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Pelynt Primary Academy   Week ending Friday 15th March


Posted 17/03/2024
by Helen Fitzsimmons


Hello everyone!

We had a lovely day on Monday in our outside area, finding tadpoles and frogspawn. We enjoyed learning about different habitats, as well as the plants and animals that thrive in and around a pond. We also learnt about the life cycle of a frog.

This week, we have continued our learning about Amelia Earhart. In English, we began writing a biography. We have also made models of ‘The Canary’, the plane that Amelia Earhart flew. We have made these out of wood, and have also painted them with our own designs. 

In maths this week, year 1 have been measuring length, using centimetres and metres, while year 2 have been investigating odd and even numbers. 

Thank you for all of your kind donations to comic relief this week.

Have a lovely weekend!

From the class 2 team.

 


Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy   Week ending 15.03.24


Posted 17/03/2024
by David Parry

A day in the life of a farm vet.

A day in the life of a farm vet was just one activity the children participated in during our Science Week.

Talland Class have had so much fun learning about many aspects of science which included AI intelligence, robots, insects and animals. It was fabulous to see the children's science skills - exploration, prediction, evaluation, explanation - being used and enhanced throughout the week. The children have been amazing!

best wishes,

Mr Parry, Mrs Swabey and the Talland Class team (Mrs Walters and Ms Rowlands)


This week's jokes:

How do you cut the sea in half?
 With a 'sea-saw'!

Why was the bee's hair sticky?  ...because he used a honey-comb!



 

 


Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy   Want to try online homework?


Posted 16/03/2024
by Sara Mckillop

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Pelynt Primary Academy   Week Ending Friday 15th March 2024


Posted 16/03/2024
by Joanna Rickard

What an amazing week of little scientists celebrating British Science Week 2024! 

We started the week by discussing what we thought Science may be about and the children had some thoughtful ideas such as being able to make things or mix potions! Some of children had not heard of the word Science and that is totally understandable at their young ageScience at this age is learning about the things that are around us and noticing change, and we link this in to our Understanding the World area of learning.

We have been talking about the four Seasons and so we challenged the children to spot the changes that happen over the course of a year. We used pictures to place into the correct season as a fun way of recognising these changes. 
 

The weather was something the children found easy to recognise as it is something we talk about frequentlywe are always on the lookout for a rainbow! We took this in to our first experiment of the week to grow our own rainbows!
We
have also experimented with bicarbonate soda and vinegar to make fizzy colours, used special paper and a water spray bottle for colour diffusing our names, and even made raisins dance in fizzy water!  The children have all thoroughly enjoyed the variety of experiments this week, and it’s been lovely to see and hear their enthusiasm.
 

As from Mrs Oliver’s newsletter, you will have received the letter regarding the school's outbreak of Norovirus. We would like to reassure you that extra precautions are in place to minimise the spread of the virus. If you have any concerns, then please contact us at Pre-School.  

Thank you for any donations that were made to Comic Relief on Friday. The link is still live via the Newsletter for anyone still wanting to donate 

Please can we ask that no additional toys are sent in with your child unless it is their show and tell allocated day. It reduces upset from breakages or other children wanting to use the toy also.  We understand a couple of younger children have a comfort teddy they bring along, and this is still absolutely fine.   

Letters will have started to come out to those of you with children who have changes to their session days/timesIf you have any queries relating to the changes, please do email the preschool email preschool@pelyntprimary.co.uk 

Parent consultations are the week beginning Monday 25th March - Please do book a slot if you feel you would like an informal meeting with Mrs Rickard or Mrs Gravener about your child.

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend. 

The Pre-School Team.  

 


Pelynt Primary Academy   Week ending 15th March 2024


Posted 16/03/2024
by Suzanne Porter

This week has been a busy one with lots of important learning taking place across the week.  

Year 5 children went to a ‘Life Skills’ event at Liskeard fire station where they learnt lifesaving information from various emergency services and companies like GWR. It was great to hear that some of the children went home and taught their adults some of skills learnt like CPR.

During our outdoor learning time, the children learnt about pond life. We noticed frogs, tadpoles and newts in our pond at school and learnt the life cycles and animal groups of these creatures. We made our own wood slice life cycles which we will give to the younger classes once they are varnished. We noticed that the edges to our pond are quite open so we used other wood slices to carve a danger sign to warn others about it. We chiselled into the wood slices which we found particularly difficult. It made us wonder how ‘Hokusaiour artist focus at the moment made the detailed wooden print blocks all those years ago.  In our outdoor session, we also learnt about filtration and tried to improve the water quality of the pond as it is looking quite murky. In groups, the children made water filters using various natural resources that they found. There was a clear difference once the pond water had been through the children’s filters. They noted how the water still wouldn’t be safe to drink!

