For Science week, we discussed how big ideas lead to new discoveries and inventions, that everything in front of us started off as an idea in someone's imagination.
4th class pupils watched a young girl interview Professor Luke O'Neill who works as an immunologist and has made key discoveries about our immune system.

4th class were set the challenge of creating the "Next Big Idea", for the Willy Wonka Factory...
"Charlie needs your help. He is all out of ideas for his factory and wants you to dream up the big invention! What will it be? Can you design the next big idea for Charlie’s factory?"

We had to create an innovative name, have a purpose for our invention, name the materials needed for our simple machine- cogs, levers, pulleys..., decide on the measurements and scale. Finally pitch their next BIG IDEA to their peers.
We also looked at the curious chemistry of water, where professor John Stephens explores the atoms of water H20 and he demonstrates how acids and bases can dissolve in water through different experiments.