On the morning of the Big PIE (Primary Inspiration through Enterprise) Challenge, the pupils participated in two activities - one engineering based and the other coding. We were lucky to have two engineers assisting us. With the help of Lt Col Andy Black, who works at Catterick Garrison in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and Mr. Alley - the chair of governors, we successfully attempted the tasks set.
For the engineering activity, the pupils were required to build a small toy plane and then had to measure the distance the plane flew. The children completed the coding task on a website called Coding Combat. During this, the children played a game which required the use of coding to get through each level. The challenge was to see how far each pupil could progress within the game in 30 minutes. Many children completed the levels and prizes were awarded. Team work, creativity, resilience and perseverance were needed to complete the tasks and all children excelled at this. “Students showed real qualities of success, determination, creativity and teamwork. It was a pleasure supporting the Big Pie Challenge and working with so many wonderful students at Reid Street.” Lt Col Andy Black REME Pupils from year 4 to year 6 took part in Darlington’s annual Dance Festival on Monday 19th March. They worked incredibly hard to rehearse a dance for this show and put on a great performance. On the morning of 19th March, the children took part in workshops at the Dolphin Centre where they learnt some moves to jazz and commercial music. Both children and staff thoroughly enjoyed the day.
What an exciting morning we had on Monday 12th March. Our road safety officers had arranged for the ‘Seat Belt Sheriff’ to come into school to talk about the importance of wearing a seat belt when travelling in a car. We also learnt that you needed to be 135cm tall to travel in a car without a booster seat. Many of us were shocked that we were shorter than 135cm and didn’t use a booster seat. We watched two toy cars filled with dummies travel down a ramp. The ones wearing the seat belts remained in their seats whilst the non-seat belt wearing family ended up coming out of the car and being injured. We all made a pledge to the ‘Seat Belt Sheriff’ that we would all wear our seat belts and encourage others to do the same.
As well as the ‘Seat Belt Sheriff’, Sergeant Peter Tate from Channel 5’s Police interceptors spoke to the children about remaining safe on the roads and when travelling in cars. Some of the children were able to look at the police interceptor’s car. The ITV news cameras came into school to film the assembly too and we were on GMTV news on Tuesday morning Pupils and staff had great fun dressing up for World Book Day this month and as always there were some fabulous costumes making it extremely difficult for class teachers to pick a winner. A winning boy and girl were chosen from each class and received a book from the book fair as their prize.
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