On Friday 28th February, our Year 6 children entered a ‘build-a-bridge’ competition. This was a competition against other schools in the local area and was held at Rookwood School. After a debrief, our two Year 6 teams set to work to create their bridge. They were provided with paper, 3 sheets of A4 cardboard, hole punches, glue, nuts and bolts. The bridge had to be long enough to span a 30cm gap. It had to be strong enough to hold a toy truck which then had weights added to it. The bridge had to be well constructed and designed.

As always, our pupils were a credit to the school. They had a really enjoyable morning with mixed results! They learned a lot about working together in a team and having to work within time limits. It is important to make decisions and assign jobs to people.

 

Working on designing and building…

                        

 

The testing …

       

And again…

          

As you can see, there was a mixture of happy, excited and nervous faces!

BUT… One of teams were the overall winners of the competition! Their bridge could hold the weights, it was sturdy and it had a design that looked good. Well done Appleshaw!

The winners got certificates, a pen, pencil and mini glider to assemble.