In PSHE, we continued our topic, ‘Healthy ME’.  The children learnt about exploitation, peer pressure and gangs. They learnt about what to do if they are in a situation where they are being made to do something they don’t want to do. They also learnt about, ‘Clever Never Goes,’ which helps children to recognise specific situations that are unsafe and gives them the tools to respond. This tied in well with year 5’s Life Skills trip to Liskeard Fire station.  

In our English lessons, the children planned a newspaper report about a natural disaster. They learnt about direct and indirect speech and wrote examples that could be used in their reports. Some children managed to change the levels of formality between the various witnesses and experts in their speech examples.

During our RE lesson, the children learnt about how Christians choose to live their lives. We learnt about various parables including the ‘Foolish Builder’. The children recreated this parable by attempting to build mini structures on various foundations. All children were able to explain that the different foundations they used represented Christians that followed Jesus’ teachings and those that did not.

During our geography lessons this week, the children had a physical geography focus. They learnt about tectonic plates, volcanoes and earthquakes and plotted the ring of fire on a world map. After learning about how buildings are built with special features in earthquake prevalent areas to try to reduce the impact of the quakes, the children designed their own buildings with similar features and tried to build these using spaghetti and marshmallows. They used a base of jelly as their foundations so it was great fun testing their buildings against an earthquake simulation! We got up to ‘8’ on our own Richter scale.

During our computing lesson this week, the children learnt how to create a database of data in Excel. They researched the changing temperatures in various countries across 20+ years to see if they could notice the effect of global warming. The children learnt how to calculate the total and the mean in their spreadsheet by typing in equations. They also learnt how to plot their findings into various styles of graph.

Mr Hewitt came in and worked with some of our gifted artists to add finishing touches to the school mural.

Homework has been set on Mathletics and Spelling Shed. Please also remember to read regularly and that we have Times Table Rockstar logins.

This half term, if the children would like to make a volcano to ‘erupt’ in school. We will be erupting any volcanoes made in these last 2 weeks of term so if they could be brought into school this coming week, that would be great.

Points to remember:

PE on Mondays and Wednesdays

 


Polruan Primary Academy  


Posted 16/03/2024
by Jane Wills

Spring 2

To complement our City life enquiry, we joined the National Trust for den building on Tuesday. This gave the children the opportunity to make meaningful links between their learning in Geography and History. We discussed how settlements have evolved over time locally and the importance of choosing these according to natural resources available. We will build on this further next week with our trip to Plymouth and The Box.

Swimming lessons are proving super popular. It has been great to watch how confidence and skills are developing. Many of the children are setting personal targets and work towards achieving these in their lessons; being able to float like a starfish, swim across the pool without flotation devices, improve leg action for greater speed.

Next week is busy. Monday afternoon Year 5-6 are at Fowey River Academy for football skills. Tuesday we are at The Box in Plymouth, Wednesday is swimming and Thursday some of the children are at Looe for a whole Trust Sports day. 

 


Polperro Primary Academy   Friday 15th March 2024


Posted 15/03/2024
by Alice Gibbings

We have covered a lot during our Wider Curriculum lessons this week! In Science, we learnt that a force is a push or pull, by exploring how we make a range of objects move. In Geography, we discovered there are three types of volcanoes; active, dormant and extinct. Can you remember what each of these mean? We also debated why living near a volcano may have its benefits and consequences. In DT, we explored a lever mechanism by creating mockups, which we will use when creating our own moveable posters - we can't wait! During our Computing lesson, we loved exploring how the micro:bit's work and planned for our volcano animations, which we will code next week! 

English this week has consisted of lots of story writing! We have been working hard to finish our Traction Man inspired adventure stories, and both myself and Mr H have been so impressed! Well done! 

In Maths, Year 2 have continued working hard measuring length and height this week. They have been measuring in metres and comparing measurements carefully. Year 3 have continued working on division, focussing on how we can flexibly partition numbers and divide with remainders. 

Congratulations to George, Anya and Heidi for achieving your 99 club badges this week! And a big well done to George and Nevaeh for being Landaviddy's People of the Week. 

