We would like to hear feedback from you about what you thought about our trip last week to the River Thames.
What did you enjoy about the trip?
What did you learn?
We will pass on your comments to the Schools On The River group, who organised the day with us.
Miss Gale
I really enjoyed the trip with my group. I especially enjoyed the walk from the barge to Teddington Lock. Peter, our skipper, pointed out lots of different species of bird along the riverside. I also found the experiments on the barge very exciting!
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My trip to the River Thames was very informative and I enjoyed being with my class mates.
ReplyDeleteWe carried out different experiments and from them we learnt that clay stops water coming through the cotton wool into the cylinder.
The second experiment which I found very interesting was when peter poured the cold river water into a cylinder and we had to check the temperature with a thermometer.
By Jasleen
Trip to Thames Boat Project
ReplyDeleteOn the day of my trip, 17th of March, I reached school accompanied by my father, at 8:40am. We were going to the river Thames boat project and my dad was coming along too. I was super excited.
First we went to Teddington Lock. Then we crossed a truss bridge. After that we saw a man waiting for us ,he was standing by the benches. His name was Peter and he was our guide. First he taught us about the weir then the lock. The weir let's water go out or in and a lock let's boats go out or in. He also showed how a lock works. I liked seeing that. We saw it at low tide.
Then we went to the foreshore and we were given a sheet containing a list of things we needed to find out at the foreshore. I found everything on the list and it was fun exercise.
Then we walked all the way to the barge that took 1 hour. I saw lots of new things and Peter explained them to us.
When we reached the barge we had our lunch there.Then we started to do some experiments. We first tested if water would pass through gravel,chalk and alluvial faster.We discovered water passed through gravel the fastest then alluviam and finally chalk. From the experiment we learned that as gravel had big holes in them water, travelled faster through them. As alluviam and chalk didn't have big holes in them water travelled slowly through them.
Our second experiment was about Thames water I learnt that fish can get hurt if you throw rubbish into the water. We learned that we should not throw rubbish into the river as it is harmful for the marine life. We noted the temperature of the Thames water. The temperature at the surface was more as sun rays could hit the surface easily but the temperature at the bottom of the river was less as sun rays couldn't reach there. We also discussed about the pollution of the Thames water. We also learnt that the rocks at the bottom of the river was sedimentary rocks.
That was all we did in the trip. I enjoyed it very much and learned about a lot of new things.I want thank Peter , Sarah and all the other people how made this trip a wonderful experience.
By Aaratrika
Teddington Lock:
ReplyDeleteThe river trip was so much fun. On. A scale to ten, I would say ten out of ten. My favourite was the afternoon to the beach, but there was high tide so we stayed on the steps. I also liked the quiz and looking at real life weirs and locks. In the morning we tested the river water in the wheelhouse of the barge. Then in the bottom deck we saw which material would let water through quickest with Sally, the assistant. The materials were Alluvium, Clay, Chalk and Gravel. I predicted Alluvium because it's like soil which lets water through very quickly. My group used chalk and in the end we had lost 12ml of water because it was stuck in the chalk! The clay had been going for more than one hour! In the afternoon we had a long walk. Peter, the guide, showed us (and told us about) the half mile tree, the Hawker Centre and the boundary stone of Kingston and Richmond. Afterwards, there was high tide so we were nearly very lucky but unfortunately the lock doors couldn't open. Peter also told us that a boy asked if he jumped in the river who would rescue him. Peter replied nobody because the boy would have jumped in on purpose. At the end of it we all threw our stick in the river to see whose stick would come under the bridge first and Senuda won. Finally we got the slow bus back to school. What an exhausting day!
-Posted by Anya
On the trip it was really fun. In the morning we tested how clean the water was in the Thames Venture and it was 4/5 witch was really clean for a river but it still was not clean enough for us to drink.
ReplyDeleteThen after we started doing another experiment to do with these types of rocks Gravel, clay, chalk and soil. What we had to do was to test witch won could drown water the fastest. I gust Gravel and I was correct it was Gravel. Then chalk came second , soil came third but we did not test clay because the group before us tested it and it went for more than a hour.
Quickly we ate lunch and swapped groups and we went to Tedington lock to look at the locks and peter the leader pointed birds on the way.
Lastly we played poo sticks and first Sanan was in the lead then I won it and finaly we got to our school and went haome By Senuda