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Hard hats, computer screens and spanners

The big bubbling bucket is celebrating International Women in Engineering Day. Today’s challenges involve Tim creating some wonderfully interesting sound effects when Sam’s story about pancakes, toads and foxes comes alive in Act It Out. Afterwards, why is there a packet of cheese and onion crisps in a dragon’s lair? Well, that’s one of Sam’s answers in another thrilling game of Mission Memory.


Joke: What do you call a magic dog?


Answer: A labracadabrador!


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