Winners!!!!

Room 3 took a fun photo of themselves celebrating our use of Banqer this year, which is an online financial literacy resource. As well as having our own online bank accounts, we've used the resource to design and build our own malls on Minecraft. We entered the photo in to a competition and today we found out we won one of the prizes. Go Room 3. We can't wait to see what we will get in our Banqer Auction prize pack. Here's our winning photos.

Edisons

For inquiry this term we have been discovering how robots work. We have been programming the Edison robots to do all sorts of cool things like driving forwards and backwards, turning, and avoiding obstacles. Yesterday we built mazes and then programmed Edison to avoid obstacles. We had to see if he could get to the end of our maze without getting stuck. There were some very imaginative mazes built out of everything from glue sticks to books and it was great to see each group testing their maze and making changes where needed.

Drama Time

Room 3 and 4 have been doing drama together every second week. We play lots of fun warm-up games that help us practice movement, facial expressions and body language. Last week we worked in groups to create an advert for a piece of classroom equipment. It was hilarious watching everyone's 'adverts'. The most persuasive group were Aidan, Oliver, Cohen and Finn who's pencil case could be all sorts of amazing things!

STEAM Activities

This term Room 3 are going to be completing STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and maths) challenges. Our first challenge was to create a catapult that would propel a marshmallow across the room. It was great to see groups making changes to their catapults in between rounds to make their catapult work better! Our second challenge was to make a waterslide out of cardboard and a range of other materials. The rules were it couldn't leak, had to had a tower of 25cm high, a ladder and the slide couldn't drop straight down. Two teams were successful!!