Next week are Parent Consultations, and we are looking forward to meeting with you all.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you next week. 

Miss Gibbings, Mrs Phillips and Mr H

 


St Cleer Primary Academy   15th March


Posted 15/03/2024
by Jenifer Kite

 


Polperro Primary Academy   Talland's Class Blog 15.3.24


Posted 15/03/2024
by Ben Heasman-Langley

Taland's Blog 15.3.24

Happy Friday everyone! We hope you have had a fantastic week!

It's been busy in Talland!

Maths:
The year 4's have been learning about mixed numbers and improper fractions. Why not quiz them on what they are...
The year 5's have been rounding decimals to whole numbers and ordering and comparing them. 

English:
We've completed writing up our newspaper report about Oliver Twist now. Children have learnt lots of techniques to write their own successful newspaper report so we have just begun planning for their independent article: 'Workhouse Runaway'. I can't wait to read the finished article!

Music was great fun (as always) and it would appear that Talland have some talented children when it comes to playing the flute!

Well done to Thomas this week for being recognised for his creative homework. He must be really proud of himself - it was great! Good luck to the cross country runners' today!

I'm looking forward to talking to you all next week and telling you what little super stars you are raising!

That's all from us in Talland class this week.

We hope you have an amazing weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Mrs. Hodge. 



 


Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy  


Posted 15/03/2024
by Sara Mckillop

w/e 15.3.24

We have really Science week this week! The theme for Science week was 'Time'. 

We took part in several Live Lessons - one from 'TechSheCan' about how transport had changed over time and we looked at future jobs in Transport Technology, like designing driverless cars or rocket ships! We went Live to the farm to find out about how animals change over time and how our perceptions of farming have changed too. We also watched a BBC Live Lesson about Minibeasts who change over time - like caterpillars to butterflies - or creatures that live for hundreds of years and are absolutely everywhere - Tardigrades - and bugs who've been around since the big bang and would probably survive another one - cockroaches! Wow!

In Science / DT this week, we learned more about Pneumatics and were really excited to learn how to make a syringe rocket! We had them shooting all over the place, mainly at the teachers!

Finally, we ended the week with Red Nose Day. We dressed in our finest red outfits and wrote some amazing jokes! Check out our Padlet to read some - they'll definitely make you smile!



 


Wadebridge Primary Academy  


Posted 15/03/2024
by Sorrel Beckett

Spring 2 - Week 4 - Year 5 are keeping S.M.A.R.T! 

English

This week in English, the children performed an oral discussion. They gathered research based on the theme ‘Should exotic animals be kept as pets’, in pairs they looked closely at the positive and negative impacts. Next, they picked a side and navigated an oral debate. They were given sentence stems to support with how they could lead into their arguments. Finally, in pairs, they performed to the class. The purpose of this lesson was to allow the children the opportunity to gather information for their persuasive writing.

In the follow-on lesson; the children wrote persuasive texts arguing their side of the argument. They broke it down into 3 main arguments and used evidence and statistic to support. We then came back together at the class, where we modelled a conclusion for the children discussing the success criteria and its contents. Towards the end of the week, we moved onto setting descriptions, the children used the map from the story ‘Shark Caller’ as inspiration to write about their settings. Their aim was use to a range of stylistic devices to enhance their descriptions. As a result, they were then able to write a detailed recount of their own arrival on the Papua New Guinea island, detailing all they could see, hear, taste, touch and smell.

Maths

In Maths, the children continue with their perimeter and area learning journey. This week, we started to look at the perimeter of polygons and rectilinear shapes before moving onto the area. The children now know that the perimeter is the outside of the shape and the area is the inside.

The children were also able to articulate that for working out the area they needed to know their times tables! EEEEK. Please do continue to encourage your children to access TTRS at home, it is such a great tool in building your child’s fluency in recalling multiplication facts. Another great resources which myself and Mrs. Callister advocate is flash cards. They removed the pressures of speed and allow the children to really pinpoint to the facts that they do not know.   

Towards the end of the week, the children completed this term PUMA assessments which has a mixture of arithmetic and reasoning questions. This is where the children have the opportunity to show off all they have learnt across Spring Term.

