SUMMER 2013

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Welcome to Haywood Augmented Reality (AR)By downloading a free app on to your smartphone or tablet you can bring the photograph

above to life using the power of a new technology called Augmented Reality (AR).

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By Head Teacher

CARL WARD

Head Teacher Carl Ward picturedin Haywood Engineering College’s

futuristic Learning Tower.

HAYWOOD Engineering College takespride in being at the cutting edge ofeducational technology – so we are

delighted to be one of the first academies inthe UK to communicate with prospectivepupils and their parents using a newtechnology called Augmented Reality (AR).

Follow the easy three-step instructionbelow to access bonus video content which

will be streamed on to your smartphone ortablet from a Cloud-based server.

The video shows myself speaking from theLearning Tower at Haywood delivering amessage to Year 5 and 6 pupils and theirparents or carers at our feeder primaryschools. If you do not have an AR accessdevice the message is on the College’swebsite.

This is our first experiment usingAugmented Reality which rides on the backof the fast-developing technologies relating tomobiles. However, personally, I do believeAugmented Reality will have an importantfuture role in education. I hope you enjoy thestories about activities we have provided forpupils from our feeder schools – and we willkeep you in touch with future events.

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HAVING found out about RomanEmperors Hadrian and Claudius, Year 4pupils from New Ford Primary School

started to dream about finding buried treasure.Very soon their dream was to come true, asthey ventured onto the Haywood school field insearch of just that. Metal detectors at theready, they left no blade of grass undetected intheir quest to locate treasure.

Back in the workshop, Year 4 pupilsdesigned their own coins. This was followed byusing coin moulds, molten pewter and thecasting machinery to produce their ownreproduction Roman coins to keep as asouvenir. Treasure trove it was not, but abrilliant fun learning experience it certainly was.

Meanwhile, the Key Stage 1 after-schooldance club can certainly boogie with the best.Each week many KS1 children attend the NewFord Dance Club. Haywood students havebeen supporting this club and helping thechildren to learn new moves.

Not only is this great exercise, but it alsohelps to develop their confidence.

Ask any of the New Ford Year 1 childrenwho attended the Art Department at Haywood,what is the meaning of accuracy – and theywill happily tell you. With this in mind, theythen had to choose to draw either a super hero

– Iron man – or a beautiful butterfly. Carefullythey traced and coloured a copy of theirchosen picture. By the end of the session therewere some excellent drawings and some veryproud expressions.

Some New Ford Key Stage 2 children havebeen learning all about Mexico. As a follow onfrom this topic, Haywood supported the ICTafter-school club to produce some funanimations. Using 2Animate, the childrencreated animations of Dancing Cacti,Sombreros and Chillies.

New Ford Year 5 pupils took part in aScience lesson at Haywood. Working in theScience Lab they carried out an experiment tochange the state office. Wearing their safetyglasses, this was the first opportunity for manypupils to carry out a scientific experiment in aspecially equipped Science Lab. They foundusing the bunsen burners exciting.

Year 5 returned to Haywood to design andmake rockets in the Technology Department.Having completed the making stage, the realtest of workmanship was in the launching.

Pupils went out onto the school field to takea turn at launching their own rockets. Everyonewas keen to see how high their rocket wouldgo before returning to earth. A great time washad by everyone.

SOLID, liquid or gas –this was the subjectof an experimentcarried out by Year 5pupils fromBurnwood PrimarySchool in January.

As the snow lay onthe ground, the pupilswent out onto the yardto gather samples ofsnow to use for theirexperiments.

Back in the laboratory,Year 5 were then able toobserve the change tothe snow as they slowlyheated it over a bunsenburner. As one pupilcommented: “Using thelab facilities made thelesson more interestingand exciting – it felt like aproper science lesson.”

Meanwhile, the rocketcars activity is nevershort on excitement andthis year’s was noexception.

Burnwood Year 5, werequickly in the drivingseat, creating theirrocket car designs andmodels.

Once tested, it wasdown to the business ofwinning. Move over TopGear, Burnwood are hoton your wheels.

A sunny day in Mayprovided an opportunityfor Year 5 pupils fromBurnwood to go out intothe Haywood grounds insearch of real live bugs.

Looking carefully in thevegetation, under stonesand pieces of wood theymanaged to find a fewbugs to investigate.

In the lab, using themicroscopes, the pupilsexamined thecharacteristics of thebugs before ensuringthey were safely returnedto the wild.

