Happy New Year, everybody!

What a great start you have all made to your Home Learning this week. Keep up the good work.

Here’s some writing that Nicholas has competed about his favourite Christmas gift. Sounds great fun, Nicholas!

The Gift

For Christmas I got a massive 42.8cm by 22.7cm lime green Lego Technic Land Rover Defender, which I was thrilled about because that was exactly what I had asked for.

 As soon as I unwrapped it, I just wanted to get started on it straight away, but in the end, I started it the next day because we had a lot to do on Christmas day. I wanted that specific Lego set because I have already got a rally car/dune buggy around the same size so I wanted to build another one like that. Once I opened the box, 4 sets of approximately 6 bags fell out of the box onto the table (all full to the brim with Lego pieces) with an instruction manual that had 860 individual steps to build the headlights, gear box, chassis, engine, body work and more!

The finished product was absolutely incredible because if you put it in gear -and only in gear- the crankshaft will spin making the pistons move up and down. When it’s moving, the steering works, the winch can be used and even the front, rear and centre differentials work. Amazingly, all this works without any batteries or anything!