Annabelle's Passion Project

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Unit of Inquiry - Stories by Candlelight

Science Club Teaser

As you may have seen on a previous blog post, all the Year 8s have changed Leadership positions and now Enya, Harriet, Aria and I are the new Science Leaders. Since Science Club was so successful last term, we have decided to continue holding it. Last week we had our Science Club teaser so students could come try some experiments and see what Science Club is like - hopefully they will come next term when we start the actual Science Club. On Thursday lunchtime we opened the club up to the year 1 - 4s, making edible slime, and on Friday we had year 5 - 8s making bouncy balls. We had a lot more people come than we first expected but we kept it as organised as we could and had a lot of fun.

We can’t wait until next term to start the actual Science Club.

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Review Writing

After our production ‘Peter Pan’ we got set a task to write a review from the perspective of an audience member. In order to do this we shared our ideas and thinking about what a review is, what needs to be in a review and how to write one. After we did our Peter Pan review we went even further and started writing up reviews for movies, tv shows and concerts.

Click here to see Lucy’s review of Peter Pan.

Want to know what we think it takes to write a review and how YOU can learn how to write one?Check out our slides below to see how to write a review. Thanks!

Robotics

        

   

What do you think of when you hear the word “ROBOT”? The Terminator? A cyborg? R2D2 or C3PO? Probably something different to what the Selwyn House Senior Robotics Club members think. When we hear “ROBOT”, we tend to think of a more peaceful bunch that don’t intend to destroy (or save) the world.

Over the last term Robotics club has been working towards Robocup in 3 weeks. Robocup is a worldwide competition, although most New Zealanders stick to our National or Regional competitions. You must build and program a robot- most of the time, an NXT or an EV3 like the one shown above. The preparations are very stressful for everyone!

We have been working in teams to create performances in 3 categories, Theatre, Rescue and Soccer. In Theatre, teams choose to rather make a skit or a dance routine for their robot and them to do. In Rescue, the competition is set up in a Search and Rescue scenario. Your robot must complete challenges, such as finding and pushing a can out of a square. Soccer (quite a self-explanatory name) is where a team of two robots play a game of soccer, like a sports competition. The overall winner is determined by winning the most of the games. 

We will be posting another post in three weeks about what happened over the competition. Wish us luck!      

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