This week we were building together with two year 6 classes from the  French/English Lycée International de Londres Winston Churchill.

Classes have learned about materials used in construction of buildings of the Docklands area in the 1800’s and today. We compared structure and materials used for Museum’s traditional warehouse to the modern buildings surrounding the Docklands.

Kids have compared shapes and sizes of several of London’s tallest buildings. We also compared them to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The Shard, London tallest building is 306 m while the Paris landmark built in 1889 is (324 m)

Students faced a challenge of constructing the tallest structure of their own. During the session they were learning about balance, stability and importance of good teamwork.

Both classes engaged with enthusiasm and as our structures grew, the excitement did too!

Few teams have joined forces together, merging the structures into a much bigger and more stable constructions. 

There were competing with different techniques, forms and task dividing methods. 

Students have achieved many geometrically stable designs, creating Docklands of their own!

The tallest structures reached 86-90 cm!

Great work everyone!