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Sir Isaac Newton, at nearly 400 years old visited Bohunt School in March 2007 to meet pupils and give a presentation of some of his scientific discoveries and explanation of his principles. It was a fantastic opportunity, and our thanks go to Lesley Morris and the staff at Bohunt School for organising this.

After the performance which had us riveted by his demonstrations showing us his laws of motion, centripedal force, colours within light, and Newton's Craddle, the pupils spent time talking with Sir Isaac Newton.

Written and performed by Amy, Jessica, Amie, Daniel and Dominic at Stepping Stones School. These students were studying similes in Literacy, and took photographs from around the school site, and used descriptive language to describe what they saw. This video was produced using iMovie.

This video has been uploaded to YouTube.

Cinema Club go-ers had great fun this evening with egg-tastic...

The youngsters were challenged with the task of dropping one of Jonathan's 'past sell-by-date eggs' from the balcony of the new mezzanine floor. The rules were simple, use whatever means possible to protect the egg from breaking when dropped from a fixed height.

A range of materials around the school was made available for this activity. Here are some photographs from the evening.

Dominic and Ellie attached a parachute to their containerAmy and Amie rather cleverly attached a bungy to their egg container

Each team gave considerable thought to the design of their egg container since all were successful in preventing the egg from breaking after the 3.5m drop.

A recent project by heppell.net has been to produce postcards from 12 of the most innovative learning spaces around the world.

This one is of Stepping Stones School in Surrey, UK.

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Want one? Email: enquiries@steppingstones.org.uk

See the full set of postcards.

(animated in Keynote, exported in Flash)

The new mezzanine floor extension is now complete and is being used regularly. Downstairs, the red door leads into a very well equipped physio room.

Upstairs, the space, although setup for teaching music, can be adapted to meet a range of needs and purposes. A balcony, with its stainless steel rail completes the end of the mezzanine floor beautifully and we can't wait to present Romeo and Juliette!

The mezzanine floor extension now completed		Stainless steel balcony rail and trim looks beautiful.
A well equipped physio room complements our provision.		A range of physio balls meets the needs of our students.
... and decorated to make the space bright and colourful.		Instructions for one of the treatments is displayed on the walls for students to follow.
A new parent welcome area has been developed.		Upstairs on the mezzanine floor
Currently being used as music room, yet has many uses.		Opening onto the balcony. Cinema club go-ers often sit up here.
Staircase with handrails both sides to provide support for our students		A wheelchair platform folds neatly away until required.
The staircase has a shallow 'fall' and deep steps to make ascent and descent easier.

Our first video output was posted onto YouTube this evening. Watch it here:

Read more about the video as reported in an earlier article.