As a clan we have continued to look at the Victorian era as this has really interested us. After looking at jobs children did in those days, we began to explore inventions. We found out that the Victorian era was a time of change and different things were invented to make life easier. From this we explored the different inventions around the industrial revolution and the invention of toys.
We explored a timeline of toy inventions and had a go at creating our own Victorian spinning top with very little materials. We came to realise that toys were very different to those we have now.
This led us on to our engineering project. We looked at the job of an engineer and objects around us that may have been engineered. From this we began to think about a toy we would like to create and began to come up with ideas and plan our inventions.
Finally, we made a final labelled drawing of our design along with a persuasive letter persuading an engineer to make our toy. Over the next couple of weeks we will work on presenting our designs to our clan and one will be chosen to represent our clan at the whole school Dragons Den competition.
We have also been enjoying our new class novel – Rivet Boy, which is based in the past when the forth rail was being engineered. We are really enjoying this story.
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