Last year the school were successful in receiving kind sponsorship/funding from Durham County Council and also the REECE Foundation to buy Goblin Kart kits. The Goblin karts were dismantled and have been rebuilt and redesigned.   Durham County Council provided sponsorship so that the pupils could work with Mrs Shafto and Mrs Sutherland  to build and design two Goblin Karts. Cummins engineer Amit Kumar supported the teachers with their build. 

This children named their cars 'Broom Broom to the Moon!' and ‘Broom, Broom Cottages!’.  All of the children had the opportunity to make their own unique designs and then these ideas were incorporated into the final designs. The children have been learning about Explorers so a few children designed  space rocket karts after learning about Neil Armstrong. The children’s ideas were all then incorporated into the  Broom Broom to the Moon Karts final design . They made their kart using recycled water bottles, cardboard boxes, carrier bags and an emergency blanket. The kart looked like a space rocket which they hoped would fly around the track.  The other design was taken from the School name ‘Broom Cottages’. The children made Cottages on wheels that turned around using split pins. 

The Goblin Karts are powered by electricity. The cars can be raced against other schools in organised events by Greenpower. The Broom Cottages pupils raced their Goblin kart against other schools at the Croft Race Circuit on the 9th July.  The race involves 2 or 3 cars racing together in a timed event travelling in a straight line, followed by a slalom type course, involving parking skills and then a Sprint race driving around the F24 track with a transponder fitted to the car for timing.  The project is hoping to inspire the young children to become future engineers.