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Camphill Primary School, Ballymena
The Travelling Book Fair is in school this Thursday/Friday and next Monday... see class visit times in NEWS below.  | 'Read On' Cancer Fund for Children information is home on Monday 2nd March.... see News below.  | P1 parents - you are invited to your child's classroom for a 'Stay & Play' - see NEWS (2/3/26)  | P5 parents - see SWIMMING Parentmail opening on Monday 2nd March re: starting swimming on Mon. 20th April..... all swimming dates on calendar website.  | P5 Parents - see Parentmail inviting you to your child's Year Group Assembly on Weds 11th March. | Pupil Progress meetings take place Wk.bg 16th March - Bookings will open at 6pm on Monday 9th March via Parentmail. School will close at 1:30pm for pupils on Mon/Weds/Thurs/Fri next week and on 12noon on St.Patrick's Day. 
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P7AS Floating and Sinking Experiment

5th Feb 2026

As part of our theme, Unsinkable, we were tasked with designing a boat using a square of tinfoil.  We had to think about what we learned about buoyancy during our Cartesian Diver experiment in order to model a shape that would float.  

We then tested our design to see how many pennies it could hold before sinking.  We were allowed three attempts to improve our design to see if we could get our boats to hold more pennies.