This Tuesday, over 50 pupils from Broughton Manor Preparatory School and Milton Keynes Preparatory School came to Northampton High School to take part in a Design & Technoloy and Science enrichment day.

The Years 5 and 6 spent some time in each department learning about various aspects of the subjects and were also given the opportunity to make some products to take home with them including a desk tidy, jacket potato mouse and a cushion.
One of the most popular aspects of the day was the Bloodhound SSC (Supersonic Car) workshop.

We have received this report from the teachers and children at Joy Lane Primary School (above) - they won our Primary Engineer competition and received a visit from BLOODHOUND SSC driver, Wing Commander Andy Green ...

BLOODHOUND Ambassador Chris Henley makes a second visit to Matravers School in Wiltshire.

This was a return journey to Matravers School in Westbury, Wiltshire for another STEM evening.  My visit in October 2011 must have been a success as I had been invited back!  This time I had written a short Powerpoint presentation which I had intended to display on my stand.  However, Miss Venter, who had invited me, suggested that I played it on the large screen over the stage in the main hall and there it ran continuously for the entire evening.

This was a different sort of session from my usual ones, in that it was at a comprehensive school, my first, and it was in the evening.

My eleventh Bloodhound Roadshow was a return to my grandson’s school, St John’s Primary School, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, but this time to work with year six.  The day followed the usual format of Bloodhound Powerpoint presentation followed by building, testing and running the balloon-powered cars.  This was the first time that I had used the new design of the model car and when cut out and folded it certainly looked better that the two previous designs.

Derby College marked National Apprenticeship Week by featuring the Show Car on the turntable of the historic Roundhouse, a recently renovated locomotive shed that is the stunning centre piece of college life. Over two days, with the help of sponsor, Protocol National, local primary and secondary school children were wowed by the car, the presentations, the Intel Atom animation played on a large screen at full volume firing their imaginations and of course the balloon car challenge to win a Bloodhound baseball cap and a bag of Protocol National’s goodies.

My grandson attends St John’s and I recently asked his class teacher if she would like me to visit with my Bloodhound Roadshow.  She said that she would and so on July 20th I set off for Trowbridge.

One of the teachers at St Nicholas’s invited me to run a Bloodhound morning with her class of year 4, 5 and 6 children.

Students from Alkborough Primary School, Scunthorpe recently took part in a BLOODHOUND SSC awareness day.  Stuart Bontoft, formally of Corus, introduced pupils of Key Stage 2 to the technical and performance aspects of the car and led a session where the pupils made and raced “Balloon Cars”.  The pupils were impressed that there was so much maths and science involved in the build and racing the balloon powered cars and that by making alterations to the design and size and number of balloons really effected the performance, a true Engineering Adventure!

Hello Dawn,

My name is Chris Blunt. I'm from 7th Dunstable Cub troop, I met you at Stoneleigh Park festival, and you gave me some car kits for the cubs to build their own Bloodhound car.

The cub group really enjoyed making and racing the cars and if you get any more kits like this it would be much appreciated if you was to send some to us.