Wider Curriculum

In Wider Curriculum this week we have been Scientists exploring FORCES. The children completed an investigation, answering the question ‘Does the mass of an object affect the force of gravity?’ – The children were given a range of balls all of a different mass, they dropped the balls from the same height, recording the speed in which they fell. “The heavier and bigger the object the bigger it’s gravitational pull” – Lochy 5B. During the lesson, the children also learnt lots of interesting information about gravity and its founder Sir Isaac Newton.

Next, the children explored Air resistance, completing another investigation with a parachute drop. The focus within these lessons was the children’s ability to observe, record and explain their findings in a conclusion.

Online Safety Visit

On Wednesday the children were lucky enough to have a visit from the local police who came to talk to them all about online safety! During the session, the children discussed the different kinds of apps and games that can accessed online, along with their age limits. It was interesting to see how many children access games that are above their age bracket. However, one of the key messages from the police was understanding that these games and apps will be used but it’s how to use them safely that’s important. The children were presented with the acronym  -

S – Stay safe

M – Don’t MEET up with strangers you have talked to online.

A – Think before ACCEPTING anyone online.

R – Not everyone is RELIABLE. They may not be who they seem to be.

T – TELL a responsible adult if you feel uncomfortable or worried.

This acronym is now displayed in the classroom for all to see!

It was also wonderful having these important messages presented by people from our local services with stories that link to our community. The children were then allowed to ask questions about online safety and their jobs as the police. The session was extremely informative and opened our eyes as teachers to the importance of keeping our children safe online.

As a whole, it was an exciting morning, especially when the children saw Mrs. Callister and Miss Beckett locked up in handcuffs! EEK!

Important Dates:

·      Parent’s evening – Tuesday 26th March / Wednesday 27th March 2024, please book your appointment on arbor.

·      Wednesday 20th March 2024 – Year 5 children will be performing their music piece to parents lead by our music man Tony at 2:40pm

 


Polperro Primary Academy  


Posted 15/03/2024
by Emily Randle

What a brilliant week we've had in Chaipel Class! We started off the week by finding out what house teams we're in. There are four houses: Chestnut, Willow, Oak and Ash who each have their own Captain and Vice Captain. Congratulations to Ava, Verity and myself who were all chosen to represent our houses as captains in Chaipel Class.

On Thursday, Y5 and Y6 were lucky enough to go down to Liskeard Fire Station for the afternoon. We learnt how to stay safe in different scenarios that we might come across. 
- ROSIE GRACE 

On Friday, we raised money for Comic Relief by dressing in 'mufti' and bringing in our best jokes. My favourite was       Jack G's which went like this:
Why do some cows travel in limousines?
Because they are moovie stars!  


In our learning, we have been working with fractions, decimals and percantages in Maths. In English, we have been studying the book The Midnight Fox and we are are going to be writing our own endings next week. - DAISY 

Congratulations to Rosie Grace and Martha for being Chaipel's People of the Week and to Joel and Ivy for getting their 99 Club badges. - ROSIE MAY 

That's all from us for another week!

Rosie G, Daisy, Rosie M and the rest of Chaipel Class.

 


Wadebridge Primary Academy  


Posted 15/03/2024
by Paula Reeve

Spring 2 - Week 4 - In the Navy!

On Wednesday, Year 6 were visited by two members of the Royal Navy. We learned about the purpose of the Navy which includes protecting our waters and shipping lanes around the world. They also provide aid and assistance to people who have experienced natural disasters. We completed two activities with them. The first, challenged the children to make a flare and the second to make a tower that had to be: taller that 6 foot, free standing and able to bear the weight of a ‘satellite’. The children demonstrated great team-work, resilience and perseverance when completing these challenges.

English
This week, the children have been applying the skills they have learned over the past unit of writing to write an ending to our class story ‘Darwin’s Dragons’. This includes using a variety of sentence types to keep their writing interesting and using parenthesis to add extra detail. Next week, they will be drawing upon the book to write their own fantasy fiction stories.

Maths
We have spent the past couple of weeks learning about statistics. The children have learned to interpret and draw: line graphs, dual bar charts and pie charts. We finished the unit by learning how to find the mean and how to find the total when given the mean. We’re now moving onto our next unit of learning which is Shape.

Geography
In our wider curriculum learning, we have been Geographers! We have compared and contrasted the physical features of Great Britain and the Galapagos Islands. We have also considered the impact that human activity is having on physical geography. We looked at the impact globally and then more specifically on the Galapagos Islands. We carried out an experiment with ice cubes that demonstrated that ice melting will cause sea temperatures to rise. We have also considered our carbon footprint and what we can do to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Reminders
For homework this week, children need to complete: Punctuating Speech (pages 56 & 57) in their SPaG books and Statistics (pages 82-87 ) in their maths books.

