This week Year 1 identified the hot air balloon as the first successful flying machine and explained that it uses hot air to lift into the sky.

They learnt that the Montgolfier brothers designed and made the hot air balloon, and that they tested it with a sheep, a duck and a rooster as the first passengers. We acted out the first flight with some of us pretending to be the animals and everyone else pretending to be ‘reporters’ writing about the event.