The Wonder Project - Designing our rockets

This week 7&8 SWL has started designing our rockets. First we each designed our ideal rocket on paper and then spoke with our ambassador about our designs. Next in our groups we put our designs together and started building our prototypes. We are using 1.5L carbonated bottles as the base of our rocket and a range of other recycled materials for the fins, nose cone and decorations. 

Here are some photos from our first lesson designing our prototypes.

The Wonder Project

This term our class is taking part in The Wonder Project. This week we had our ambassador Lincoln come into our class and help us do our first test launch to test out different water levels and air pressures. 

A visit from Ipo the parrot

This morning we had a visit from a parot called Ipo. Ipo has broken wings so cannot fly and has a condition where he has lost his feathers so wears a poncho. We were lucky to get each give Ipo 3 pats on his head. Here are some photos of the visit.