04/05/2017 Newsround

And the new space fabric that could help astronauts!

Jasmine says they're good for calming but Elle says they're

Yes, we're taking a closer look at these things - fidget spinners!

Well I've been looking into the toy that everyone's talking about.

Fidget spinners are taking over playgrounds.

The small toys have become the latest must have gadget.

My spinner is a glow-in-the-dark one.

You get relaxed when it spins and it's really satisfying.

You can have challenges with other people

and you can trade and you can customise them as well.

These fidget spinners have got a rather

They were originally designed to help children

with certain conditions like autism deal with stress.

But these little things are causing big

Sometimes children, they get distracted but...

And they don't concentrate on their work, they try

and rush it so they can play with it and they don't produce much quality

They've since been banned in a number of schools but here in

Manchester, teachers are a bit more relaxed.

They're happy for kids to play with them but only

You can play with them at lunchtime and play

time but are not allowed to play with them during class.

We have them banned in class and around the school

environment and you are only

allowed them at break time and lunch.

We are really happy to have kids enjoying

the fidget spinners on

the playground, we're seeing them get a lot of fun,

motor skills but we have asked that they put them away as soon

as they enter the building so they're not a

distraction in the lessons because we found children were more

interested in watching each other doing

tricks than watching the

But spinners only cost a couple of pounds but some websites

have started to charge a lot more as the popularity increases.

Online videos showing off tricks have had millions

of views - until the next big thing in playground,

it looks like that the fidget spinner will be around until at

We want to hear from you, go online to tell us if they have the band at

your school and what you think of them. We would love to hear what you

think. I am going to put this down. Also today - some of you may have

noticed your schools have been But it's NOT for the general

election we've been talking about. Adults in Scotland, Wales

and parts of England are voting for the politicians

who look after local There are also elections

for some new mayors. The UK-wide vote that'll decide

on the government and prime minister There's more on the general

election and how it works Lots of you learn to code at school,

but have you ever wondered how you'd do it if you couldn't see

the computer screen clearly? Four visual impaired children have

been helping to create a new way to learn coding where you don't

need to use a screen. Each pod is an instruction

in the programme. It's called Project Torino,

blind people can do coding at school, but the whole

class can do it. We found a number of kids wanted

to code but they found it difficult to see the programming

languages which are on-screen, they were too small, they were coloured,

but kids who couldn't see at all there was no way for

them to participate. It's something physical

so you can feel it, that sort Before, every time there

was a computer lesson it was always in my head,

it's computing, there's Now I feel really

confident with coding and it's something I can do

in a certain specific way. Staying with space -

scientists are counting these rare birds, Northern Royal albatrosses,

using satellite images! otherwise it's hard to know how many

there are as they only nest on tiny It's the first time any species

on Earth has been counted This is a new space fabric

that's been designed by engineers at the US

space agency, NASA. It could help astronauts

in the future. This is a special metallic fabric

that NASA has designed to use Acting as a way to

control temperatures. That's all from the team,

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