Tiptoe to the races!

Wednesday 23rd May saw Year 5 and 6 students from Tiptoe School visit the Da Vinci centre primed for competition.

Cars were tightly clutched against chests, carefully packaged in their own protective packaging.

The students had been working on their vehicles for a week and a half after Mr Nicholls had been in to Tiptoe Primary School to launch the event.  Students were shown an introductory film and then set the task of designing and constructing sleek, aerodynamic cars or Wacky Racers.

They learned a little about aerodynamics, conductivity and vacuum forming and then set about recycling materials to realise their own car body shells.
Progress was superb and the outcomes were extremely creative.



When race day came two mini buses collected the students from Tiptoe and delivered them to Highcliffe School and the Da Vinci centre.  Students delivered their cars to the pits and then racing commenced.  Each car raced head to head with another with the first round runners-up seeing their cars go into the fastest car race-off.

Over the course of an hour we found an overall winner.  Art Design Technology staff judged the Wackiest Racer and we used a Mr Townshend special to find the highest top speed.  The winners of the three categories received a trophy and a book voucher and everyone had a great afternoon’s racing.



Thanks go to all Art, Design Technology staff who helped to lay on the event, to Mrs Penegar for devoting her lessons to the production of the cars and to the Tiptoe students who produced the most creative and inventive cars and making the event such a success.

Mr Nicholls

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