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As part of our Junior Duke Award, some of us chose to do the puncture repair activity. For this, we had to remove a tyre from a bike, find the puncture, patch it up and put the bike together again. It sounded easy but it was actually quite hard – and very oily – thank goodness we had plastic gloves! Remy’s Dad, who owns Leith Cycle Co. and Caitlin’s Dad very kindly ran a workshop to teach us.
They showed us how to take the wheel off by turning the bike over and releasing the brake cable. Then we used a special tool to take out the inner tube. We checked if the thing that had made the puncture was still in the tyre rim – apparently lots of people get another puncture straight away if they haven’t done this! Then we pumped up the inner tube to find the hole where the air was escaping. This was quite easy because we could feel and hear the air coming out – and it stank of fish! To fix it, we were shown the glue and the patch, and we did this later on with Mrs. Sinclair.
Mr. Dowcett and Mr. Shields then taught us how to re-assemble the bike, connecting the tyre back to the forks. We are really grateful for Mr. Dowcett and Mr. Shields for the workshop and we now know what to do if we get a puncture! Another Bike Workshop will run this term for the next group of Junior Dukers.
Caitlin, Katia, Sophie, Niamh & Amber
January
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Primary 5 Documentaries Premiere
Primary 6 Junior Duke Bike Workshop
Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award
Primary 3 Rainforest Explorers
Primary 5 Assembly Celebrating Burns Night
Easter Tennis Camps with the Judy Murray Foundation
Primary 4 Learn about Life as an Evacuee
U6 Ball – A Former Boarder’s Visit
Seeing Frozen 2 at Fountain Park
February
Careers News Round-up February 2020
St George's U15 Lacrosse Team win Loretto Tournament!
Author Ross MacKenzie Visits Junior School
Trip to the Surgeons’ Hall Museums
Honey Pot Creative Café – Ceramics Painting
Meet 12 Scottish Boarding Schools
Primary 2 Learn How to Care for Their Teeth
Raindrops Make Rainbows - Australian Wildfire Fundraising
Primary 4 Study Electrical Circuits With Makey Makeys
Young Engineers Visit a French Navy Frigate
March
Careers News Round-up March 2020
L4 East District Hockey Tournament
Lower 5 'A' Hockey - S3 Scottish Cup Semi-Final
Travelling Book Fair Visits Lower School
Independent Women Magazine - 2020 Moving Forward
World of Work Day - Forth Bridges Education Centre
World of Work Day - Home Store + More
World of Work Day - Sainsbury's
The TCS Oxford Computing Challenge
Primary 6 Robot Programming Competition
Primary 3 Visit the Rainforest
High School of Glasgow 7s Tournament
Boarding Trip to Deep Sea World
St George's Win Junior Schools Hockey Cup!
St George's Moves to Supported Home Learning
Teaching online with Distance Learning
'We're Better Prepared for Distance Learning Than Ever'
An Outstanding Achievement at the Big Bang Engineering Competition
April
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