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Tim Peake -QR codes to websites and Blookets made by Ibis class
Ibis have been looking at the planet Mars and found out that you can jump 2.7x further on Mars than one Earth. We measured how far we could jump and then converted the results with the furthest jump being over 5mlong!
Ibis took part in the Road to RIAT Challenge where we designed, made and tested our own rockets.
Kingfisher Class became aerospace engineers, building and testing rockets as part of our STEM Day!
We looked at Levers in Year 5 and 6 and tested how moving the fulcrum worked as well as changing the weights on each end.
Ibis Class created parachutes to test air resistance within our Science lessons.
Road to RIAT
Year 5 had the opportunity today to spend time taking part in a national Air and Space Engineering Challenge. The aim of the challenge sponsored by the RAF was to encourage children to potentially think about engineering as a future career. We will meet with engineers and scientists later on this half term, called STEM Superstars.
We made gliders, learning about the fuselage, empennage, wing shapes and the different forces that act on them. We then tested these out, recording distance and time of flight, which then allowed us to find out the speed at which the gliders flew.
Our afternoon was spent designing sustainable aircrafts which will then be entered into a national competition.
Ibis class have used sweets to practise making classification keys within Science this half term
May the force be with you!
We have been learning about forces and magnets during the Spring term. We learnt what a force is in terms of push and pull. We also investigated magnet strength and friction. We created our own compass using magnets.