The children are learning about materials and how their properties are suitable to different uses. Today, the children built bridges out of different materials and tested their strength to see how many books they could hold. The children hypothesised that wood would be the strongest and tissue paper the weakest. The cardboard bridge held the most books and so did the wooden bridge (with some slight alterations).
Eastbrook School is an Ofsted rated Good, all-through school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and is part of the Barking Abbey family. Founded in 1933, Eastbrook has a well-established history of serving the local community, with many generations of families attending as students and even joining as staff. The primary school opened in 2016 and is growing in size year on year. The secondary school transferred into new, state of the art buildings in 2017, benefiting from purpose-built specialist learning environments with industry level resources and outstanding access to green outdoor spaces.
Eastbrook is a thriving and growing community school, welcoming students from a broad range of backgrounds, culturally, economically and in terms of need.
