An Ascot school celebrated achieving a prestigious Primary Science Quality Mark status by building and launching rockets to demonstrate their student’s ability.

33 year four students took part in the rocket project, named ‘Operation Bottle’, and incorporated both science and mathematics to build the projectiles.

The school achieved the Primary Science Quality Mark (PSQM) as a result of the school’s commitment to the subject. LVS currently run a Year 6 Able Scientists Club, and Year 5 pupils take part in the 3M Young Innovators STEM Challenge each year.

Year 4 teacher Robert Clayton said: “It has been wonderful to see the discussion and reasoning that the tasks have generated within the groups and how they have navigated obstacles to their progress.

“The character strengths taken from the LVS Learning Values and Skills have been prominent as they have needed lots of resilience, confidence to take a risk, empathy to work well with their peers and creativity and curiosity to engage with the idea of launching a rocket.”

Jane Turner, PSQM National Director, said: “Gaining a Primary Science Quality Mark is a significant achievement for a school. The profile and quality of science teaching and learning in each awarded school is very high”.