FUTURE giants of science gathered at Bourton's Cotswold School to celebrate a special anniversary.
The Station Road school held a Science, Industry and Technology Day to mark the first anniversary of its obtaining Specialist Science Status.
About 200 local primary school pupils joined the Cotswold School's year five students at the fun event where they did various activities, including making egg parachutes, virtual robots, rockets, kites, pop-up cards, spinners and iodine clocks.
Guest speakers came from Moreton's Fire Service College, Bristol University Chemistry Department and Greystone Farm.
The status enables the Cotswold School's science department to get government funding to improve science within the school.
It also allows the department to forge science links with local junior schools and the community and arrange activities for them.
The past year has seen the school invite speakers to the department, open a Science and Engineering Club, teach junior school pupils science, launch a GCSE astronomy learning environment, gain Oxbridge' places for two students, have two students awarded bronze and silver awards in the Chemistry Olympiad, host a science event for year seven students' parents and had teacher Bernie Major win The Earthwatch Teachers Award that earned him a trip to Iceland to investigate glacial changes.
Clare Skaife, 10, from Bourton Primary School and Phillip Cross, 10, from Stow Primary School are pictured with the rockets they made at the event.
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