LEGO challenge and the annual GFM awards

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Gosport Futures

ANY Early Years teacher will tell you the best way to stimulate young minds is to incorporate play into learning. It is this logic that has inspires a new GFM project working in partnership with LEGO. LEGO Education teaching resources are cross-curricular, helping our pupils develop invaluable problem-solving, collaboration and communication skills. We are part of a community brimming with inspiration, creativity, and hope for a stronger, more sustainable future. Our students use We:Do kits to build in their own school and share this at events such as LEGO League. Stephen Shaw is a LEGO Education Academy Certified Trainer. He is working across the GFM to help develop science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEM) subjects in a creative way. After two years training at their HQ in Denmark, Stephen now spends time with teachers and education specialists to deliver purposeful learning experiences using LEGO. “We have lots of lego in the GFM, including Mindstorms and SpikePrime and use this to help embed engineering habits of mind like adapting, problem-finding, creative problem solving, visualizing and improving. “No child will ever make the same thing and that’s what we love. Creativity is encouraged.”

LEGO challenge — you will need bricks!

1) Build a scene from your favourite movie or book. 2) Recreate a fact from history as a 3D model. 3) Design and build something; a place, an activity or a facility that your local community might benefit from. 4) What if you could build a better world? Where would you begin? What would you design? 5) Build a vehicle and a slope for it to freewheel down.

Questions:

A) What difference does the size of the wheels make on speed and distance travelled? B) What difference does the run-off surface make (eg carpet vs tiled flooring)? How could you self-propel the vehicle?

Mr Potter announces some of the winners of our annual awards.

Double delight for ‘lockdown legend’

OUR students hard work did not go unrecognised this year with our annual awards ceremony being beamed into living rooms via a YouTube production. The production featured both live and pre-recorded footage from headteachers and representatives. Awards included Progress in the Face of Adversity, Sporting Achievement, Best Community Contribution and Highest Attendance. Star of the night was Bay House student Molly Fancey, who received the Chief Executive Officer’s Award after being described by her tutor as a ‘lockdown legend’. It was her second award of the event, having previously been announced as the Greatest Ambassador. After receiving her virtual trophy Molly said: “I am very grateful and honoured. I would like to thank my teachers who nominated me.”