Little Ships in World War II

We found out all about the Dunkirk rescue and then designed and made little models out of wood.

Working Carousels

We used an electric circuit with a motor in it to make our models spin round.

Swifts go to Thorpe Woodlands

Some team challenges in the morning - get the jelly babies across the factory safely!

Be careful on the low ropes!

You need cooperation and communication to solve this problem.

Ready for a spot of canoeing?

One...Two...Three.......!

We had to duck down to get under this tree!

A leap of faith off the platform on the Powerfan.

A great climbing challenge.

Don't look down!

Zooming down the zip wire.

Another team challenge.

Collecting sticks for the campfire.

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Ready for a sing song on the first night.

Roasting marshmallows after the scavenger hunt on night two.

These oompa-loompas are ready for a spot of caving.

Bullseye for this super archer!

This was the biggest den.

But this one was very good as well.

WE all had a FANTASTIC time at Thorpe Woodlands!

Little Scientists!

We had great fun and learnt a lot with Dr Ken's Science Circus.

Look at us dressed as scientists!

Testing Parachutes

We have been learning about forces in Science. We wanted to find out about air resistance. We tested different size and shape parachutes to see which one made the plasticene fall more slowly. The bigger the better we think!

Then for science week we wanted to get our parachutes to fall from a greater height. So we designed launchpads and rockets using newspaper and drinks bottles.

They looked very impressive - this one won the prize for most attractive rocket.



We pushed air into the bottle using a foot pump. This was meant to push so hard against the water in the bottle that it forces the water out and the bottle up!




The hardest thing was getting a tight seal around the nozzle - we used bluetac.



But it was very difficult trying to get the rockets to shoot upwards and not sideways!

Wind direction and stable launch pads added to our problems! But we had a lot of fun and Toby and Frazer's rocket went the furthest.