@ Alpha Preparatory School
At Alpha, we celebrated ‘Space Week’ with an special dress up day and assembly about the importance of exploration and inspiration. In assembly, we found out about Dr Mae Jemison, an American engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first African-American woman to travel into space on the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992 and we found out that Dr Jemison was inspired by Nichelle Nichols’ as Lieutenant Uhura in the original series of Star Trek.
By producing billions of clothes every year, the fast fashion industry is releasing waste and chemicals into our world, polluting and driving species to the brink of extinction.
Children from around the world were invited to enter the competition to design a solution to being both fashionable and sustainable organised by the British International Education association.
The children had to create a detailed report and pass an interview stage to be invited to the final showcase at the new UCl Marshgate campus.
Amazingly, every team entered from Alpha were invited and they presented their ideas to the judges. Some children had specially flown in from America, China, Azerbaijan and Turkey to present their ideas in the final showcase to the judges and it was lovely to see special guests at the final including the Turkish and China’s ambassador was also in.
Therefore, we were completing taken back when Alpha Preparatory school was called up 5 times during the presentations.
‘Tremendous Taylors’, consisting of Sarvesh, Krish and Darsh, received the Emerging Impact award.
‘Brilliant Bamboozlees’, consisting of Ganesh, Eva and Bilal, received the Emerging Impact award.
‘Efficient Engineers’, consisting of Preyian, Ishan and Ewan, received the Emerging Impact award.
‘Fantastic Eco Trio’, consisting of Emily, Aman and Aran, received the third place award.
Finally, just when we thought it was all over, ‘We Mean Green’, consisting of Tanush, Kian and Leah, received second place award.
What an amazing achievement by the children in Year 6
This coding challenge competition invited children to unleash their creativity by designing animations, apps and games using Discovery Education Coding – the award-winning resource for primary schools.
5 year old Daaris from Alpha Preparatory School in Harrow, took first prize in the KS1 category of the challenge, after designing a block coding game set in outer space. The judges were impressed by his entry, which showed “great imagination and coding skills!”
Daaris’s prize is a Botley Coding Robot , plus a year’s free subscription to Discovery Education Coding for his school.
Debbie Tipton, teacher at Alpha Preparatory School said,
“Daaris was thrilled to win the prize. His favourite subject is space and he incorporated his knowledge into the design. He was also excited for the rest of the school to benefit from his award by having access to Discovery Education Coding for a year. We are all very proud of Daaris.”
Daaris said,
“I am so excited to have won, I love space and I love computing. I am looking forward to programming Botley. I can make him do lots of things”
With lots of concepts to explore, Discovery Education Coding helps children to master computer programming in a fun and accessible way, giving them the freedom to create apps and games using their imagination.
Howard Lewis, Discovery Education’s Managing Director UK and International said:
“Congratulations to Daaris, KS1 winner of this year’s Discovery Education Top Coder Competition and to everyone who took part. Coding is a vital skill for the future. It’s great to see so many students using our resources to master it and have fun with computer programming.”
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