Year 3’s are building bridges!

♫ London Bridge is falling down
Falling down, falling down
London Bridge is falling down
My Fair lady! ♫

London Bridge may have been falling down, but the Year 3 bridges are most certainly not!  And yes, you guessed it…. We even have a London Bridge of our very own!
 
This term, the year 3’s planned, designed, collected materials and built their own bridges for Design and Technology. The students studied different types of bridges and learnt what materials makes a bridge strong and stable and which shaped designs work best for real bridges. In pairs, they used the information to decide if they were going to build a wooden bridge, arch bridge, cantilever bridge or a suspension bridge. Once they had agreed on a type of bridge, the students started their planning process by drawing a design and then sourcing the right materials to make their bridge strong and stable.
 
Finally the day dawned and the students bought all their sourced materials to school. They built, painted, coloured, glittered, glued and even nailed their bridges.  Eventually, after much deliberation, hard work and even some tears, the bridges were ready!   

Besides the beautiful London Bridge, we even had an awesome draw bridge that worked!

Mandy Goch
Year 3 Teacher