Best wishes,
The Year 6 Team

 


St Cleer Primary Academy   Learning Adventures in Preschool


Posted 15/03/2024
by Rebecca Whitty

 














Learning Adventures in Preschool 

This week we embarked on a marvellous exploration into the world of the letter D. D is for so many wonderful things, like dinosaurs, dog, dirty and even daddy. The children have loved learning this sound. The enjoy the rhyme ' Around the dinosaurs bottom, up his tall neck and down to his toes' They have had go at forming this during their free flow play.

We have also been honing our number recognition and fine motor skills this week through the magical world of colouring by numbers. With crayons and pencils in hand, the children eagerly identified numbers and carefully coloured each section according to the corresponding colour. It was incredible to witness their concentration and determination as they navigated through the activity, all while reinforcing their understanding of numbers and enhancing their fine motor skills.


As you have noticed our sandpit has been taken down and we have a brand new one! In the area where the sand pit used to be, is now going to become a dynamic gross motor space for the children to explore. The children will have the opportunity to develop their coordination, strength, and spatial awareness in a safe and stimulating environment. This week we had the football goal and scooter out. The children are already putting in requests.

We wish you all a lovely St Patricks day on Sunday. Join us again soon as we continue our journey of discovery, curiosity, and endless possibilities.

Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Whitty, Miss Ronald and Ellie :)





 


St Cleer Primary Academy   Life Skills


Posted 15/03/2024
by Thomas Hazlewood

Life Skills

We were really excited to attend the Junior Like Skills Workshops at Liskeard fire station on Thursday afternoon.  We didn't know what to expect but it was an action-packed afternoon full of really useful information and tips on how to stay safe in different situations.

When we got to the fire station we rotated around lots of different activities:
- Online safety
- How to catch a bus safely
- What to do if somebody is choking
- How to administer CPR - using the DR ABC acronym
- Staying safe on the roads
- How to make sure our passwords are secure
- Checking our homes for potential fire hazards
- Staying safe near railway lines

We all learned a lot - and enjoyed all of the different activities.  We also came away from it all with a lot of freebies!

A huge thank you to all of the organisations involved in putting on such an interactive session!

 


Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy   Week ending 15th March 2024


Posted 15/03/2024
by Joanna Morris

Science Week

The whole of Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy have been fortunate enough to spent time in Saltash Library participating in various science based talks and activities as part of national Science Week.

Year 6 listened to a talk based on nanotechnology and how this area of science is aiming to help diagnose cancers before they have a detrimental impact on the person’s health. We were able to look at synthetic skin and various data chips that were made via a nanomicroscope and nanolaser in a lab. We also leanrt about various Nobel Prize winner for thier work in science and nanotechnology imparticular. It has really got us all thinking about the tiny things in life and how they can have a huge impact!

 


Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy   Week ending 15th March 2024


Posted 15/03/2024
by Joanna Morris

Science Week

The whole of Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy have been fortunate enough to spent time in Saltash Library participating in various science based talks and activities as part of national Science Week.

Year 6 listened to a talk based on nanotechnology and how this area of science is aiming to help diagnose cancers before they have a detrimental impact on the person’s health. We were able to look at synthetic skin and various data chips that were made via a nanomicroscope and nanolaser in a lab. We also leanrt about various Nobel Prize winner for thier work in science and nanotechnology imparticular. It has really got us all thinking about the tiny things in life and how they can have a huge impact!

 


Looe Primary Academy  


Posted 15/03/2024
by Rebecca Hughes

Week 4 

What a wonderful week of learning we have had in foundation/year 1!

On Monday we started the week exploring Eid, we learnt about how Muslims celebrate Eid. We learnt about the yummy food and celebrations that take place and how some Muslim people fast. We learnt about the importance of praying to God for Muslim people. One of our pupils shared his experience of Eid and what it means to him.

It has also been Science week . We started Science week by cutting up three apples, we wanted to see what happened to natural things over time! We placed one apple in a pot with nothing else, one in oil and one in vinegar! WE predicted what might happen... we surprised today to find the part of the apple that was submerged in oil was REALLY brown and mushy! We loved also exploring other scientific experiments! 

