The Enormous Turnip – Prep 1

For the last two weeks Prep 1 have been designing and making robots with mechanical movement, also using card engineering. The class have loved learning these processes and had great fun making them into roman solders with swords, shields and daggers.

Prep 4 were given the challenge to build a catapult which is connected to their History this term. They rose to the challenge and had a lot of fun in the process.

This term Prep 5 had the challenge of completing a windmill with sails needing to turn.  We had some fabulous results and Prep 5 loved getting their teeth into this project.

Usually we would all be able to celebrate the end of term together and enjoy reflecting on the success of the past year at St. Christopher’s. We started the Autumn term with a phone call from ISI saying that they would be in to carry out an Education Quality and Compliance Inspection.  The Inspection Team were scrupulous in their…