Blog by Tag: Computing

We have had a busy week making pizza, we have completed all kinds of challenges including improving our skills using the track pad dragging and dropping to make digital pizza.  The real thing was much tastier, we all improved our skills using food preparation tools, we chopped, grated, mixed,…

Year 1 have made a great start developing their computing skills. They have been learning how to log on to the school laptops and have been developing their keyboard and mouse skills.  Even the easy level of the touch typing game was tricky but everyone tried their best, we are getting better at…

I thought you might like to see the display of the children’s super work from our plants topic. There was so much beautiful work that I had to make little boxes so everyone could see all of their great work. The children should feel really proud when they see their work in the hall.

Here is a…

We know we will have to wait a long time until our sunflowers grow and so we decided to create our own.  We were inspired by Van Gough to try using thick paint and adding texture by scratching in patterns.  We also tried other techniques, we used water colour, wax crayon and pastels.  We talked…

Over the last few weeks we have been caring for and observing our seeds germinating and growing. They all germinated at different times and grew different amounts even though we all planted the same seeds in the same way.  We planted some of our bean seeds in plastic bags so we could watch the…

We have been exploring plants this week. Learning the names of the different parts of the plant. It was another opportunity for us to have another practise at using the iPads to present information digitally. We took photographs and created a labelled diagram. Then we carefully planted the flowers…

Year 5 had the most amazing first animation lesson.  Everyone really enjoyed the lesson and we can't wait to make our sprites move around more next week! keep checking on Fridays to see the progress we are making!  

The children really enjoyed getting outside and exploring the grounds looking for plants with Mrs Bartlett. The children worked with a buddy and photographed plants and then made a picture collage on the iPad of all of the plants that they saw.  We were surprised just how many different plants we…

We have been researching the movement of the Sun, Moon and Earth as well as investigating how people first realised the earth was in fact round!  The children have found this topic fascinating!  ☀️

We have been learning about place value, seeing how many tens and ones make up a number.  We have been playing place value basket ball to help us practise, why not have a go at home. 
 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball
 

You could practise making groups…

We have been developing our computing skills creating firework art, we needed to change the brush size and colour to create the picture.

As you may of heard from the children, we have created our very own Year1 version of the song Wonderful World. The children have really worked hard to think of what they love about the world, and what makes it wonderful. Each child has drawn, helped to write and sung this beautiful song, and I am…