Enrichment Opportunities

Safer Internet Day- 10.2.26
Hipsburn celebrated safer internet day today with the focus being 'Smart tech, safe choices – 'Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI'. As a school, we mainly focused on internet safety aspects such as not believing everything we see online, not sharing personal information, asking an adult before using ai/internet and telling a trusted adult if we are worried. Etal and Ford explored okay or not okay uses of ai, sorting statements. Dunstanburgh class participated in the BBC live lesson all about safety and ai. Bamburgh class discussed the theme of safer internet day and used online applications safely in their computing unit. EYFS thought about what we know about technology and thought about what real friends can do and what technology does and how to be sensible and safe with it. A tricky concept but an important one to get right, well done everyone! 
 
Computing / Film Club - May 2025
Computing/film club has been very popular this term. During the first two weeks, children learnt how to create stop motion films. In small groups, they planned out an exciting plot and used lego to make their creations come to life. They then used the app 'Stop motion Studio' to create the films. The second two weeks of the club have been focused on using iMovie to create movie trailers. The children have learnt how to add photos/videos and edit text to create an exciting movie trailer. Well done all! 
 
 
Safer Internet Day 2025
On Tuesday the 11th of February, all of Hipsburn Primary School took part in safer internet day. The focus for 2025 was  ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online.' The whole school demonstrated and reinforced their knowledge of internet safety through a variety of engaging activities. 
In Alnwick Castle class, they looked at different types of technology and discussed how using technology could become unsafe. They then programmed a beebot to complete set instructions. In Bamburgh class, they discussed what to do if they feel unsafe on the internet. In Ford class, they learnt all about scams, how to identify them and what to do if they spot a scam. Ford class also completed a quiz to test their knowledge thinking about scenarios when people may be scammed. They then made internet safety posters on canva, including their top rules for e-safety. In Etal class, the children discussed scams and phishing in depth and made informative leaflets including e-safety facts/rules. Both Ford and Etal joined a BBC bitesize live session about scams and phishing.
A super day full of learning about the internet and staying safe. 
 
Lego League Champions - Year 6 - March 2023
 
Congratulations to our incredible Year 6 team who attended the regional Lego League Tournament on Monday 13th March. We are very proud of their exceptional hard work which was recognised when they were awarded the trophy for winning the innovation project award! 
 
This season’s competition, Super Powered, was all about exploring energy usage: thinking about storage, distribution and usage.
The team worked together to:
• Use and apply the FIRST Core Values and engineering design process to develop robot and Innovation Project solutions.
• Identify and research a problem related to the season theme and then design and create an Innovation Project solution.
• Identify a mission strategy and design, create, and code a robot to complete missions.
• Test, iterate, and improve their Robot Design and Innovation Project.
• Communicate their Robot Design and Innovation Project and demonstrate their robot in the Robot Game.