Day 7 - Gambule Primary School

For our second school visit we attended Gambule Primary school where we carried out three workshops with different age groups! We began with the older students, in standards five to seven, and we built ballon cars first. The models were brilliant created by the students, and it was great to see the problem solving and creativity they brought into the activity when testing their cars in competition! The next workshop was the conductive tap workshop where the children learnned about LED circuits and how electicity flow depends on negative and positive terminals. A more complex workshop tackled extraordinarily by the students. The success of the circuit was determined by the lighting up of the LED, and when it did - the reactions were priceless.

For the second half of the day we worked with the younger students, aged reception to standard four. Elise and Keira stayed with receoption to build a very impressive ball run. All of the children raced their ping-pong balls down the paper slide the team had built and celebrated their success with a dance-party!

With standard one to four, the first workshop was the paper straw rockets. The teams of varying ages assissted eachother to construct their final models before taking part in a fantastic competition. Next up was the stethescopes, again the students worked together to curate their working piece of medical equipment. Before we knew it, everyone was running around, jumping, getting their heartrates pumping so we could test our equipment and hear each others heartbeats. Our final workshop of the day was another ball run where we had paper stemming from trees, walls and chairs to see who could make their ball take the longest down their creative pathways.