P6 pupils travelled to the Ulster American Folk Park today to take part in an archaeological dig at the Mellon Homestead.
The pupils had so much fun learning about historic artefacts from Queen’s student, Jamie then had the opportunity to carefully excavate the ground at Thomas Mellon’s birthplace under the expert guidance of archaeologist, Brian.
Thomas Mellon left Omagh at 5 years old to go to Pennsylvania, USA and through hard work and endeavour became one of the wealthiest people in the USA. However, Thomas never forgot his humble roots and his Ulster-Scots heritage from Tyrone.
Mr Dennison told the pupils he was fortunate to receive a scholarship to go to study at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Thomas lived and worked. He said he even had an account at the Mellon Bank!
Through digging P6 pupils found nails, a gate latch, pottery, broken glass and a stone dating from prehistoric times.
Well done to the P6‘s for their impeccable behaviour, enthusiasm and genuine interest in finding out about the past.
Thanks to Pauline and Hannah from the Folk Park for their kind invitation and hospitality.
P6 used geoboards to explore the properties of square numbers. The pupils all agreed that practical learning is the most fun! Mrs Thompson also agrees with this.
P7 were investigating square and triangular numbers using unifix cubes and counters. They had to work collaboratively and create a poster.
Mrs Somerville took the class outside to get real data for their Numeracy topic. The pupils were looking at Data Handling and how to create a bar chart. Seskinore village is a very busy spot. They were able to collect a lot of data.
As part of our WAU topic on Space, P6/7 enjoyed recreating a scale model of our Solar System using fruit.
After choosing fruit to represent the different planets, we went outside and used a trundle wheel and a metre stick to measure the distance between the planets.
We could clearly see the four inner terrestrial planets and four outer gas planets.
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