In English this week the foundation and year 1 children have continued to use their skills and phonic knowledge to write their planned stories. The children have been given lots of time because they were so enthusiastic about finishing the story. They have all worked so hard with some amazing results!

In maths the foundation children have been working hard with numbers 8, 9 and 10. They have been recognising these numbers, sorting these numbers, and comparing them. They have been subitising and exploring the composition of these numbers.

The year 1 ‘s have been exploring place value to 50! This has been quite tricky, and we have been learning our ten times tables to help us. They have been exploring groups of tens and ‘some ‘  more like 43 being 4 groups of ten and 3 more.

In PSHE this week the children explored medicine sand how to be safe around them and what medicines do for us. In PE the children continued to perform their Arctic dance and ball skills with Ryan.

In Phonics all the children have been working so well in their groups. The children really are progressing very well.

The children have also been exploring spring; they have made daffodils, used play-dough to make plants, they have used funky fingers to complete spring pictures and sop much more!

Today was Red Nose Day and the children looked fab! Thank you for any donations!

Have a great weekend

Foundation /year 1 team.

 

 

 

 


Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy   Spectacular Science!


Posted 15/03/2024
by Katie Grinsted

Science Week

What an exciting week we’ve had taking part in Brunel’s science week. We started the week with an experiment involving skittles. We added water to a circle of skittles and watched carefully as the dye ran off the sweets to make a rainbow of colours. On Tuesday we took part in a live science event which focused on insects. We learnt all about the different parts of an insect’s body and how they grow and change. On Wednesday we planeted beans in a freezer bag with a wet paper towel. We can already see some tiny shoots creeping out of the bean seeds. On Thursday it was a trip to the library to take part in a science workshop. We explored moving robots, microscopes and even looked at how electricity works. The children have been so curious and questioning about the world around them. What a brilliant week!

 


Darite Primary Academy   Lego Champions!


Posted 15/03/2024
by Thomas Whipps

Lego Champions!

On Thursday, Miss Bawden and I had the pleasure of taking 9 children to RNAS Culdrose for the second day of the regional tournament of the First Lego League. You may, like me, have seen footage of day one on the BBC news on Wednesday and anticipation (and nerves) was high. The team -The Darite Virtual Pros - were up against 30 other teams on Thursday, and a total of 60 other teams over the two days, which included secondaries as well as primary aged pupils!

The competition was composed of two parts over the day; a presentation on a theme and coding a Lego robot to perform precise tasks. During both of these challenges, they were judged on their attitude, professionalism, teamwork and graciousness towards each other and the other teams.


Innovation Project

This year’s theme was "Masterpiece". The teams had to prepare a presentation on a project that they had been working on, detailing how they would use technology to bring a passion of theirs to a wider audience. the Darite team used all their diplomacy to decide to base their project on using 360-degree video to film their passion of cycling and then link it to the use of virtual reality to allow disabled people, the elderly and people who are unable to ride or have a bike to experience their love of the sport. They wrote letters to international companies for their help and support and worked hard to adapt and innovate their ideas. The judges were impressed with the project (and the song) along with their use of help beyond the school.

Robot Game

The second aspect of the competition was the “Robot Game”. This was a coding competition - the participants had to build and code a robot from a set number of Lego pieces to move around a mat, interacting with Lego obstacles in complex ways to score points. The children had all shown incredible amounts of dedication, voluntarily coming in for extra practise sessions before school, at lunchtimes and after school. The team were assigned the first slot of the day and there was an assembled crowd of judges, military personnel and other schools to watch the team try and score as many points as they could in the best of 3, two-and-a -half minute rounds. The children worked amazingly as a team to run the codes and adapt their robot on the fly. Their highest score was a huge 335 points. Tension was high across the day as the team (and teachers) watched the other scores come in but, in the end, no-one was able to top their score and, for the second year in a row, Darite were awarded the trophy for the “Robot Performance”!



Tension was high in the presentations at the end of the day. With such a high score in the coding, the team were in with a shot at winning the day. Everything was crossed as the final award approached. To the children's delight, their names were called to be awarded the Champion's Award for the highest overall score for the day. By winning the day, the team have brought home another trophy but more importantly, have earned a place to compete at the national finals in Harrogate, against all the other regional winners from across the whole of the UK.

We were so proud of their achievements, conduct and teamwork during the day. We can’t wait to see how they get on against the other regional winners in April.

 


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