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What can we do

Making Bridges.

2 bridges at Chirk: an aqueduct in front a viaduct behind

Why do the bridges at Chirk have arches?

Try this experiment.

You need:
2 shoeboxes
Plasticine
Toy wooden bricks
Corrugated cardboard


Put two shoeboxes 15cm apart. Make a 'bridge' from a flat piece of plasticine and use it to span the gap between the shoeboxes. Count how many wooden bricks you can pile on the bridge before it starts to sag.


Then rebuild your 'bridge' but this time put arches of corrugated cardboard underneath the plasticine. See how many wooden bricks you can pile on the bridge until it starts to sag.

How Many Eggs Do You Eat A Day?

Eggs are very useful. They are in lots of the food you eat - biscuits and cakes and sometimes pies and sweets. Draw a picture of each type of food you eat in one day. Colour the food yellow if it had egg in it.

Print The Illustrations & Colour Them In.

Click on these buttons, wait for the picture to appear in the new window, then press the print button. When it has finished printing close the window.

At Chirk



There is a footpath through the tunnel.

Be careful. Make sure you take an adult with you.

Take a torch, it is very dark.

Can you see the light at the other end?



Walk over the viaduct.

Keep away from the water and hold on to the railing. It's a long way down.

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