Inspired by top Innovators!

Year 5 and 6 have had a great week of science and design-technology for British Science Week this week. The theme for this year was, "Innovation for the Future," and we were lucky enough to have not one, but three, top speakers join us remotely.

On Tuesday, Mr Julian Parker, director of Tayhope Enterprises Ltd and Titan Electricity Ltd joined us to talk about innovation. He explained that innovation is just a good idea that builds on what has come previously. The children were inspired to come up with their own inventions that were really impressive.

On Wednesday, Dr Neale Davies, an innovation champion at Clean Growth - a UK university consortium helping move innovative green technologies into commercialisation - talked about how "Teamwork makes the Dreamwork," using Marvel's "The Avengers" as an analogy. The children then had to come up with a list of people who could help them make their ideas  reality.

Finally, today, Mr David Brayne, from Innovate Edge - part of the government's innovation support unit - explained how the jobs of the future will change and that we don't even know what those jobs will be yet. He explained how important critical thinking, the ability to adapt and change and being able to get your ideas across are.