The Pumpkins have just had their 30 minute judging session where they shared their Innovation Project and Robot Design presentations. The judges were laughing and smiling throughout and the children presented the learning and answered the judges questions with such confidence and shared their experiences with them. We won’t know the scores until tomorrow, but the children came out absolutely buzzing and said they thought it went really, really well.
In the words of James B – “ooof, HOME RUN!!!”
Today in school we had ‘Dress Like a Pumpkin’ day where everyone was encouraged to come in wearing orange if they could. As well as this we had a ‘Name the Penguin’ competition and a really exciting LEGO Sale as well (thanks to James B’s
This is a message I really wasn’t expecting to write (especially after just two weeks!), but I’m delighted to say that we’ve reached our fundraising target!! The £10,000 from GoFundMe along with the nearly £15,000 from companies sponsoring the Pumpkins means we’re going to go
Today we were joined by BBC Spotlight, who came to visit us at Penpol to learn about our Food Waste project and how we’re fundraising to get to America. They interviewed us and filmed lots of clips of our Robot in action. The program aired