As part of our ‘Be the Best You Can Be’ programme, RISE (the construction company working on the development next to our school) came to visit The Rosary!  Representatives from various projects across London presented a KS2 Assembly where we were able to find out information including: what field they worked in (project management, architect, office manager etc…); how they got into their profession; what they particularly enjoyed about it and why; and what drawbacks (if any) there were.

Separate workshops were delivered for both the Year 5s and Year 6s where we got to wear our hard hats and high vis jackets to create the tallest (and most stable!) towers using either newspaper and sellotape or spaghetti and marshmallows.  Some of us had the opportunity to work on building 3D models with the architects.

A big thank you to RISE for sharing your expertise with us – we had lots of fun and it’s opened our eyes to a whole world of new career opportunities.

17 comments on “RISE visits Rosary!

  1. I enjoyed the visit from RISE and hope we could do it again.

  2. I agree with you on that Oliver.

  3. This was so exciting.

  4. I loved making towers out of marshmallows and spaghetti ?

  5. Charles Sedgwick says:

    That was awesome!

  6. My marshmallow tower went really well. ?

  7. Maxima Eagles says:

    It was awesome making structures out of… spaghetti and marshmallows!? I’m sure all of the other activities in the RISE workshop were equally fun, and it was cool to find out what was really going on in the building site next door. It is amazing to watch the progress that the builders make as the days fly by!?

  8. It was very fun doing the pasta and marshmallows. We had to make a tower with it and to make it not fall.

  9. I really enjoyed making a newspaper tower.

  10. The visit from RISE was really fun. I was making a tower out of news papers and sellotape with my team. I found it fun to wear a hard hat!??

  11. I really enjoyed doing the fun activities with them

  12. I loved the RISE workshop

  13. It was so awesome and fun?

  14. It was so awesome

  15. I enjoyed making the 3D building with paper! I hope they come again. Next time I would like to try the newspaper activity.

  16. When I did it I loved it so much it was so fun ?

  17. The people who have the yellow coats look like builders.

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