Last week, Year 4 visited the amazing Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, to take part in a LEGO Robotics workshop.
After taking a train to Victoria and a busy London Underground tube to the museum, the children left their possessions in the schools’ area before exploring the Evolution Gallery to find answers to Mrs Morris’s fiendish Stone Age quiz. Looking at the lifelike displays of a Neathanderthal and early Homo Sapien, as well as the wide variety of skulls, tools and weapons on show, the pupils extended their current Humanities learning about the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.
After lunch, the pupils had a chance to explore some more of the museum before taking part in the main event with the NHM’s knowledgeable, kind and helpful adults: Fatima and Pat.
The children worked in teams of two and three to programme and build model Mars rovers to carry out a variety of tasks from LEGO sets. The pupils did amazingly well and applied their confidence with iPads and previous coding learning in Scratch to take control of their technologically advanced robots. The end results would give the American and Russian Space Agencies a run for their money. Well done, Year 4.
