The year 6 class at Rufford Primary School have just successfully
completed their project for this halfterm. I can take no credit for the
planning and execution of the majority of this; the class teacher has run the
project alongside SATs and the residential experience that followed. She
commented that making the fairground models acted as a great stress reliever
and that pupils were able to be really creative.
When the project was first mentioned I suggested using our Crumble
Boards (Redfern Electronics) to program the fairground models. I have to admit
that I didn’t know how we were going to achieve this but it did seem like a
great idea! The class have already used Scratch extensively and are going to
use Kodu next half term but the Crumble Boards offered a great opportunity to
program for a real purpose. You can watch a video of their work here:
It was fantastic! It was great to see children showing
respect for the equipment, putting their circuit work into practice, solving
problems and applying the programming techniques that they had used previously.
They also enjoyed it. We could have used a battery pack to power the rides but
the crumble boards allowed us to do much more including change speed, change
direction and add lights.
We will definitely do this again.
