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!

STEM Week in Year 2 – Day 4

8th June 2023Rachel Wright

Today we used coding to make either the motor or light function on our models and tested the programmes to ensure the code did what we wanted it to do.

Then, we worked together with our teams to create a poster to show our learning journey this week. We needed to make sure we including the headings explore, create, test, share, core values and team journey. We each completed a section and put them together to make visual appealing posters about our teams ideas and creations. Team work really does make the dream work!

Using innovation and teamwork

8th June 2023R Errington

We built on yesterday’s work to test out our team models and identify any problems. We then shared ideas to see if we could solve them. It was important to collaborate and listen carefully to each other. This also applied to our coding. We then started working on our team posters to tell other teams about our idea and the journey our team has gone on this week. We can’t wait to share them tomorrow! Check out some of our completed models.

 

 

Sessions 7 and 8 in year 1

8th June 2023Charlotte Kirkham

Today we have been looking at electric cars and future energy.

We looked at electric cars and talked about how they get charged and work. We then built different electric vehicles and a ramp that would hold the electric car.

We then talked about renewable energy and how this could help us in the future. The children came up with some outstanding ideas.