Our final science lesson involved learning about Charles Mackintosh, the Scottish inventor of the waterproof raincoats called ‘macs’. We also investigated which materials out of cotton, nylon, felt, swimming costume material and plastic would be the best materials. Plastic was definitely the best!

We would like to thank the South Shields company Barbour for kindly providing us with samples of their materials for their coats. We will take a look at them next half term.