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What an amazing night of robot designing and building in D&T! 🤖⚙️✍️ Thank you to all young people who paid us a visit at the Bishop Challoner Open Evening 💜@BishopChalloner

We’re excited to welcome parents and families into our DT space! They’re getting ready to build, create and design their own wooden robot 🤖 The most creative robot will WIN A PRIZE! We can’t wait to see the winner🥇 #designandtechnology #productdesign #buildingarobot

@ourladyoflourd1 The children from OLOL were a joy to work with and thoroughly deserve their prizes! It’s fantastic to see how enthusiastic the students are about STEM! Well done OLOL 👏👏👏

The Y5 children who attended the stem fair at Bishop Challoner have come back with 3 prizes for 1st place for getting the most amount of gold stars, 2nd place for second longest marble run and for getting 2nd place overall for being the most enthusiastic, and working together so well.Congratulations! #OLOLScience

Some fantastic appliqué work from Year 7 today! I think we have some fashion designers on our hands! 🧵🪡🌟

@ourladyoflourd1 @BishopChalloner What an absolute pleasure to work with such a fantastic group of resilient, creative problem solvers! Y5&Y6 you smashed it today 💪👏 💙🤍

Thank you to Mrs O’Connor from @BishopChalloner for coming in to do Crumble coding with Y6. They had a fantastic time learning a new skill and putting their debugging skills to the test #OLOLComputing

Y8 are designing and making tunnell structures which must withstand 1kg in weight and extend 400mm. Fantastic team work in evidence! Which group will be crowned the winners?? @BishopChalloner @STEMBC @SmallpeiceTrust

Can you build a tower to support a weight using nothing but paper??? Year 8 can! Fantastic problem solving as part of their STEM challenge day with @SmallpeiceTrust @BishopChalloner

Textiles instulation showcasing the pupils work for Black History month is now up in the Foyer. Amazing pattern repeats inspired by African wax prints.

Amazing Tie dye and lino printed fabric created by year 9 today. Inspired by African wax print fabric as part of Black History Month.

Some Sashiko inspired textiles today from Year 8, combining fabrics with appliqué and hand sewing 🪡🧵

Some more appliqué from Year 8 today, this time thinking about how it can be used in visible mending to restore our clothes 🧵🪡👕🧦

More Textiles club

Textiles club today.. making Hoodies and draping on the manakins

Year 7 basic skills, handsewing part of the Bayeux tapestry

Some fab appliqué examples from Year 7 today 🪡🧵

Year 8 students learning about Fabric Production in Textiles through weaving with looms and yarns of different fibres.

Y7 students in D&T today programming LEDs to change colour and blink using crumbles! Great work! @BishopChalloner

Y7 and Y8 students are almost ready to present their proposals of a community for the future! Thanks to @MarkSouthgate2 @MrGeorgeClarke @Lovell_UK @BishopChalloner

What will homes of the future look like? 🏡How do we design sustainable communities? 🌎🌱Fantastic problem solving from Y7 and 8 in D&T this morning with @MarkSouthgate2 @MOBIEhome @MrGeorgeClarke @BishopChalloner

KS3 D&T students making bread using a recipe taught to refugees in London and designing emblems for the refugee Olympic team 🥖🏅@BishopChalloner #RefugeeWeek