TWO groups of Year 5 pupilsfrom Moorpark Junior School

visited the TechnologyDepartment at Haywood tomake pan pipes. This is anancient musical instrumentbased on the principle ofthe closed tube.

Using five graduallyincreasing lengths of

plastic tube and coloured

insulation tape, the pupils wereable to produce their very ownpan pipes. They wasted no timein trying to replicate the musicalsounds synonymous with Peru.

On a visit to the MusicDepartment at Haywood, pupilshad an opportunity to explorevarious soundscapes. Eachgroup had a theme to exploreand interpret – for example

exciting sounds, sounds of thesea and sounds of the city.

As a group they had a freereign to select instruments thatthey felt truly reflected theirsoundscape theme.

The creativity of the sessionallowed the groups to feel valuedand confident enough to performtheir own compositions for therest of the class.

The Technology Department atHaywood hosted a badgemaking activity for MoorparkYear 5 pupils. Using equipmentand materials provided by thedepartment, they designed andmade their own badges.

There’s something quitespecial about making your ownbespoke badge, which can beworn with pride.

IN the Autumn Term, Year 5pupils from Mill Hill Primaryvisited Haywood to recordtheir Scrooge NewsPodcasts.

Year 5 revisited theevents of Charles Dickens’A Christmas Carol andreported them in the styleof 2012 radio news.

We can only guess atwhether this would havemet with the approval of MrScrooge. Ebenezer wouldcertainly have had his workcut out dampening theenthusiasm of the pupils asthey recorded their reports.

Pupils from Mill Hill alsohad an opportunity todevelop their DodgeballSkills during the AutumnTerm. Dodgeball is a gamein which players on twoteams try to throw largeballs at each other whileavoiding being hit

themselves. Mill Hill reallyembraced this activity andentered into the spirit of thegame having great funalong the way.

Several Year 5 pupilsattended an afterschoolclub to make Alice inWonderland stop-frameanimations. Having createdscenery and models thepupils displayed qualities ofteamwork and patience inorder to capture sufficientimages to use for theiranimations.

They then had toadd their audiorecording to theimages. Thepupils were allextremelyproud to sharetheir completedanimations withtheir friends andfamily.

AS part of the outreachwork, Haywood EngineeringCollege supported Year 2children at SmallthornePrimary with their pirateproject.

The pupils used PhotoStory 3 to create their topfive pirate facts. Later in theterm parents were invited totake part in a Treasure ChestWorkshop, where they alsohad an opportunity to watchthe videos created by thechildren.

Parents and childrenclearly enjoyed workingalongside each other and

the activity was a greatsuccess.

Year 4 pupils fromSmallthorne visited Haywoodto take part in a fantasticChoctastic Project.

This project provided themwith an opportunity to workin the Library, TechnologyDepartment and InnovationZone. Roald Dahl’s Charlieand the Chocolate Factoryproved to be inspirational inthe designing and making ofall things chocolate, and bythe end of the day the pupilswere all chocolated out.

Two New Ford pupils use a metal

detector in search of buried treasure.

Shiver me timbers!

It’s themSmallthorne

pirates...

Smallthorne primary pupils pictured at Haywood working on their

pirate project.

Left,New Ford

pupils with theirreproduction Roman

coins. Right, two pupils on Haywood

field treasurehunt.

Pirateproject

pupils receivetuition withtheir work.

Experiments in snowprove to be

Podcasts with newsfrom Mr Scrooge

Making traditional pan pipes to play musical sounds of Peru

Pupils search for buried treasure inthe form of home-made Roman coins

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HAVING found out about RomanEmperors Hadrian and Claudius, Year 4pupils from New Ford Primary School

started to dream about finding buried treasure.Very soon their dream was to come true, asthey ventured onto the Haywood school field insearch of just that. Metal detectors at theready, they left no blade of grass undetected intheir quest to locate treasure.

Back in the workshop, Year 4 pupilsdesigned their own coins. This was followed byusing coin moulds, molten pewter and thecasting machinery to produce their ownreproduction Roman coins to keep as asouvenir. Treasure trove it was not, but abrilliant fun learning experience it certainly was.

Meanwhile, the Key Stage 1 after-schooldance club can certainly boogie with the best.Each week many KS1 children attend the NewFord Dance Club. Haywood students havebeen supporting this club and helping thechildren to learn new moves.

