Last week, the whole of year 8 in XP and XP East had an absolute treat when an expert came to talk to us! The expert was Dr John Hart from Sheffield Hallam University and he came in (virtually) to tell us all about his research in using knowledge of forces and physics to help optimise performance in sport.
This was all to help with the current year 8 STEAM expedition ‘Flying High’ where students are grappling with the question: ‘How can we use STEAM to optimise participation and performance in mixed gender sport?’
We got to learn from Dr John all about how to use engineering and maths go make a bike go faster, a sledge slide easier and to make a frisbee can fly!
Its great to see all 100 kids engaging so well, respecting and listening beautifully to our expert and showing him what XP is all about! From all the fascinating questions that were being asked at the end, I definitely know we have some budding scientists and engineers in this awesome year group! I’m sure the year 8s will agree that it was so cool, so interesting and I’m sure we were left feeling the same as Rhys G who said at the end: “When can I come to University?”
Set your goals and Fly High!