Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Explorer Jack

  Thu 19 Jan 2017 Mr Yeo

  We had Explorer Jack come and visit our year one children at Whitestone Infant School as part of our topic on explorers. The children were enthralled by meeting a real life explorer, who lives locally too. They were amazed to hear about all the different places he has visited including the Sahara desert, the Australian outback and the Himalayan Mountains.

   

  He went on to tell us about his upcoming adventure to the Arctic circle where he will spend three days racing across Norway and Sweden pulled by over 100 huskies! He has been voted to represent the UK on this expedition and is raising funds for Worldwide Cancer Research.

   

  You can learn more about Explorer Jack and his amazing adventures at:

  www.jack-Williams.uk

  

• The day the Robots came...

  Thu 19 Jan 2017 Miss De Vogel

  Each class in Year Two have had a special visit from the robot called Nao. Nao gave the children an experience to develop an understanding of what the future may look like. Nao came for a whole day showing the children what he was programmed to do. We were very impressed with all the different things Nao could do and how similar he was to a human. Colin and Sarah explained how Nao worked and gave the children lots of new vocabulary to learn. The children were then shown how they could use the Lego program like Colin and Sarah do with Nao.

  In the afternoon the children were given the opportunity to show and share their learning with their parent/carer. The children were asked to build a fairground ride with their parent/carer support and we found this was very successful. The children very much enjoyed learning about Nao as well as using the Lego to create their own Robots.