The students at Lindfield Public School are earning a reputation for being a robotic lot.

For the second year running the school has claimed national honours in the RoboCup Junior Australia Open Dance Competition, an event that requires students to design, construct and program robots to complete a choreographed routine.

The school’s Aquabots team claimed second place with its act set to The Blue Danube, while the Mission Impossible team came fifth with their robots performing to Madonna’s most recent hit, 4 minutes.

The teams were drawn from Lindfield Public’s After School Robotics Club, which has run for the past two years.

Lindfield Public Year 5 teacher Sue Hiblen, who runs the class with teacher Peter Brock, said the program gave Years 5 and 6 students the opportunity to extend their design and programming skills.

“It’s a lot of fun – they don’t see it as work,” Mrs Hiblen said.

Lindfield Public principal Craig Oliver said the school’s robotics focus would widen to include Kindergarten to Year 4.

“The cooperative and problem-solving skills the children develop … [are] skills that will be of benefit to them throughout their lives,” Mr Oliver said.