Check out what the Harton Primary Puzzlers have been doing this week for the Lego League, written by Daniel and Daniel.
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Year 3 have been working hard conducting different investigations in Science Club. Last week, the children had a great time looking at a chemical reaction between bicarbonate of soda and vinegar (we even added food colouring just for fun). What will we be doing this week?
The first activity of the new Harton Primary Puzzlers was a trip to The Word to do some robot programming tasks – including tasks on the new City Shaper mat and missions.
We had to first make a robot move in particular ways, with ended up with a robot dance off.
Then, after lunch, we started work on the challenge mat. 2 groups worked on making the robot take some brick to certain areas of the mat, leave them there and come back to home base. Another group worked on getting the robot to drive to and up a ramp, and if possible raise 2 flags.
Check out this video of their last run:
Great start to the table, now to work on more of the missions.
This week we pushed ourselves to both animate and add voices and sound effects. We spend half the session animating a quick interaction between characters (using ‘I Can Animate’), then used iMovie to record our voices and had a quick play with the music and sound effects.
As a reward for all their hard work this year, our Year 5 mini police were treated to a visit from the police dogs section hosted by Laygate Primary School on Wednesday this week. The children got to meet the dogs and their handlers, and heard about all the interesting work they do. They were shown demonstrations of some of the training exercises undertaken by the dogs, and watched the dogs carry out a mock search on the school field. The children loved meeting the dogs, and as always they were brilliant ambassadors for Harton!
In our second week of Stop-Motion club, we made videos of Lego models, but with a twist. These model looked like they were building themselves – which was quite difficult.
Some of the children experimented with these videos, using their hands to cover or make models disappear.
Keep an eye out for future videos from the group.
All of Year 3 have had so much fun planting all of our hearty vegetables from Beamish Hall! We cannot wait for them to grow so we can pick them!
On the Friday before half term, Year-6 children visited the City Campus of Northumbria University in Newcastle. While we were there, the children took part in a number of activities: an engineering task; a team investigation-puzzle; a sporting activity (dodgeball); and a guided tour of the campus. They met and worked with student ambassadors, who are current university students, and were able to ask them lots of questions and get a taste for what university life is like.
The Puzzlers are raising money for their trip to the national Lego League competition. They have designed 8 different badges and are planning on selling them for 50p each, to go towards the flights and hotel for the event.
So the children have started cutting and pressing their badges on a lunchtime. Only about 500 left to go!
For our last session before Christmas, and before the stress of practising continues, we enjoyed an after school movie night, celebrating our win at the regional competition.The Puzzlers were comfy on cushions with popcorn and warm chocolates with marshmallows and whipped cream while they watched the Muppets Christmas Carol.
