With twenty-five people in one room you can be sure if someone has a cold, then before long quite a few other people will too! One sneeze and before you know it , everyone has streaming eyes and sniffy noses over the next few weeks.
OK, so a cold isn’t that serious, but P7 have been investigating how some illnesses are passed from one person to another.
We have investigated what we often refer to as ‘bugs’. They are actually viruses, fungi or bacteria. We discovered that there are lots of different sorts and that they cause all kinds of illnesses – from the mild and quite harmless to the downright nasty!
We also examined how we can prevent their transfer from one person to another. So, lots of work on how to sneeze ‘properly’ and how to wash hands thoroughly.
Just for some fun at the end of our project, we invented some nasty microbes (better name than ‘bugs’) and made them as pom-poms. Each bug has a common name, a Latin name and a list of some of the nasty symptoms they cause. They may look sweet, but never mess with a P7 bug.