STEM Week 2024.
We had a great time yesterday with SmartSTEM team. We were learning about engineering and renewable energy and looking at wind turbines. We were set the challenge of building our own wind turbine models with only 1 paper plate, a newspaper and a strip of sellotape. The children worked really hard in their teams to build their turbines.
Unfortunately only 3 of the groups kept their models to bring back to the class. 😥
The winning design is the wind turbine in the middle of the photo. 
The Ada Scotland Festival is on this week and our class enjoyed taking part in the first live assembly on “Tech for Sport”. We found out about all the ways technology is used in sport from designs in clothing and foot ware to helping sports people improve their performance and to things like goal line technology and even VAR.
We then designed our own sports ware with some tech devices built in.
Outside today we had an amazing time searching for minibeasts. We started off by playing a game to name as many mini beasts as we knew. I am sure you agree we came up with quite a list.
We then went out and investigated the area to find where the minibeasts hung out. Lots were found hiding in trees and many of us thought they were there to shelter from the rain.
After having a talk together about what kind of beasts we saw ( a lot of slugs and snails today, we concluded they must like the rain) we worked in pairs to collect a mini beast to study and observe.
There were lots of incredible discussions on how they moved and how their bodies were patterned as everyone worked excitedly in the rain.
Finally we drew diagrams and labelled the most important features we noticed about our mini beasts.
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