From Cow to Carton- Y2M visit Embleton Hall Dairies.

28th June 2023P Mullea

Y2M were one of the lucky winners of a competition to design a milkshake, with Holly T creating a fantastic design. As our prize, we go to visit Embleton Hall Dairy Farm to find out how milk gets from the cow to the cartons we drink every day in school. We had a session with Animal Encounters, a tour of the farm’s fields and cow sheds to complete an activity trail, saw the milking robots milking cows, visited the nursery to see the calves and visited the dairy’s production plant to see the milk getting put into cartons! We had such an amazing day and learnt so much.

Year 5&6 STEM Week Competition Day!

19th June 2023L Forster

After a week of work, the children have competed in their STEM week competition. They delivered their presentations to a panel of judges – including the Economic Inclusion and Career Development Coordinator for South Tyneside, a representative from the National Centre for Computing Education and the deputy head, Mr Donnelly. The children came back from presentations full of energy and enthusiasm. Their ideas got feedback such as ‘that’ll be tough to top’ and ‘this could work in the school yard to create energy’.

They have also took part in 3 robot games – which involved running their code to complete as many tasks as possible to score the highest amount of points. There have been some jumping with excitement and some hands covering faces in disappointment – but with some amendments and improvements, fun was had by all.

The semi-finals of the robot game took place in the afternoon (after an impromptu quarter finals because of a 7-way tie for 4th place), with the 6 top scoring teams competing in a knock out. The top 3 teams went through to the finals to compete for the robot game trophy.

To end the day, the children enjoyed the trophy ceremony. Each of the winning teams received a trophy and were celebrated by their peers in the sports hall.

The winners were:

Robot Design – Brick-otatoes (6F)

Core Values – Game Changers (6T)

Innovation Project – Brainiacs (6A)

Judges’ Award – Super Septuplets (6A)

Robot Game – Rotten Robots (6T)

Champions Awards (and overall winner of the week) – Energetic Energy (5L)

Based on the output of work, dedication to coding and overall enthusiasm from the children this week, the staff would like to think that STEM week was a roaring success!

 

STEM Week – Year 5 – Day 2

13th June 2023S Lovatt

Yesterday we built all of the models we needed for the robot game and did some research into different types of energy, and today we started coding and planning our invention!

In our teams, we chose which missions we would like to complete and worked together to code the robot to make it move and turn where we wanted it to go. We even built some attachments for the robot to make it easier to lift, push and pull different mechanisms to achieve the missions.

We also worked in our groups to think about our innovation project – what different ways can we make renewable energy? We have some fantastic ideas already which we will be developing over the next couple of days.

STEM Week Year 6 – Day 2

13th June 2023C Allen

Tuesday was the second day of our Lego Challenge STEM Week. Each class was split into 4 teams. The first task was to come up with a team name – some were unusual to say the least! Then it was time to code the robot to carry out tasks on the models which were built yesterday. There was also an innovation project to start in which a sustainable energy invention was designed.

The children were busy all day, and even though it was very noisy, there was some amazing STEM work taking place.

STEM Week – Day 1 in Year 6

12th June 2023D Fawkes

This morning we learned about renewable energy and hydroelectric stations that generate electricity through moving water. We then built a range of models before conducting our research on the energy of the model we had built.

This afternoon we learned about affordable energy and how electricity is transferred to network grids before being distributed to customers before building models linked to this such as an oil platform model, fuel tank model, hybrid car and ramp model, a power plant and a smart grid.

We have had a great first day and have shown excellent collaborative working skills.

STEM week Y5 Day 1

12th June 2023G Booth

Today, we have been building models for our Lego League robot table. We built a high five, an energy storage, a dinosaur, a power plant, a water dam, an oil platform, a car, a wind turbine, a toy factory and an oil truck. It was hard, and a few mistakes were made, but when we found it difficult we didn’t give up even when some of us had to start all over again. Some of us even finished quick enough to start our research on energy! But, that’s mainly for tomorrow, along with coding. The four energy sources we are doing today are: yellow (which consists of oil platform, oil truck, and car); orange (which consists of dinosaur, power plant and high five); blue (which consists of water dam, toy factory and water storage) and finally white (which consists of storage, wind turbine and tv).

We are looking forward to tomorrow where we will be researching more energy sources and we will begin coding our robot.

By Maizie W Y5B

 

STEM Finale in Year 4

9th June 2023R Errington

Year 4 loved sharing their model and project ideas with other children from year 4 as well as years 2 and 3. It was very interesting to find out about other consumption models that different groups had designed and made. We then earned a well-deserved treat of making our own medals!

 

STEM Week in Year 2 – Day 5

9th June 2023H Langley

Today we prepared for our Team Event. We thought about what questions people may ask us e.g. Why did you create your model. How did you use the core values? How does the poster show your team journey. We worked as a team so that we were all confident in sharing our learning and celebrating our success. The Event went really well and everyone was impressed with our innovative ideas.

We were extremely happy to receive our well deserved ‘build your own’ medal, lanyard and certificate.

Well done Year 2!