Ask Year 2 and they’ll tell you he’s famous for his invention of waterproof fabric for clothes and waterproof coats that he named Mackintoshes. They also looked into his life history and how he became a scientist and inventor.
In science, the children were set a task similar to Charles Macintosh’s invention and were testing materials to find the best waterproof fabric to fix a hole in an umbrella. They carried out an experiment and tested various materials and found only two were resistant to the water.