Not only is this great exercise, but it alsohelps to develop their confidence.

Ask any of the New Ford Year 1 childrenwho attended the Art Department at Haywood,what is the meaning of accuracy – and theywill happily tell you. With this in mind, theythen had to choose to draw either a super hero

– Iron man – or a beautiful butterfly. Carefullythey traced and coloured a copy of theirchosen picture. By the end of the session therewere some excellent drawings and some veryproud expressions.

Some New Ford Key Stage 2 children havebeen learning all about Mexico. As a follow onfrom this topic, Haywood supported the ICTafter-school club to produce some funanimations. Using 2Animate, the childrencreated animations of Dancing Cacti,Sombreros and Chillies.

New Ford Year 5 pupils took part in aScience lesson at Haywood. Working in theScience Lab they carried out an experiment tochange the state office. Wearing their safetyglasses, this was the first opportunity for manypupils to carry out a scientific experiment in aspecially equipped Science Lab. They foundusing the bunsen burners exciting.

Year 5 returned to Haywood to design andmake rockets in the Technology Department.Having completed the making stage, the realtest of workmanship was in the launching.

Pupils went out onto the school field to takea turn at launching their own rockets. Everyonewas keen to see how high their rocket wouldgo before returning to earth. A great time washad by everyone.

SOLID, liquid or gas –this was the subjectof an experimentcarried out by Year 5pupils fromBurnwood PrimarySchool in January.

As the snow lay onthe ground, the pupilswent out onto the yardto gather samples ofsnow to use for theirexperiments.

Back in the laboratory,Year 5 were then able toobserve the change tothe snow as they slowlyheated it over a bunsenburner. As one pupilcommented: “Using thelab facilities made thelesson more interestingand exciting – it felt like aproper science lesson.”

Meanwhile, the rocketcars activity is nevershort on excitement andthis year’s was noexception.

Burnwood Year 5, werequickly in the drivingseat, creating theirrocket car designs andmodels.

Once tested, it wasdown to the business ofwinning. Move over TopGear, Burnwood are hoton your wheels.

A sunny day in Mayprovided an opportunityfor Year 5 pupils fromBurnwood to go out intothe Haywood grounds insearch of real live bugs.

Looking carefully in thevegetation, under stonesand pieces of wood theymanaged to find a fewbugs to investigate.

In the lab, using themicroscopes, the pupilsexamined thecharacteristics of thebugs before ensuringthey were safely returnedto the wild.

TWO groups of Year 5 pupilsfrom Moorpark Junior School

visited the TechnologyDepartment at Haywood tomake pan pipes. This is anancient musical instrumentbased on the principle ofthe closed tube.

Using five graduallyincreasing lengths of

plastic tube and coloured

insulation tape, the pupils wereable to produce their very ownpan pipes. They wasted no timein trying to replicate the musicalsounds synonymous with Peru.

On a visit to the MusicDepartment at Haywood, pupilshad an opportunity to explorevarious soundscapes. Eachgroup had a theme to exploreand interpret – for example

exciting sounds, sounds of thesea and sounds of the city.

As a group they had a freereign to select instruments thatthey felt truly reflected theirsoundscape theme.

The creativity of the sessionallowed the groups to feel valuedand confident enough to performtheir own compositions for therest of the class.

The Technology Department atHaywood hosted a badgemaking activity for MoorparkYear 5 pupils. Using equipmentand materials provided by thedepartment, they designed andmade their own badges.

There’s something quitespecial about making your ownbespoke badge, which can beworn with pride.

IN the Autumn Term, Year 5pupils from Mill Hill Primaryvisited Haywood to recordtheir Scrooge NewsPodcasts.

Year 5 revisited theevents of Charles Dickens’A Christmas Carol andreported them in the styleof 2012 radio news.

We can only guess atwhether this would havemet with the approval of MrScrooge. Ebenezer wouldcertainly have had his workcut out dampening theenthusiasm of the pupils asthey recorded their reports.

Pupils from Mill Hill alsohad an opportunity todevelop their DodgeballSkills during the AutumnTerm. Dodgeball is a gamein which players on twoteams try to throw largeballs at each other whileavoiding being hit

themselves. Mill Hill reallyembraced this activity andentered into the spirit of thegame having great funalong the way.

