Schools

Lego design and technology workshop

Abbotsham Primary

Year 1 & 2 at Abbotsham C of E Primary are looking at the North Devon Coast. We studied maps of the coast line and looked at the features we could find, using pictures and maps the children built sections of the coast line and we joined them altogether at the end of the day to make a big display for the parents to view.

Airedale Junior school, Castleford.

Catapult building

Year 4 at Airedale designed and built catapults.

we measured how far the catapult went each time, modified our designs and retested.

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Bishopsteignton

Bridge Building.

Motorised Vehicles.

Chudleigh Primary

"You taught my daughter at Chudleigh Primary this week. She came home full of enthusiasm about her day learning about, building and testing the tank she had built with her friends under your guidance ~ I thought it was truly inspirational ! "

Parent

Cockwood Primary

With class 2 At Cockwood primary school we built a Lego map of Cockwood and the surrounding area.

With class 3 we designed and built Mayan Termples

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Clyst hydon Primary

Santa sleigh racing.

Doddiscombleigh Primary School

WW2 Tank building and testing

Yr 3-6 showed great resilience and built amazing motorised tanks to link to their ww2 topic.

The children were able to implement their school values in their learning.

We timed our tanks over a distance of 5 meters, collected the data and did target practice.

Dunsford Primary

100% engaged

"It was a really educational afternoon which the children thoroughly enjoyed and were 100% engaged through the whole session. The open~ended nature of the afternoon really encouraged the children to innovate and solve problems".

East Allington Primary

The children designed and build Mayan temples and we also created Mayan art using Lego .

KS1 classes made sea creature.

Ford Primary School

We build Indian Temples.

Decoy Community Primary

Yr 4 at Decoy designed and built working water wheels as part of their ancient greek topic. We used 1l of water to see how many times we could get the waterwheels to turn.

Hatherleigh Primary School

Great wall of China.

Dinosaurs.

Map of Dartmoor.

Victorians, bridge and train building.

Hazelbury Bryan Primary School

Building a Lego School.

At Hazelbury Bryan we had a whole school workshop. Each class came and built part of the school including the swimming pool, Just mind the shark!

Hennock Primary School

Volcanos

To link to the topic of volcanoes we designed erupting volcanoes using levers and linkages.

Highweek primary school

Highweek primary school visited the Newton Abbot GWR museum. To start their design and technology topic about bridges we build bridges and trains.

Kings Court First Primary School.

At Kings Court we designed and built different religious building, including a Mosque, Cathedral, Hindu and buddhist temple.

Kingsbridge Primary School

Operation Tiger.

To link in to the Yr5 WW 2 topic we had an operation tiger day. We designed and build motorised tanks and LSTs.

St Michael's Primary Kingsteignton

Science week 2023 'connection' At St Michael's Primary school every class from Froglets to Yr 6 took part in our Lego bridge building workshop. Thinking about how bridges connect us to friends and wider connunities.

Laira Green Primary. Plymouth

Science week 2021 At Laira Green Primary School.

At Laira Green Primary every child enjoyed a Lego workshop for science week.

Foundation: Built Animals.

Yrs 1 & 2: Built cars with pull back motors.

Yrs 3 & 4: Designed and built wind turbines

Yrs 5 & 6: Explored gears to make fast and slow cars

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Leigham Primary School

Year 4 Catapult designing and building.

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Lanesend Primary School IofW

At Lanesend Primary the Children are learning about Walls. We build walls to protect our selves, to keep people in or out, We build walls because we are afraid. The roman build Hadrain's Wall the Chinese built their Great Wall. The German Democratic Republic built the berlin wall. At Lanesend Primary we were inspired by these walls and we built The Great Lego wall.

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Marine Academy Primary School

Mars Rovers

Water Wheels

Mars Rovers. We designed and built Mars rovers. each rover was motorised. We tested the vehicles over a mars surface and timed how long it took them to travel 5 Mtrs

Mawgan in Pydar Primary School

At Mawgan in pydar primary the Children were engineers of the day. Yrs 4,5,& 6 Built Trains and bridges. Yrs 1 & 2 build city vehicles with pull back motors. At the after school club the children built electric vehicles.

Millwater School

at Millwater school we designed and built Moon rovers in the morning . In the afternoon we created dinosaurs, some had moving wings, arms and legs.

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Park School Primary School

Lego School build.

At Park school in Bournemouth we did a really large build to include the entire school, about 8 different building. Each class over the 2 days came and added to the amazing Lego school.

Pennycross Primary School

Designing, building and testing Moon rovers.

Preston Down Primary School

Bridge building, Victorians, Brunel.

Roselands Primary School

Tank designing, building and testing.

St Catherine's Primary School

Where we live workshop is about exploring our area and building part of it. This workshop is great for linking to Victorians and Brunel. One of the themes is building our local railway, working from old railway plans we build the local railway station and track layout. We design and build motorised trains and test them on the track.

St Leonards Primary School

Year 6 at St Leonards Primary School in Exeter started their topic on Brunel by building motorised trains and bridges.

We explored different ways of connecting the engine to the wheels. We used cogs and gears also using elastic bands as drive belts.

We then designed and build different types of bridges, including a through Truss bridge, a Truss bridge with the rails on top and beam bridges.

St Michael's Primary, Kingsteignton

Mythical Creatures

At St Michael's the whole school from reception to year 6 took part in a massive mythical creature building workshop. The children worked in groups of 2/3 to build their own mythical creature.

A big thank you to Sibelco who sponsored the workshop.

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St Peter's Budleigh Salterton

Tank designing, building and testing at St Peter's Primary school Budleigh Salterton.

Yr 5/6 Designed, built and tested their tanks. We timed how long it took the tanks to travel 5 meters.

We also did some target practice and recorded how many times we hit and missed the target.

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Stokeinteignhead Primary School

At Stokeinteignhead Year 4/5 designed and built Lunar Rovings Vehicles (LRV). Year 6 designed and built Mars Rovers.

Stover School

During the autumn term (2018) with Yr 7/8 art club we designed and built Lego Mondrian buildings.

Trinity Prep School

"Prep 3, 4, 5 and 6 had a fantastic time designing and building a drawing machine out of technic Lego on Monday. In pairs or threes, the children were set the challenge to design a machine that could draw a perfect circle. They used their skills of creativity, cooperation, communication and perseverance to create some truly fabulous machines!"

Westcliff Primary School

Building remote controlled robots.

Willowbank Primary School

Yr 1 & 2 had a fantastic day Building and Testing their Moon Rovers.

Woodwater Primary School

The talked about Friction and which surfaces create more or less Friction, we then looked at gears and learnt which gear combination would be best to pull a load. The Children build in groups of 3 a motorised Lego vehicle, we then attached a load and tried pulling it over different surfaces and timed how long it took.

Woolsery Primary

Moving Creatures
Motorised vehicles to carry water bottles

Yr 4-5 built creatures with moving parts. we weighed the creatures and calculated how much food they would eat if they ate their own body weight in food each day.

Yr 5-6 build motorised vehicles to move water bottles