STUDENTS from Court Fields School in Wellington (pictured) were flying high after a trip to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton.

Youngsters from both Nurture groups, Sunstone and Citrine, attended the STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – workshop, which looked at the different materials used to make aircraft over the last 100 years.

The students were able to test materials such as wood, metal, fabric, carbon fibre, leather and honeycomb composite to see if they were flexible or stiff and rigid.

This tied in with what they had been learning about materials in their Science lessons.

They also tested how strong the materials were by standing on them.

They said: “The day was fantastic and it was great to be able to use the learning we had done in school to help us with the workshop activities.”