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Camphill Primary School, Ballymena
Colour Run - This Thursday starting at 7pm... A ticket, T-shirt and wristband will be home with pupils attending on Weds. 17th June. Pupils are reminded to come wearing old bottoms/footwear and they may also want to wear sunglasses. | Breakfast Club - This Thursday parents can join their child at Breakfast Club - see details in 'Take 5' Celebration Day in NEWS below (15/6/26)  | P1 parents - last day to order your child's Camphill school bag for P2 is this Friday..... All pupils will receive their own bag on their first day of school in August.  | P4 parents - Have you paid your child's Class Trip to W5 next Tuesday? Last day to pay is this Friday. | P6 parents - a deposit is due before next Wednesday if your child is planning on going on the P7 Residential Trip in June 2027. | P1-P6 parents - Information out on Wednesday in the ‘End of year’ letter about an early closure at 1pm next WEDNEDAY 25th June.  | Have you completed the Safer Schools NI 'Digital Proficiency course' ? - there is still time to complete this - all details have been sent out via Parentmail last week.  | Have a look inside our school building by viewing our new 3D TOUR on the HOME page of our website..... go on a tour by clicking and following the little person icon... | 'Free School Meal and Uniform allowance' applications for the 26/27 new school year OPEN via the EA Connect portal - see NEWS - 2/6/26.. | School Uniform - online shop (under PARENTS area) now open for orders up until Friday 24th July.
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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.