
A Dulwich pupil is reaching for the stars this Christmas, after winning a national science competition for primary schools.
10- year-old Lottie from Alleyn’s Junior School scooped the top prize in the junior category of the Empiribox ‘Win a Star’ competition, which invited children across the country to invent an alien – and take their place in space by winning a star.
Lottie took the top spot with her extra-terrestrial creation- a rainbow-coloured creature with clever characteristics for life in outer space. With big swirly eyes to see through fog and extra body weight to beat low gravity, the amazing alien impressed the Empiribox judges.
The Year 5 pupil was presented with her prize at a special school assembly last week. Winning a star in her name, and one named after Alleyn’s Junior School, Lottie was thrilled to receive a sky map showing where to find her stars at night.
Lottie’s classmates will also enjoy a magical star-gazing experience of their own, when an exciting planetarium show visits Alleyn’s Junior School in February as part of the competition prize.
Lottie said,
“When I thought about my alien, I read through everything about the planet. We had just studied space in our science lessons. I’d like to do something in science when I leave school. I was really excited to win as I’ve never won anything before!”
Teacher Brett Goldspink, Science Co-ordinator at Alleyn’s Junior School said:
“We were delighted to learn that Lottie had won this exciting science competition. At Alleyn’s we aim to inspire the next generation of scientists.”
The Win a Star Competition was run by primary science experts Empiribox, who work with schools across the UK to help teachers deliver exciting practical investigations and engage younger children with science.
Empiribox Founder Dan Sullivan said:
“Children are fascinated by stars and the idea of life on other planets. Our Win a Star Competition really fired their imagination and we were amazed by the creativity of the designs. Lottie’s entry really stood out because she showed a lovely understanding of space science. We believe that every science lesson should be practical and fun!”
Discover how Empiribox is nurturing future scientists. Visit www.empiribox.org.
The author
Read more
Read more
Read more
Read more
Read more
Read more
Read more
Read more
https://cornerstoneseducation.co.uk/
Curriculum Maestro is a game-changing online platform that helps you to implement and manage your primary curriculum all from one place. It includes a fully sequenced curriculum, projects, resources, teaching and assessment tools. Curriculum Maestro is aligned with the new Ofsted framework and is easy to implement, saving you and your staff hours of valuable time.
VEX Robotics is educational robotics for everyone. From primary school to college, VEX solutions span all levels of education with accessible, scalable, and affordable solutions. Beyond science and engineering, VEX encourages creativity, teamwork, and problem solving in groups.
Operoo is a school operations and productivity platform. We help thousands of schools and trusts to eliminate slow, expensive and repetitive tasks. Operoo helps schools streamline and digitise processes, drastically reducing the associated costs: From student pre-admissions, permission forms, payments, and school trips; to medical information and emergency contacts, incident reporting, staff agreements, and more in over 100 languages.
Unify is an online sales and marketing tool that allows users to create tailored personalised documents in moments.
https://www.utility-aid.co.uk/
There’s nothing special about the energy we sell. In fact, it’s exactly the same energy as all our competitors provide. But there is something special about the way we do it. Where others complicate the process, we simplify it. Where others confuse customers with hidden terms, we’re an open book. And where others do all they can to make as much money from their customers as possible, we do all we can to make as little. Everything we do, we do it differently. Our customers are a privilege. One we’ll never take advantage of.
https://www.schoolspider.co.uk/
Book a 30 min demo here and claim your £50 Amazon voucher afterwards: calendly.com - A complete all in one system for managing your website, communicating with parents & staff, managing bookings & payments, lunches, parents' evenings, surveys & much more. Intuitive, flexible, powerful and extremely simple to use for anyone regardless of ICT knowledge.
https://www.rocketlearn.co.uk/
Combining the best of teaching with the best of edtech - via holiday learning programmes for schools and personal hybrid tutoring programmes for individuals.
Securus provide market-leading monitoring solutions to safeguard students on ALL devices both online and offline. We also offer a full monitoring service, where we carry out the monitoring on behalf of the school, freeing up valuable staff resources. From the smallest school to large MAT groups, Securus offers safeguarding protection for all!