On Friday 16th March year 5 and 6 students from Appleshaw Primary School paid a visit to the Harrow Way RoboLab to use our LEGO Mindstorms NXT kits. Students completed basic tasks to familiarise themselves with the robots and software, then competed as teams in the "Specsavers" and "Brick Pusher" challenges. To view a selection [...]
On Tuesday 13th March 6 students from year 10 took part in the annual "Blue Fusion" schools event at IBM Hursley Park near Winchester. The students took part in a range of activities including running a nuclear power station, giving a weather forecast and designing a formula 1 car to race against other schools. To [...]
As part of the “Aim Higher” project, and hot on the heels of the year 7 group who visited last week, 10 year 8 students and 3 members of staff return from a 2 day survival course in the New Forest at the Tile Barn centre. […]
In the summer term 2007 the ICT department will be offering students the opportunity to compete in a RoboClub League. Using our Lego Mindstorms NXT robot kits, teams of 4 students will design and construct robots to complete a variety of different challenges. For more information and a team entry form please contact Mr [...]
There have been 25 Harrow Way School ski trips, starting way back in 1982. The resorts used for these trips have varied enormously over the years. We have visited Switzerland, Italy, Austria and France. As time has passed and experience has been gained the selection of resorts has been refined. [...]
On Wednesday January 17th, Mrs Harvey, Miss Lowing and Mrs Morgan took a group of students in the minibus to Roche Court Sculpture Park, near Salisbury. This group of Gifted and Talented students in Art & History braved the wind, rain and very cold conditions in order to participate in a [...]
Do you want your art work? There are still some portfolios of work not yet collected from the art room storage. If you still wish to collect it please make arrangements before the last day of January 2007. We are unable to keep it any longer so please make contact.
This week, students at RoboClub were challenged to design a program that would stop their robots as close to a brick wall as possible (without knocking it down). All students successfully completed the challenge - but not without some mistakes on the way! The videos show positive and negative examples! Specsavers Challenge - Demolition! Specsavers [...]
On Friday 10th Novermber, 20 year 6 students from Kimpton Primary School came to Harrow Way for the first primary "Robo Challenge" day. The day is designed as part of the "Control & Monitoring" strand of the ICT curriculum. Students create programs to control robots and complete a set of challenges.