Year 5 Robotics Club

Some children in Year 5 have been taking part in a VEX IQ Robotics After School Club. Funding through the Reece Foundation has enabled the school to purchase a set of robotics building equipment which has offered children various STEM opportunities such as engineering and coding.

The club has been fun and engaging and has allowed the children to design, code and build a robot from scratch. The children were able to test their engineering and programming skills both in the club and competition they entered hosted by Nissan Skills Foundation. 

All the children in the club contributed in helping with the success of the robot, however we were only able to take 9 to the competition which consisted of the builders, coders and drivers.

This provided the children with valuable life skills such as teamwork, communication skills, and sportsmanship.

The children thoroughly enjoyed their day and out of the 18 schools in the competition, St Joseph’s came an impressive second!