On Wednesday we were focusing on the solar system and we were looking at how long all the planets take to orbit the sun in 1 year.  – Sam

It takes Uranus 84 Earth years to orbit the sun. – Finn

We have learned that it takes Earth 365 days to orbit the sun (1 Earth year). – Ellis

I remembered that Mars takes 2 Earth years to orbit the sun which we worked out was about 730 days. – Lily-Anne

In pairs or threes we tried to estimate how far we would get around the sun. A few people stood in a circle to represent the sun. Depending on the distance away from the sun, if the planet is closer like Mercury it would be much faster but if it was further away like Neptune then it would be much slower. – Alexander

Today we tried the activity again in the MUGA and Uranus was so far away from the sun, we had to go out of the MUGA. – Isaac

These activities helped us to find out the distance away from the sun and we also focused on the scale of the planets. – Arjun