Year R - The Hungry Caterpillar
In Year R, we are currently looking at caterpillars and are lucky enough to have our own class caterpillars growing in the classrooms. During our computing lesson this week we looked at the story of the Hungry Caterpillar and drew our own pictures of the Caterpillar. We also used green screen…
Year R - Stop Motion
Our Year R pupils had their first attempts at #stopmotionanimation today using iPads and toys from the classroom. Here are some of their examples. pic.twitter.com/s1SgsYHQA9
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Incredible Edible Tree Planting
Our pupils are currently working on planting apple trees in the field at Greenbank with @IncEdNetwork https://t.co/j1JPeFkpc2
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Tree planting time lapse pic.twitter.com/jxoNEiqJms
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HPL Day @ Rooksdown
Last week, we held two #HPLedu days at our Rooksdown Campus. As part of the activities, pupils worked in cross-year groups to retell the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff via @GoogleForEdu Toontastic app. Here are a few of the finish products. @HPLedu pic.twitter.com/xgGZoj7gT0
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Christmas
Here is a selection of activities for the Christmas holidays. Check back regularly for more updates!
Google Santa Tracker
Google Santa tracker allows you to play a variety of games and on Christmas Eve updates to allow you to track Santa's progress throughout his night of delivering…
Hour of Code
Across the school, we have been taking part in the Hour of Code. Pupils in KS1 and Lower KS2 were taught about algorithms through a computing dance party which you can see clips of in the video below. Pupils across the school have also used the Code.org website to practice their coding in either…
Year R Photo Taking Activity
This week Year R have been exploring the school grounds with iPads and taking photos of various things around the school. Here is a slideshow with some of the photos taken today:
Halloween Poems
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been working on Halloween related activities in Computing with pupils using their skills on Google Slides to move words onto a Halloween background. This presented the challenge of limited word choices and being unable to add new words the pupils had to work…
Y3 Binary Art
Across the school we have been learning how to use binary code within our Computing lessons.
In Year 3, we created artwork using the binary code for the letters of our names. Here are some examples of our work:
Y5 Space Virtual Field Trip
On Tuesday, Year 5 experienced a Virtual Field Trip using the Skype in the Classroom scheme to connect the year group with the Intrepid Sea, Air, Space Museum in New York City!
During the call, we were connected with the museum and shown around the exhibits such as the Space Shuttle Pavilion…