STEM
For 11 to 12 weeks Jessica, Dan, Aaron and
Will (year 7), Stephanie, Shivarnih, Rosella
and Jamie (from year 8), took part in an
engineering challenge to hopefully gain half
a qualification. This challenge consisted of
a 1500 word dissertation explaining what
you have made is about, an artefact (what
you have made), some paper-work on what
your product is and how it works, a log on
everything you have done week-by-week,
a presentation to people explaining about
the product (on a presentation night open
to the parents of the people, who made
the products, and the teachers) and a lot
of hard, hard work. Just writing this tires
me out, so you can only imagine how
hard it was to actually do the challenge!
Overall it was amazing and so much fun
and I hope a lot of people take this fantastic
opportunity when it will hopefully happen
in the future again. I would like to take this
opportunity to say a big thank you to Ms
Khatri, Mr Thompson, Mr Paget, Miss Colborne,
Mr Hodgetts and Miss Harris. THANKYOU!
By Rosella (year 8)
European Union
Day for
Woodrush High
THURSDAY 9th May
was European Union day
– it was 63 years ago to the day
since the French Minister
Robert Schuman had
announced in a
speech that French
and German
leaders should
put their coal
and steel
industries
together.
The
leaders of
Belgium,
Italy,
Luxembourg and
the Netherlands
were also
convinced about
the idea and so
the European Coal and Steel
Community was set up.
By 1957 these 6 countries were
working so well together that they
decided to share a common market
to make it easier to trade together
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and called
themselves
the European
Economic
Community.
This got rid
of all the
border checks
and customs
duties and
allowed the
6 countries to trade with one another
as though they were all one single
country.
In the 1960’s other countries saw
how the common market was making
life easier for the people in those
countries – they had more money to
spend, more food to eat, and more
varied things in the shops and so these
other countries asked to join too.
However it was not a simple process
and it wasn’t until 1973, after years of
discussion that the UK, Denmark and
Ireland were allowed to join. Greece
joined in 1981, followed by Portugal
and Spain in 1986
and then Austria,
Finland and
Sweden in 1995.
By 1992 the
European Economic
Community had
extend its sharing
across borders
so much and had
become so different
to the original club
that they decided to change its name
to the European Union as we know it
today.
To celebrate European Union day
Mrs Court’s year 9 maths group learnt
about the history of the EU and then
looked at the reflection and rotational
symmetry of the EU flag. They then did
calculations using the currency of the
EU, the Euro, and converted amounts
in sterling into Euro’s. Mrs Courts
brought some Euro’s into school so the
pupils could compare them with English
pounds and pence.