A team of Year 5 children travelled to The King's School, Gloucester to take part in the Bloodhound Education STEM Challenge. This was run by members of the Bloodhound Team, who are involved in engineering a car which is striving to break the land speed record. 

The morning began with a very interesting presentation about how cars have been developed over the years as well as learning about the work of the Bloodhound Team.  Did you know, the very first car was powered by electricity?  Just imagine what would have happened if we had continued to develop this technology way back then!  

We learned a little about the engineers work and how they thought about aerodynamics and power when designing and testing their car.  Particularly spine tingling, was the video clip of a testing run as the camera allowed us to see what the pilot Andy Green saw during the test run, reaching 628 mph and travelling over 1011km in a very short space of time.

The children were set a K'nex car challenge to design, test and prepare their own prototype vehicle which must have at least four wheels and travel a distance of 10 metres.  

Our intrepid team shared ideas and quickly produced their car, adapting it according to their testing.  

It was a fantastic morning and our team worked very hard as well as had a great time.  

Thank you very much to the Boodhound Education Team, The King's School and parents for allowing the children to go.  Most of all, thank you to our intrepid team of four who were not only brilliant ambassadors of our school but who gave up their Saturday morning to take part.

Mrs Pennington was very proud of them all!