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Camphill Primary School, Ballymena
Next Monday & Tuesday are both non-uniform days - school finishes at 3pm as normal next Monday however any P3-P6 pupil wishing to go home with siblings at 2pm can be collected from their cloakroom doors at this time.  School will finish at 12noon on Tuesday 30th June. Buses will  run on Mon. 29th June as normal and Tues. 30th June at 12noon.  | Little Stars/Big Stars finishes this Friday - there will be no LS/BS next Monday or Tuesday.  | '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.