Today several pupils from our school including two of our STEM Ambassadors represented us at the STEM environmental summit at Hilderthorpe School. There were a number of local schools there who had all been working really hard on their pledge to improve their local environment and increase their commitment to recycling within school. In addition, pupils in year 4 in each school had been set the challenge of producing a wind turbine that would spin the fastest over 15 seconds and a further challenge for the wind turbine that could lift the heaviest load. We were extremely excited to learn that we won the award for the best Wind Turbine Design and also the award for the greatest impact for the environment. We felt very proud of ourselves. The children delivered their presentation with confidence and enthusiasm and represented our school so well. They were able to talk about all of the recent environmental initiatives that we have put into place such as tree planting and improving the Wildlife Garden.
Here are some of our pupils who attended the event and their thoughts on the morning.
We watched a video recording of a lady called Jenny who is a wind turbine engineer. She answered questions that had been put to her by Hilderthorpe School and our school. We learnt that last year 25% of our electrical power was provided by wind turbines. Jenny has to solve problems when things go wrong with the wind turbines and she said that her love of maths at school has certainly helped with this.
We talked about our re-love reuse sale and we showed the other schools our wind turbines. I loved it when we came 1st place, we were all so happy.
