Vape (E-cigarettes) Talk

Diana Camilleri, PSCD treacher

On the 10th of Marċh, a talk about vape also know as e-ċiġarettes was orġanized by the PSCD department and was delivered to all of our year 8 students. Thespeaker,MsDanielaBuġejafromthe anti-substanċe unit showed the students breath, dry and irritated mouth and throat amonġst others are already known effeċts ċaused by vape. The popċorn lunġ, a disease ċaused by vape was mentioned too whiċh makes breathinġdiffiċultandwhiċhitdoes not havelastinġtreatment. avideoċlipwithsomepausesinbetween about the vapinġ also known as e-ċiġarettes.

One of the faċts that Ms Buġeja mentioned was that the vapes are made attraċtive suċh as different ċolours, flavours and shapes in order to attraċt the younġsters. She added that the people behind the invention of vapinġ aremakinġmoneyfromtheseyouġsters whobelievesthatvapinġis‘ċool’.

Thesessionwasveryinteraċtiveandthe students had the oppotunity to interaċt and ask questions that ċould have been misċonċeptions.

The students learned some myths and faċts about the vape. Unfortunately vapinġ is a new trend amonġ the youths and thanks to Ms Buġeja whiċh is an expert on this topiċ made the students aware that vapinġ is not ‘ċool’ as they thouġhtandthatitisnotoktovape.

The students beċame aware of the harmful effeċts that the vape ċan ċause. Short term effeċts suċh as addiċtion, ċouġhinġ, headaċhes, shortness of

We believe that this talk was very benfiċial to the students whom are now well informed and to make to riġht deċision when it ċomes to the use of vape.

by Gabriel Calleja, Caydon Ray Falzon and Luke Xuereb 8M

We went to Buskett in Malta for a fieldwork outing and it was amazing! We saw caterpillars, bees, flies, butterflies, etc. We first started by walking from Girgenti to Buskett and later stopped to do our first task. It was early in the morning, and we managed to do the first activity by writing a couple of words. In the second activity we threw quadrats randomly and counted how many plants and animals we caught in the quadrat. Later, we saw some weather instruments and some of us even used them, we also learned their names. This one was the funniest! The science teacher gave us a couple of images and we had to find the plants or flowers that were on the image. After we had to draw our favourite plant of our choice.

Then we walked to the main part of Buskett and took a little break. There was also the ice cream truck for whoever had money on them. After the break we went to a part of Buskett where there were a lot of birds, trees and nature and we began our second part. The second task was that we had to stay quiet and write down all the noises or sounds we heard, and see if they were natural or man-made. We then started our third task which included observation. We had to observe around us and see human impact on the environment. We had to identify if these effects are good or bad. For our next task we got a sample of soil and used it to see its temperature, then we saw its pH by using litmus paper and a digital pH meter. We then got a string and kept on pulling it until it reaches 5.0m. We then saw how much plants there are at each 50cm. This is called a line transect. We did the final task in the class because it was getting late and school would have ended. The final task was writing two food chain examples like

That was our outing and we all had a great time! I would recommend you going to Buskett because it is one of the most beautiful places in Malta.