SPIDERS and a snake helped pupils mark National Science and Engineering Week.
Queen Anne’s School in Caversham invited children from The Hill Primary School, also in Caversham, Kidmore End Primary, St Mary’s Preparatory in Henley, the Oratory Preparatory in Woodcote and Chiltern College School in Caversham to share a visit from Jonathan’s Jungle Roadshow.
Founder Jonathan Cleverly brought along a collection of invertebrates and reptiles, including a boa constrictor, for the youngsters to examine and, if they were brave enough, to handle too. Using a super-macro function on a video camera, the children saw minute details of the creatures not visible to the naked eye.
A “star dome” with a mini-planetarium was set up in the school’s sports hall and a presentation about the universe was given by astrophysicist Andrew Green, a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and Royal Astronomical Society.
Other activities organised by the school included a dark skies project, a “save the bees” campaign, a “how unique are you?” project and a “Darwin in space” competition.
National Science and Engineering Week is organised annually by the British Science Association to celebrate science, engineering and technology and features events across Britain involving hundreds of thousands of people, mostly schoolchildren.
Published on 30 March 2009
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