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Reception Class newsletter Term 2

Posted by Mrs C Mann at Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Snow Day Friday 1st February 2019

School is closed today due to the snow making travelling difficult. However learning shouldn't stop. Look at the suggestions that your teachers have made for you on the 'Snow Day' page of the website. Have fun.

Mr Browne took some photos of the snow lying around school at the weekend.

Newsletter 10th January 2019

'First Lego League' Robotics competition January 11th 2019

Congratulations to the team of budding engineers and space scientists who went to the tournament at Winchester Science Centre on Friday. The 'Intergalactic Space Nuggets' competed against 18 teams and were the only primary school team - the competition is open to teams of up to 10 students aged 9 to 16. They had to take part in 4 main areas: Robot design, Research, Team work (Core Values) and using their robot to complete various tasks. The team had a fantastic day, with time to explore all the hands on science exhibits and watch a planetarium show, as well as showing off all their skills and knowledge.
This years theme was 'Into Orbit' and the team had had to research an idea of how to make long distance space travel better for astronauts and presented their findings to a panel of judges. The judges loved their idea of growing lab-grown 'meat' in space so the astronauts can eat chicken nuggets in space!
After a tense first two rounds of running the robo…

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