Robotics in Years 5 and 6
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‘Jeremy’ the Robot was created by our STEAM club as part of the lead up to National Engineering Week. Forfar Education, which owns and manages several exceptional independent schools across the UK, including Springmead School and Little Crickets Nursery in Beckington, as part of its STEAM project across all its Schools, conducted a Robotics Challenge, named 'Build, Code, Compete!'
Springmead School’s Year 5 and 6 club took the competition very seriously. The team, through their own creativity and working together, rose to the challenge, to build and code a Lego robot from scratch, that would pick up an object and drop it off at a designated location.
Science lead, Stacey Watson says, “The children worked independently, they took the brief and ran with it. From designing and building the robot, to coding it for the task, their robot, 'Jeremy', is testament to their hard work and innovation.”
A STEAM club member in Year 6 said, “It was great, we made the robot together and had to listen to each other’s ideas and check that it worked as we made it.”
Sally Cox, Headteacher says, “It was great for the children to be competing against other Schools. We are eagerly waiting the results, but this project has sparked huge interest in robotics, coding and programming and we will be building on the learning that took place.”