STUDENTS at Lakelands Primary School had to put their thinking caps on ice on Monday in a school-wide chemical experiment.
All the children made guesses on how long a castle made of large iceblocks would take to melt.
The ice block castle was put together at 9.30 on Monday morning with children from all of the classes bringing a large ice block from home to add to the castle.
The castle took 42 hours and 35 minutes to melt and the three children with the nearest guesses received prizes from National Geographic.
The closest prediction and winner of the main prize was Noah Minorgan in year three, who predicted 42 hours and 40 minutes.
Second place went to Elena Candido-Herbert in year three, with a prediction of 43 hours and third place went to Chase McQueen in year five, who predicted 40 hours and 50 minutes.
Teacher Tracy Hill said the experiment helped to teach students about the solid, liquid and gas phases of matter.
“It brought the whole school community together and engaged them in chemical science, it even brought parents into the school,” she said.
Guesses from the children ranged from five seconds to a hundred million days.
