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On Monday 24th August, the EAL summer school upped-camp and moved to the Saints study centre at Franklins Gardens stadium for a Robolab session. Pete Austen, study centre manager, ran this session on control technology which involves building lego robot ‘buggies’ and programming them by computer to do various things.

Challenges include getting the buggy to turn 360 degrees and stop, go in a straight line and stop at a specific point, park in a garage and a ‘free-for-all’ race. Students really enjoyed this session and worked together well. They got quite competitive for the grand prix at the end. They also learnt not to give up.

This activity encourages communication, teamwork and co-operation skills. As the group have 6 different languages between them, English is the common language. For this session, students had to learn new vocabulary about the robots.

A big thank you to mentors Tim, Rosie and Zoe.

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House Martins visited the Saints Study Centre for a reward day as part of the ‘PfS on the Road’ project they have been taking part in this term at Towcester Primary School. Previously Ravens class visited and Wrens are due next month.

Activities included: rugby practical with community coach Ross Stewart, (it was freezing! Miss Lipinsky and Mr Skeers will testify this) ICT: name badges, poster of the stadium tour, stadium tour with literacy quiz and brainteaser puzzles.

It was great to see the children enjoying themselves (and funny for Anna to be there with them not in school) out of school and thanks to Pete, Vicky and Jeanette for running these days. Barclaycard supply volunteer mentors for such days too.