My grandad dad Popsie, took me across to Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth on the Gosport Ferry. Then we went up the Spinnaker Tower in a really fast lift.

Learning opportunities / discussions about:

• different types of vessels (a vessel is something that goes on water)
  • naval ships / aircraft carriers
  • historic ships like HMS Victory
  • ferries, small ones like the Gosport Ferry we went on today, larger ones like the IOW car ferry and really big ones like the Brittany Cross Channel ferries
  • luxury yachts
  • sailing boats
• the army and navy in general
• we watched the hovercraft zoom across from Ryde. Last year my grandad took me on the hovercraft so it was fun to watch it from above.
• solar panels and their uses
• we watched some trains come and go
• I walked, well danced, across the glass floor
• Facts about the Spinnaker Tower:
  • the high speed lift rises 100 meters in 28 seconds
  • it was built in 2005, that means it is 20 years old this year
  • in high winds, the Tower can flex up approximately 150mm
  • there are 120 windows in the tower.