{"id":4806,"date":"2019-04-04T10:56:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T09:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2019-04-04T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T09:56:47","slug":"science-day-at-kirkcaldy-west-primary-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/science-day-at-kirkcaldy-west-primary-school-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Day at Kirkcaldy West Primary School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the University recently delivered a science day at Kirkcaldy West Primary School.\u00a0 Primaries 5, 6 and 7 undertook a variety of science interactive activities including physics, volcanoes, rockets, geo science, balance and osteology.\u00a0 The day was a great success in enthusing children about science and showing that science is not one subject.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth year of the Primary School Science Day (PSSD) project which is organised and co-ordinated by Henry Rae Senior Medical Teaching Technician in the School of Medicine.\u00a0 The aim of PSSD is to encourage and enthuse children about science at a time just before going into secondary school and show them there is a wide variety of science subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Colleagues from the School of Medicine, School of Physics, School of Geography and Geoscience along with Univeristy Public Engagement Officer all participated.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the images taken on the day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4807\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2019\/04\/Skeletons-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4808\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2019\/04\/other-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4809\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2019\/04\/panning-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the University recently delivered a science day at Kirkcaldy West Primary School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,1],"tags":[661,898,938],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-outreach-public-engagement","category-uncategorised","tag-kirkcaldy-west-primary-school","tag-primary-school-science-day","tag-pssd"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 07:42:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}