Vol 6 Issue 1.pub - Highcliffe School
Vol 6 Issue 1.pub - Highcliffe School
Vol 6 Issue 1.pub - Highcliffe School
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proud of their efforts, as<br />
we are.<br />
Report by Mrs Johnson<br />
Science Dept.<br />
Activities week<br />
Year 8 –<br />
Mechanical<br />
Animals<br />
In a related story –<br />
the Science Department,<br />
during Activities<br />
Week, offered a<br />
number of Year 8<br />
students the opportunity<br />
to do some<br />
practical work in robotics.<br />
As you can see from<br />
the photographs the<br />
Year 8 robotic group<br />
<strong>Highcliffe</strong> <strong>School</strong> has<br />
Success at F1 in <strong>School</strong>s<br />
Technology Challenge.<br />
Team ‘<strong>Highcliffe</strong> Lightning’<br />
travelled to the Blandford<br />
<strong>School</strong> on Thursday the 6 th<br />
of July 2006, to compete<br />
against 18 teams in the<br />
Dorset F1 in <strong>School</strong>s<br />
Technology Challenge.<br />
The team consisting of<br />
William Fry (Team Manager),<br />
William Long<br />
(Manufacturing Engineer),<br />
Thomas Smith<br />
(Design Engineer), Graham<br />
Vey (Resources<br />
Engineer) with Team<br />
Coordinators Mr. M.<br />
Simmons and Mr. S.<br />
Nicholls, successfully competed<br />
at the event taking<br />
away two of the sevenawarded<br />
trophies. The<br />
first trophy awarded to<br />
‘<strong>Highcliffe</strong> Lightning’ was<br />
for the ‘Best use of ICT’<br />
successfully built a wide<br />
variety of mechanical animals,<br />
which they then<br />
Design & Technology<br />
within the whole project.<br />
The second trophy was<br />
awarded for the ‘Best<br />
KS3 Presentation’ to the<br />
judges. All students were<br />
also given vouchers for<br />
WHSmith as part of the<br />
awards.<br />
The <strong>Highcliffe</strong> Lightning<br />
team have also been well<br />
supported by their sponsor,<br />
Mr. C. Walker at<br />
Keith Motors Ltd. (Ford),<br />
who was able to give the<br />
went on to race.<br />
Report by Mrs Johnson<br />
team, including the staff<br />
coordinating the <strong>Highcliffe</strong><br />
effort, team shirts with appropriate<br />
team and Ford<br />
logos.<br />
Keith Motors Ltd. also<br />
helped paint the cars professionally<br />
and donated<br />
a mode of transport for<br />
the day, when the team<br />
found they had no<br />
school transport available<br />
to take them to the<br />
competition. Keith Motors<br />
Ltd. managed to<br />
loan the team the recently<br />
released S-Max<br />
titanium MPV to take<br />
the team of six to the<br />
competition as part of a<br />
coordinated effort to get<br />
the vehicle noticed out and<br />
about.<br />
It was an excellent day for<br />
the ‘<strong>Highcliffe</strong> Lightning’<br />
team, at The Blandford<br />
<strong>School</strong> based competition.<br />
H2U, <strong>Vol</strong> 5 <strong>Issue</strong> 6, Humanities Special - June 2006 Page 13
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