazing booklet featuring photos
in EIC. completed activities such as newtonian fluids that behave and grandparents who were able of all the students participating in
bubble painting, secret writing both as solids and liquids! to try many of the science week science week. He used photos that
Martin Ward and bubble snakes! Particular thanks must to go to experiments in the Forum. A were made into collages by the
Every morning, students from Primary school students made Laura from the Science Club who brunch was served and we saw rest of the students in the ESo4
the pre-school right up to elephant’s toothpaste by mixing helped the science department the opening of the coffee shop. citizenship class (Marc, Jaydevi,
International Baccalaureate hydrogen peroxide, washing up every step of the way. What was Artem, Pol, Ilga, Diana, Kate, Diego
were involved in performing liquid, yeast and food colouring. particularly special about Science Martin Ward and Judit).
experiments linked by the theme The effect was very exciting. The Week at EIC, was that fact that The winners of the "solids, liquids Many thanks must be given to the
‘fluids’. students also did experiments was had huge numbers of parent and gases" poster competition preschool children because the
Preschool students created such as dancing raisins, baking volunteers who assisted the were announced. The winners walls of the Forum were beautifully
‘treasure bottles’ by mixing fluids soda bombs, oil and colour children with their experiments. in the upper primary school decorated with the bunting that
of differing densities and adding bubbles, marble paper or So, thank you to all those parents were Cristina Llauradó, Anastasia they created especially.
objects that floated in the different took part in a boat-building who volunteered to help us! Korolkova, nadija Korolkova, who Plus, more thanks…this time to
each received a chemistry kit. The the students in Ms Pablo’s P5 class
winner from the lower primary who made the wonderful thank
school was Abril Vela obiols, who you cards given to the parents
received some science-related who helped. As you can see, this
books. event brought the whole school
The winners of the boat-building community together: teachers,
design were Pau Aixada, Pau younger and older students,
Balfegó, Mohamed Geswila, parents, other family members
Cristina Llauradó. and support staff.

Reading aloud to children breus

URV Trip
eading to children aloud Martin Ward
Ris so important so many Ms Gazzola organied a fantastic
ways. We may know this but trip to the Universitat Rovira
we may not be sure why it's so i Virgili, in Tarragona. ESo3
important that we read to kids and 4 students were great
when they're small. ambassadors for the school,
listening intently to the tour of
Cristina García the technology facilities. Later
Reading aloud to children it is not on, the students were able to
only a fun but it's also the start of perform two experiments led
the learning-to-read process. by URV students: launching
Many people think that learning a small chemical rocket and
to read is something that happens showing how dirty water can be
when their child starts school but babies start to tune in to the three essential pre-reading know the importance of reading cleaned by addition of harmless
learning to read actually starts sounds and rhythms of spoken skills: phonological awareness, aloud and read a short story chemicals, which has a real-life
much, much earlier than this. language. background knowledge and to students in Primary. A great application for people who have
In fact, the learning-to-read Reading aloud plays a vital vocabulary. experience for both of them. Well no access to clean, safe drinking
process starts at birth when role because it helps develop our ESo2 students and ESo4 done! water.