In each year group the classes will mix together and children will work in teams to learn how to create chain reactions using water, wheel and wave power! Children will learn skills of co-operation, problem solving and perseverance. The teachers in each year group will introduce the day with a powerpoint on forces and chain reactions. The children will then plan and design a chain reaction in groups. They will then make and test their chain reactions, evaluating and improving them as they go, ready for an exhibition in the afternoon. There will be certificates awarded for the best two chain reaction projects in each year group.
Please could your child bring in items on the day itself (Tuesday 5th June) to make a chain reaction, using water, wheels and waves! (See example ideas below). They may start designing and making it at home, and complete it at school with their friends, if they wish. The bigger the items, the better! We would really like to up scale our chain reactions this year.
Parent/carers, friends and family are invited to the whole school exhibition in the afternoon of 5th June from 2p.m. - 2.45 p.m. in the playground. Please sign in at the office and you will be taken round to the playground. If you would like to come in for the whole day, or part of the day, to help out (especially in KS1), your help would be much appreciated. Please let your child’s teacher know.
Towards the end of June, our school has been invited to an ‘InterSchools Chain Reaction Day’ in Salisbury. I will be taking ten children to this event, and our Science day on 5th June will help me to select these children.
We look forward to seeing you on 5th June for the Water, Wheels and Waves Exhibition. Thank you for sending your child in with items on 5th June (no earlier please). I hope you will enjoy collecting resources and thinking about a project with your child!