Continuing our journey into all things ‘material’ based in science, we decided to construct some bridges and consider the properties of materials while doing so. Each team had a limited amount of paper, cardboard, sellotape, string and scissors. Alongside the resources, they had 5 tokens that could purchase more of each – some teams splashed out on sellotape, some on paper, some kept the tokens ‘just in case’.

What we witnessed was an astounding display of communication, teamwork, perseverance and creativity. All the children were engaged and they just had a really great time!