School Highlights
Book Week
State Chess Tournament
On Monday, ten students from our Chess team, represented the school to play chess in the State tournament at Tyndale Christian School. The students each played nine games against ten other schools in the state. Prescott did very well, finishing a close 5th place at the end of the day. I am always so proud of the fair play and sportsmanship displayed by all students at Prescott. Well done, team. Chess club will now be in recess until Week 3, Term 1 next year. Be sure to get your child's name down early.
Mrs Vice
ROBOGALS Incursion
Last Wednesday afternoon, ROBOGALS visited the school to do a computer programming workshop with the Year 3 and 4 STEM Enrichment students.
ROBOGALS is an initiative of the Adelaide University to encourage students (particularly girls) to think about studying in the fields of Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science.
The University students that took the workshop were studying Space Science, Engineering and Nano-technology, and the students enjoyed hearing about these degrees. The STEM group had lots of fun programming the EV3 Lego robots to move in a certain shape, use sensors to change direction so the robots 'see' a certain colour or go backwards when it senses an object. At the end, the students put all their skills together to see which group had programmed with the most skill and develop the 'strongest' robot. There was much excitement in the room participating in the final competitions. Well done to all students for their fantastic engagement and participation.
Mrs. Vice