Several Year 5 pupilsattended an afterschoolclub to make Alice inWonderland stop-frameanimations. Having createdscenery and models thepupils displayed qualities ofteamwork and patience inorder to capture sufficientimages to use for theiranimations.

They then had toadd their audiorecording to theimages. Thepupils were allextremelyproud to sharetheir completedanimations withtheir friends andfamily.

AS part of the outreachwork, Haywood EngineeringCollege supported Year 2children at SmallthornePrimary with their pirateproject.

The pupils used PhotoStory 3 to create their topfive pirate facts. Later in theterm parents were invited totake part in a Treasure ChestWorkshop, where they alsohad an opportunity to watchthe videos created by thechildren.

Parents and childrenclearly enjoyed workingalongside each other and

the activity was a greatsuccess.

Year 4 pupils fromSmallthorne visited Haywoodto take part in a fantasticChoctastic Project.

This project provided themwith an opportunity to workin the Library, TechnologyDepartment and InnovationZone. Roald Dahl’s Charlieand the Chocolate Factoryproved to be inspirational inthe designing and making ofall things chocolate, and bythe end of the day the pupilswere all chocolated out.

Two New Ford pupils use a metal

detector in search of buried treasure.

Shiver me timbers!

It’s themSmallthorne

pirates...

Smallthorne primary pupils pictured at Haywood working on their

pirate project.

Left,New Ford

pupils with theirreproduction Roman

coins. Right, two pupils on Haywood

field treasurehunt.

Pirateproject

pupils receivetuition withtheir work.

Experiments in snowprove to be

Podcasts with newsfrom Mr Scrooge

Making traditional pan pipes to play musical sounds of Peru

Pupils search for buried treasure inthe form of home-made Roman coins

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YEAR two pupils from JackfieldInfants School have been busylearning all about robots.

They have visited Haywood totake part in making robot bugsand composing space music.

Back in school theyhave also been learningnew dance moves andcreating a couple ofnew animations aboutRobio the Robot andThe Robots Ugg.

These will be premieredin July. Get the red carpetout, Jackfield!

Robot bugs,dance andanimationmake funlearning

THE Battle of the Robo Bugswas the cause of greatexcitement for Year 3 pupilsfrom Sneyd Green Primary.

Using a bug making kit, witha battery and a motor, thebugs were able to jostle eachother off the edge of the tableto reveal the ultimate winnerat the Haywood hostedevent.

The pupils also made aBugs Video showing the lifecycle of a butterfly and someinteresting facts aboutvarious other bugs.

The project was designed tosupport work the children havebeen doing in school on thistopic.

Meanwhile, three groups ofYear 5 pupils from Sneyd Greenattended a rocket making andlaunching activity in theTechnology Department atHaywood.

Pupils where shown how toconstruct their own rockets.They then added their owndecorative touches beforegoing out on the field tolaunch them.

Using compressed air,all eyes were on the skyto see how high theycould fly before returningto earth.

Year 5 did not need to berocket scientists to have lotsof fun with this task.

Fun project is designed tosupport classroom work

A pupil from Sneyd GreenPrimary puts the finishingtouches to his robot bug.

JackfieldInfants pupils

making robot bugsat a specialsession atHaywood.

Smallthorne’s Jasmine scoopstitle of Spelling Bee championS IX teams took part in an inter-school

brain-teasing spelling competitionhosted by Haywood Engineering

College. Burnwood Primary, SmallthornePrimary, New Ford Primary, Moorpark Junior,Mill Hill Primary and Sneyd Green Primaryeach sent a Year 5 team to represent them.

Following an initial individual and teameffort, the pupils had to battle it out tobecome the finalist for their school. Sixfinalists were then invited onto the stage to

compete against each other until only oneschool remained.

Congratulations go to JasmineCotterill of Smallthorne Primary as theoverall Spelling Bee winner. Jasminewon a pen set, medal, certificate andThe Roald Dahl Treasury.

Smallthorne can now proudly display theSpelling Bee Trophy at their school for thenext 12 months.

All competitors were presented with a

certificate by Haywood Head Teacher CarlWard in recognition of their efforts.

Meanwhile, pupils from Burnwood,Smallthorne, New Ford, Moorpark and MillHill took part in The STEM Rocket CarProject at Haywood.

The five school teams were challenged todesign, make and test a model rocket car.Following some intensive trials and a finalbetween Burnwood and Mill Hill – pupils fromthe latter were declared the winners.

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