The last couple of weeks have seen our children involved in some fabulous learning programmes that they normally wouldn't get the chance to experience. Half the class have worked with small robots and worked right from setting up the robot through to creating a dance / performance using the robot and making it 'dance' in time to a piece of music. The routines created will be entered into a competition called Robocup next term. There has been plenty of opportunity to explore problem solving, maths application, time management, team work and much more.
The other half of the class have had the opportunity to explore hard metals such as pewter, copper, and aluminium as well as softer materials like clay and fimo. They have designed and then carried out the making of necklaces, key rings and badges. They have used tools ranging from a drill press, to files to a kiln. Skills such as persistence, listening, problem solving, design technique and tool use have all been developed.
A big thank you to Sally and Colin for working with the children and teaching them these new skills and processes.
In other news, it's back to normal in the class this week. We continue looking into how we can help the refugees and link it to Social Sciences and persuasive writing. We will finalise some of our findings around camp and continue to look at strategies for solving problems with decimals, fractions and percentages.
Later in the week, children should have posted a reflection around their learning in tech and included some photos the share their learning.
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