19 Oct

Year 6 quizmasters at work

This term in Year 6 we have been reading the story “Stay Where You Are and then Leave” by John Boyne. As we near the end of the novel, we have decided to test each other’s knowledge of the story by writing our own quizzes on Purple Mash. Once they have been created, we will be able to share them…

21 Sep

Chrome books in action

There was great excitement this afternoon in Year 6 as everyone signed into our Chromebooks for the first time and used them in our art lesson. We used them to research three artists, from different periods of history, who used the medium of drawing in their work: Michaelangelo, Edward Ardizzone…

27 Mar

Our Final Animations!

Today, we started to create our final animations within our groups. We worked hard to use the skills we had learned to create a more seamless and organised animation, with a steady background and small movements between photographing the scenes. We each had our own roles to ensure that filming ran…

6 Mar

Year 2 Celebrate World Book Day!

Across school today, each year group has enjoyed exploring their learning through Drew Daywalt's wonderful story: The Day the Crayons Quit!

In Year 2, we explored synonyms for the names of the colours, and created colour thesauruses on the computer using the application 'Paint'. We started off…

6 Mar

Book day in Year 3

Today was Scotforth’s book day which was based around the story The Day the Crayons Quit. We wrote a letter to the beige crayon to cheer it up and we made some animations using Scratch.

 

27 Feb

Amateur Animators!

Today we have been designing our characters, writing the plot, and practising our stop-motion animation skills in groups. Within our groups, we each had an important job- controlling Noah, controlling the raindrops, controlling the animals, and camera-person!

We found what we did well within…

20 Feb

Introduction to Animation!

Year 2 started their new unit in Computing: Animation!

We learned how animations are made using a series of still images (pictures) and created our own flipbooks using post-it notes, tracing over the images from the page before, changing one detail a small amount each time.

After that, we…

21 Jan

Morse Code

Today in Computing we have been sending messages using Morse code. We wrote messages to a friend before using light from a torch to send messages. At the end of the lesson we tried using Morse Code Keyer online. It was really tricky.

21 Jan

Circuit Repairs!

Click the links below to take you to the virtual circuit building labs!

 

Wirers

http://www.echalk.co.uk/Science/physics/circuitBuilder/circuitBuilder.html

 

Repairers

‪Circuit Construction Kit: DC - Virtual Lab‬ (colorado.edu)

 

Here are the children having a go at being…

17 Jan

iCell!

Year 6 worked hard during their first lesson of iData where they were introduced to spreadsheets. The children learned how data is inputted into spreadsheets via cells and practiced navigating through spreadsheets, solving problems and cracking codes!

14 Jan

Sending messages using Semaphore

In computing we are learning to encode, send and decode messages in our Cryptography unit. Using flags is difficult and it was like learning a whole new language.