Year 2 GATE group

Four students from each Year 2 class were fortunate to be able to join a group working with Mr Gover on a Friday morning. They were learning about electronics, wires, batteries, circuits and even made a musical keyboard out of carrots!

Here is a link if you would like to see a little of what they got up to.

Year 2 Electronics

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