On Wednesday we began to create our presentations in groups and we also built our innovation models. We needed to develop the coding on SPIKE and we conducted further research to help us with our presentations for the end of the week.
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.
In Science Year 1 have been looking at Seasonal Change.
We went for a walk to see how our surroundings were changing.
There were lots of flowers, daisies, leaves on the trees and insects.
We compared what we saw in Summer with Spring.
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.
Once again, the children of Harton Primary School have blown the judges of the Primary Engineer Leaders Award away with their innovative ideas to answer the question ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’ Over 30 children from our school were shortlisted for the final round of judging and Bonnie was awarded winner of the north east of England! She had her award presented to her at Sunderland University. We are incredibly proud of all of the children who took part and can’t wait to see what ideas they come up with next year!
The Shields Gazette wrote an article about the fantastic achievements of our pupils in this competition over the past few years.
Year 5 pupils shortlisted.
Year 4 pupils shortlisted.
Year 6 pupils shortlisted.
Bonnie – Y4 winner for north east England
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.
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
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!
Today we were ‘Lego Engineers’. We designed and created our own Lego models. Our teachers have been really impressed with our teamwork skills such as sharing, discussing and compromising, We have had so much fun during our school STEM week!!!!
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!
