Our focus week for this half term is ‘Technology Week’ which will begin on October 6th. The week will involve the children exploring a Rube Goldberg Machine. A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in a comically overcomplicated way. Usually, these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices; the action of each triggers the initiation of the next, eventually resulting in achieving a stated goal. Each class will be involved in setting up a Rube Goldberg machine. We will then join each class’s machine together in the school hall to create one big machine with the aim of releasing Rio (our Rights Respecting Reindeer) into the air in his hot air balloon, Off We Go!!!
We will end the week with a “Mad Science” whole school workshop, exploring flight, space and rockets. Due to the hall being used for the workshop there will be no Celebration Assembly on Friday 10th October.