Year 5 Taster Days in Design and Technology

This week is a busy week of creating mice from a flat nets. Cut out by our laser cutter, these mouse nets are then rendered by the year 5 students. Each student had the challenge of trying to make their mouse look the furriest and then assemble it into a cute 3D mouse. They were very creative making accessories for their mice to make them more individual.

              

AimHigher Engineering trip to Edinburgh University

During the last week of June I joined four Year 10 students on a three day trip to Edinburgh University. The activities included soldering and testing a circuit board for an electronic game, designing chemical rockets and going to a lecture by the man who invented the worlds smallest tv screen.

Left to right: Group photo after the Ghost Tour of Edinburgh, Deanna and Jessie working in their team and Team Moorside.

Soldering circuit boards and Deanna is in control of her team's design for the Pot Noodle Challenge.



I didn't manage to film the best ones  but it here is a not so successful chemical rocket!

 


Rocket testing on the Peffermill Playing fields (sophisticated staff design pictured on the left!)