On Monday, the juniors were very excited to be visited by Professor Frank Sengpiel and his colleague Doctor Mark Drakesmith from Cardiff University. The professor came to discuss an event and opportunity, that will further engage our pupils in science. He told us how our brain works, what it does and what it looks like. The children thoroughly enjoyed the assembly and have all been invited to an event at Cardiff Museum on Sunday the 17th March called, "The Brain Games". This event is free and promises to excite children (and adults) about science. The event runs from 11 am to 4pm and all are welcome.
The school would like to thank Professor Sengpiel, Doctor Drakeford and Mrs. Burgess for the assembly and invitation to The Brain Games.
We found out that the back of our eye sees images upside down, our brain however is able to adapt to this and puts the image the correct way up.
Here, we have Miss Morgan and Moss Robinson wearing glasses that turn the world upside down. They couldn't reach and grab the ball however hard they tried.
If you wore the glasses for a few days your brain would flip the image to the correct way up.
Here we can see what the brain would feel like - a blamange.
The children had great fun drawing on Mr. Williams head to show which parts of the brain were used for sight, smell, taste, hearing etc.
This next test was easy, to say the colour. Yet, seconds later the slide show turned to
blue red yellow green purple. Now try saying the colours. It proved to us that the brain doesn't like doing too many things at once. For example, in this exercise it had to read and take note of different colours.
Over half term Miss Harwood went for an MRI scan at the university. The professor was able to show us Miss Harwood's face...
And even her brain. The professor was pleased to report that all seemed to be working perfectly and went on to tell us about how the brain worked.
