E25 STEAM Fieldwork: Tuesday 4th June 2019 (7:45am start and 5pm finish)

By J Townson14th May 2019

E25 will be on fieldwork on Tuesday 4th June. 

Please make arrangements for your child to arrive at school no later than 7:45am and be collected around 5pm.  

The fieldwork arrangements are as follows:

  • All students to arrive at school by 7:45am for a prompt departure at 8am.
  • Students will need to bring a packed lunch and bottle of water (no glass bottles or fizzy drinks or sweets.)
  • Please bring any prescribed medication required, clearly labelled in a plastic bag or envelope with your child’s name and required dosage.  This includes travel sickness tablets where necessary as we will be travelling via coach for approximately 2 hours.
  • Sensible clothing, coat and shoes need to be worn (we will be outside for part of the day)
  • Students will return to school at approximately 5pm – although we will post updates on the website and social media.
  • If any parents would like to know the destination of our fieldwork or have any questions, please contact me at [email protected]

Many thanks for your support.

Final Product Progress: High Voltage

By J Smith13th May 2019

8/E24 Have been working hard this week building their final products. We have used a number of new tools and equipment in our brand new building. As a crew we need to have all work completed by Thursday 16th of May. If any students have any game work unfinished we will be running a product lab in extended study for everyone to get caught up.

STEAM Expert visit by Tapton Sixth Form students who built their own satellite!

By J Townson5th May 2019

During our current STEAM expedition E25 were fortunate to meet three students from Tapton School in Sheffield who have built their own satellite!  Emily, Emma and Sam visited us as experts for Case Study 1 of our Escape Earth expedition, as we have been looking at the structure of the universe, galaxies and our solar system.

In addition to their A Level studies at Tapton, our experts have taken part in a six month engineering project, run under the Engineering Education Scheme (EES) run by EDT and supported by an electronics company called ARM.  They were given a microprocessor and a £200 budget, which they decided to use to build and program a small satellite.  They had strict parameters to fit within and had to create something which would be viable in space.  This took a great deal of planning, problem solving and research, as well as using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, using a 3D printer for 19 hours during their residential at Sheffield Hallam University and showcasing their work at a Science Fair to industry experts.  

7 Pioneer HUMAN Extended Study Reminder

By H Hickson29th April 2019

A reminder to 7Pioneer that they have Extended Study to complete. This was set on Friday and it is to complete the Learning Target 4 assessment.

It is due Friday 3rd May – session 1. 

Some students have already completed this, here’s a reminder to the students who still have this work outstanding:

Fin

Charlotte

Jacob

Alice

Woody

Torran

Tom

Aaron

Dylan S

Dylan A

Junia

Bob

Jess

If you need any help or have any questions, email me or find me at school – I’m happy to help!

I am also on duty on Wednesday night at extended study and Miss Mitchell will be there on Thursday so we can offer help then too.

7Pioneer’s Week in HUMAN

By H Hickson28th April 2019

We’ve had a fantastic week in Hums, yet again the students worked their socks off! We’ve been focusing on explaining why some countries have lower development levels. We looked at environmental reasons such as climate as well as economic and historical reasons such as colonialism. This was linked to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)  which has been our case study in exploring low development levels and modern day slavery. We’ve being learning about the social, economic, environmental and political factors of the DRC and applied our knowledge of the causes of low development to explain why the DRC has low development levels. The students then spent two lessons planning their answers before writing their Learning Target 4 assessment on Friday. As you can see a superb level of focus and independent work from the students – I was so proud of all the students as they displayed our HOWLs to such a high standard.

There’s only 3 weeks left of our Stand Up expedition – but we can’t start winding down, we’ve got to wind up! There’s so much still ahead of us, our product and the presentation of learning. An exciting couple of weeks are still in store for us.

E24 Final Product Lab

By J Smith24th April 2019

E24 have started their new final product 

For the final product of ‘High Voltage’ expedition the students will be building and displaying battery powered series circuit games that will be given and left a local primary school for indoor lunch groups. The building of the products will take place in STEAM product lab sessions. The presentation of learning will also take place at the primary school as students will explain their product and build design in terms of circuits, current, voltage. 

 

 

Advance notice: E25 Fieldwork on Tuesday 4th June 2019 (7:45am start and 5pm finish)

By J Townson17th April 2019

E25 are well into Case Study 1 of our new STEAM expedition Escape Earth now and we are already looking ahead to our next fieldwork activity.  This will be on Tuesday 4th June. 

Please make arrangements for your child to arrive at school no later than 7:45am and be collected around 5pm.  

The arrangements are as follows:

  • All students to arrive at school by 7:45am for a prompt departure at 8am.
  • Students will need to bring a packed lunch and bottle of water (no glass bottles or fizzy drinks or sweets.)
  • Please bring any prescribed medication required, clearly labelled in a plastic bag or envelope with your child’s name and required dosage.  This includes travel sickness tablets where necessary as we will be travelling via coach for approximately 2 hours.
  • Sensible clothing, coat and shoes need to be worn (we will be outside for part of the day)
  • Students will return to school at approximately 5pm – although we will post updates on the website and social media.
  • If any parents would like to know the destination of our fieldwork or have any questions, please contact me at [email protected]

Many thanks for your support.