Year 5 Space Race!

On your marks,  get set...GO!  Year 5 have been working hard this term designing and creating their very own moon buggy, culminating in a space race today! They built their chassis out of wood, added their wheels, made it move using batteries and a motor and built a body out of junk materials such as cereal boxes and yoghurt pots.  Our friends and family came in to help us build the bodies of our cars and then we raced them on the playground. It was fantastic fun and really exciting for everyone! Thank you to everyone who came and well done to Adil and Fawad for winning the race!

Super scientists visit Winchester

Year 5 visited Winchester Science Centre today as part of their "Space Academy" topic. They started the day with a rockets workshop where they made their own rockets from lemonade bottles and filled them with a chosen amount of water.   They then used a bicycle pump to fill them with air - you can see the results in the photographs!  Some of us got wet but we all learned something and had fun. After lunch we visited the planetarium where we went on a journey through our solar system,  learning lots of fact about other planets.  Finally we spent some time exploring the exhibits,  finding out about air resistance, digestion, reflection and refraction and much more.  Thank you to the drivers for your help today.