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

• Year 3 and 4 go to Young Voices 2020

  Thu 30 Jan 2020

  After months of build-up and rehearsals the day of the Young Voices finally came. Children in Blue Class took part at the World Resorts centre (formally the NEC) in Birmingham.

   

  Everyone was feeling slightly nervous as they did not know what to expect but once they arrived for the afternoon’s rehearsals all those butterflies flew away and the children relaxed and enjoyed the moment. The children became part of a mass choir of over 6000 children for the evening!

  It was an amazing day and the children did us proud. They had a lot to learn, but all the hard work paid off as every single child sang their heart out! They got to sing with Ruti, Tony Hadley and The Shires, but the highlight of the night was getting to watch the parents show off their moves with the dance group Urban strides!

  Thank you to all the parents for allowing your child to take part and to those parents that were fortunate to go to watch and those who have helped their children learn all the songs.  

  Thank you also to Mrs Bryant and Mrs Coulthard for supporting the children on the day and lots of admiration from pupils and parents for your continued singing and dancing!

   

  We are super proud of all the children that took part, and hope that will be an experience that will stay with them forever!

  We can’t wait for the next one!

   

  

• Our Lego team enter the annual First Lego league tournament

  Thu 23 Jan 2020

  On Saturday 18^th January, pupils from Polebrook School took part in the annual First Lego League Tournament which was held in Corby. 

  The theme this year was City Shaper. The children needed to design and build a Lego robot and program it to do a variety of jobs within a city landscape in order to score points. Some of the tasks required include crossing a bridge, constructing buildings and moving to different zones of the map. The children were not allowed to touch or move the robot at all during the tournament so lots of measuring and accuracy were involved in order to get the programming just right!

  The children were also asked to solve an issue with a building within their community. They decided on building a second story for our school in order to grow our own food and create solar energy to make our building more eco-friendly.
  The children needed to create a presentation about their project, the impact it would have on our school and the environment whilst also researching solar panels, wind turbines and green houses.

  Finally, the children came up with an innovative team name (Lego Busters) and logo design, which was printed on our team t-shirts that we wore on Saturday.

  During these tasks, the children needed to show the Core Values of the tournament, which celebrate innovation, teamwork and professionalism.

  We were so proud of how well our team did at the competition, from presenting their work to a panel of judges to competing in intense, epic robot battles against other schools.

  Thank you so much to Caterpillar for sponsoring us during the tournament and for coaching the team. We cannot wait to take another team to the competition next year!