Category : Emerging Technologies
Emerging Technologies
GCSE D&T pupils visited Frogmore Papermill. They had the opportunity to make their own piece of handmade paper, understand printing processes and explore the oldest working papermill in the world with a very cold tour round the mill.
Year 10 GCSE D&T pupils visited the BMW Mini factory in Oxford. There they saw the manufacturing of the Mini car using modern automated robots. Followed by racing against each other in Mini car simulators.
ET’s Disneyland Paris Trip
Visiting Micky Mouse and Friends
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A group of pupils attended Aplsey Paper Mill to learn how to make paper for GCSE Product Design.
A group of pupils from years 8, 9 and 10 attended Hertfordshire University for a Computing Enrichment Day. The day included programming robots, coding with the Raspberry Pi, App development and two inspirational talks by a Master Inventor at IBM and Kate Russell from BBC Click.
The Hour of Code
So you have seen the posters, now it’s time to sign up and try an Hour of Code.
What is it? It is a worldwide initiative to encourage everyone to have a go at coding.
Last year over 10 million people tried it.
Join us in D2.8 at break time, lunch time and after school.
Click on the link below and sign up using your school email address to register your hour(s) to our event.
There are tutorials based on Frozen, Angry Birds, or Flappy Birds.
Let’s see if we can reach 1000 hours over the week.
E.T Animation winners
Puddle Man
Chicken Nuggets