How long can 9PLa hold their breath?

Yesterday afternoon 9PLa had some fun learning to read stopwatches! 

Ms Bunce handed out the stopwatches and everyone quickly started playing with them. Two of the boys started to time how long they could hold their breath, so Ms Bunce quickly turned it into a whole-class competition.

Looking around the room I could see faces turning red and there were also students holding their hands in front of each others' nose and mouth to check that no one was cheating! 

You can check out the video from the class below. Unfortunately the real breath-holding competition had finished by the time I remembered I could film it, so this is a less-competitive repeat of the activity!

Great Work by 9PLa

Today our Year 9 classes learned all about the different pieces of science equipment that we use. 

9PLa created some fantastic presentations sharing what they learned about the equipment during the lesson! 

Look carefully for students using the word 'because' in their sentences. We set students the challenge to think about and then explain WHY we use the equipment the way that we do.