On Wednesday, Year 5 visited an egineering company – OSL – where they took part in  arange of activities linking to the subject. The activities included:

• Completing a circuit to sound a buzzer
•  Using their knowledge of construction to put together a triangle using nuts and bolts
• Conduct an experiment to act against gravity – using plastic bottles, water and tubes

During these activities, the children learnt a substansive amount of knowledge about how to become an engineer and what the job role consists of.

Here are some images of the children during the day:

For the second half of the day, we then went to an architectural business – GGP. Here the children took part in an activity where they had to build their on bridge out of straws, which had to withstand a brick. We had so much fun!