Students at Creswick Primary School took part in a maths and science day last Friday to celebrate National Science Week.
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The whole school took part in four challenges to explore science and maths activities beyond the classroom by building co-operative skills to achieve goals through practical challenges.
The students were split into their house teams for the multi-aged activity day, allowing them to meet other pupils and work with students in different year levels.
Teacher Katrina Davies said the intention of the activities day was to open the pupils’ eyes to future job prospects.
“It shows that maths and science can be fun,” she said.
“It also helps them to work out challenges in a group setting and experiment with what does and doesn’t work.”
The four activities included challenges which involved applying maths, science and basic engineering skills.
There was the Eureka Challenge, which involved the construction of the largest tower made from newspaper, a challenge involving the building and flying of paper planes, a Titanic challenge to test which boat design could hold the greatest weight and a bridge building challenge to test who could design the strongest 30-centimetre paper bridge.
Students came to school dressed in casual clothes with the provision of providing a gold coin donation to drought relief.
The school’s 192 students raised $350, while the Junior School Council contributed another $150 on top of that.