Seadream Rocketry – Reach for the sky
Seadream Rocketry provides hands-on, curriculum-linked workshops for primary schools and community clubs, introducing pupils to the science of flight through practical investigation and experimentation. Using a portable wind tunnel, real wing profiles, foils, and rocket models, pupils explore how lift and thrust are generated, and how design choices affect flight performance.
The workshops directly support the National Curriculum for Science by helping pupils to:
- Develop working scientifically skills, including observing, predicting, testing, recording and discussing results.
- Understand key concepts in Forces, including air resistance, thrust, gravity, and how shape and angle influence flight.
- Apply knowledge of materials and their properties through testing wings and rockets of different designs.
- Use scientific vocabulary accurately when explaining observations.
The programme also supports Design and Technology outcomes by encouraging pupils to:
- Investigate how design choices affect performance.
- Test, evaluate and improve simple models.
- Solve problems through practical experimentation.
Cross-curricular links with Mathematics are embedded through measuring angles, timing flights, and comparing outcomes, while Computing is supported through logical thinking, sequencing steps, and problem-solving during rocket design challenges.
By linking real-world aerospace and rocketry contexts to curriculum learning, Seadream Rocketry enhances engagement while helping pupils see how classroom science connects to future study and careers in aviation and aerospace.
Get in touch if you would like to be considered for a free workshop place! jjackson@seadreameducation.com
