Happy Christmas!

Wow! Beautiful hand sewn decorations! 

The children enjoyed designing their own Christmas decoration which they then made a template for. They used the template to cut their felt and then used thread to decorate. They all used blanket stitch around the edge before stuffing their decoration and attaching the ribbon. Many of the class found this activity very challenging, especially threading and re-threading  their needles! They were all very proud of their finished products. I am sure you will agree they are stunning!

We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

Computer Control Workshop Day

We have had a brilliant Computer Control Workshop day with Mr Kettle from STEMworks. With excellent teamwork, problem solving and programming skills we have built Lego robots and completed a series of challenges.

We started the morning thinking about how we use computers and how they work (inputs and outputs). We thought about definitions for what a robot is and how we use robotic things in our everyday lives. We then split into groups of 2’s and 3’s and made our 15-minute Lego EV3 robot.

Once our robots were built we were set a series of challenges. Each challenge was worth a different number of points. We were given time to write and test each program, and make any improvements and adjustments needed, before they were judged by Mr Kettle and we were awarded points. For some of the challenges we had to adapt our robot by building extra attachments and adding sensors. We had an awesome day and learnt so much about computer programming!