We decided to have a go making compasses.

We magnetised sewing needles, using bar magnets.

We placed the needle into a cork base, or used blu tac to stick it to the top of the cork base.

We gathered our basins of water, and in the went.

The magnetic compasses spun around to face north, as we had hoped!

Since we had the water and blu tac to hand, we decided to make some boats, to test floating and sinking! Surprisingly difficult, we took a few attempts to get this right!

Heave ho!

We had a ball and learned a lot while exploring magnetism today!

Holster your spud guns!

We also devised some spud gun plans!

Magnets!

We had some epic explorations and investigations of our magnet kits, thanks to our supporting schools for their resources too!

Huge and massive thanks to Linda, the lovely artist with whom we worked for our Every Child a Reader programme.

She came back to us this September to create this unique and amazing piece of art.

All little and big hands had a part in its creation.

We created a theme, we explored many drawings, we scaled up and chose colours.

We invited last year’s 6th class back- they were vital to the project- and we painted a masterpiece!