At The End Of The Assembly - featuring The Chins

ONE HUNDRED POSTS!

This is one of our favourite things this year - The Alan Taylor Crash Pod Challenge! Even a little bit of Alan is yummy!

We used this video in our Assembly but it was a bit longer then because we included personal bits. Did you like our video? We are doing more D&T with Mr Short at the moment.

Class 5

Mr Short writes: an especially big thank you to Andy Stanton for sending the children signed art from his latest book. Well done to the children for making 100 posts.

Class 2

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Angles & LOGO

For all those pupils who still want to practise their ICT and Maths here are some interesting LOGO commands for you to try.

Well done this week, you drew really precise angles in your Maths books and followed it up with some fantastic LOGO programming!

Different

As I drove into the car park at the supermarket in London. It looked terribly different; the doors were off their hinges and were squeaking like an out of tune violin on note E sharp. The windows were smashed like grass, which had just been mowed on a summer’s day in the morning.
I searched briefly to find a parking space along the ripped road. I couldn’t see a living person around in the car park; it had been the easiest parking yet. I could hear a few tills beeping from inside the supermarket, like lasers beaming down to Earth. As Big Ben struck 12 the sky began to darken. I crept along the road to the squeaking doors of the supermarket.
I entered; gripped with fear.
There were a few people in the fruit section (where I was), I turned to the diseased pears…
Then I heard a cracking sound behind me, the diseased fruit started to fall off the rack. I turned around again to find a hole; behind there was endless black!
Black!
Black!
Crash went the fruit falling to the floor.
Crash.
Crash.
Crash.
As pears fell into the hole, they disappeared faster that the light, I clung on a fruit rack for dear life.
It was no use!

I got pulled in…

Daniel Pickles on Mars

And then it happened, the rocky red ground began to quietly crack. Suddenly the flaming red ground broke and Daniel Pickles our hero fell into some Martians’ unfriendly head quarters inside the red planet Mars.
He saw a N.A.S.A lazer gun on the floor, lying in front of him, filled to the top with Robinson’s non added sugar apple & blackcurrant Ribena (a deadly drink to Martians). As he picked it up he thought of braveness and royalty.

Two Martians with smooth black skin, burning red eyes, rusty old gladiator helmets and greasy old fur coats had come racing around the corner to investigate the noise.
With a
ZAP!
ZAP!
ZAP!
The two Martians fell to the ground.
Dead.
Unmoving
Silent.
Daniel Pickles was safe, but not for long…
The emergency alarm started ringing, a voice called out, “All Martians report to the control room, Daniel Pickles is here!” Daniel ran, ran for his life. The Martians were a few metres from him.
BANG!
They tried to shoot him, Daniel looked back and then…
SMACK!
“Oh great, a dead end!” The Martians had caught up with him. A Commander came up to him and said, “Drop your weapon now Pickles!” ….
© 2008

Class 2 EXCLUSIVE!

Class 2 have been studying Kenya as part of their topic work on Africa. They created some amazing Art and politely visited Class 5 to invite us to take pictures. We were happy to go and practise using a digital camera!

Class 5

The Kirifuri Waterfall At Mt. Kurokami In Shimotsuke Province

The Iron Man & Class 5

Earlier this month Class 5 began studying imaginary worlds by looking at different settings and comparing them to each other.

Below is a sample of work for those parents who are unable to see the children's display work in class. This work was a response to passages taken from The Iron Man by Ted Hughes and The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe by C.S Lewis.

Two pupils used a digital camera to take pictures of paintings inspired by those settings.

Down the cliff the Iron Man came toppling, head over heels.

CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!

From rock to rock, snag to snag, tumbling slowly. And as he crashed and crashed and crashed
His iron legs fell off.
His iron arms broke off, and the hands broke off the arms.
His great iron ears fell off and his eyes fell out.
His great iron head fell off.
All the separate pieces tumbled, scattered, crashing, bumping, clanging, down on to the rocky beach far below.
A few rocks tumbled with him.
Then
Silence.
Only the sound of the sea, chewing away at the edge of the rocky beach, where the bits and pieces of the Iron Man lay scattered far and wide, silent and unmoving.

Only one of the iron hands, lying beside an old, sand-logged washed-up seaman’s boot, waved its fingers for a minute, like a crab on its back. Then it lay still.

While the stars went on wheeling through the sky and the wind went on tugging at the grass on the cliff-top and the sea went on boiling and booming.

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen.
Night passed.
Just before dawn, as the darkness grew blue and the shapes of the rocks separated from each other, two seagulls flew crying over the rocks.

Decorations

This week the children used the laptops to design their own Christmas paper, adding images and text however they saw fit. Next, they cut these designs into strips and made paper chains that stretched around the room. Other designs with larger images were used to create lanterns as presents for other classes. I was left to hang the rest as instructed! The children had complete control and Christmas in Class 5 feels very personal.

Mr Short

LOGO

Today in Maths we are using LOGO to draw polygons! Accuracy is the key, one little mistake and you will be scratching your heads.

The picture above was created by defining a circle. First type:
to circle
repeat 360[fd 1 rt 1]

Now type in circle to test your instructions. Did the circle draw okay?

Next, use the circle to draw a repeating pattern by entering these instructions:

to sunflower
circle
pu
rt 321
pd
sunflower
end

These just happen to be the instructions we tested this afternoon - what we were really interested in was creating regular polygons, but we couldn't resist repeating them to make interesting patterns! We might make Christmas decorations...

Please ask for permission before installing LOGO at home!

Mr Short

Keywords:
pu - pen up
pd - pen down
fd - forward
rt - right turn
lt - left turn
repeat
end

You can also change the background colour and the colour of the pen! Try going to the help menu and clicking on demo - LOGO can produce some tricky designs.

ICT for Monday afternoon

Step 1: change all of the text to black and check the spelling

Step 2: change the font for the four sentences below

This would be an amazing fint for a ghost story

This would be an amazing fint for something about Art

This would be an amazing fint for a poem about flowers

This would be an amazing fint for a sign about handwriting

Step 3: insert a picture
Insert a small picture of a flower below (resize if necessary).

Step 4: use synonyms and columns

Use synonyms to change these 3 words then put them into 3 columns

Tired

Difficult

Storm

Step 5: find and replace

Use ctrl + f to change amazing to excellent

World Premiere - Making Sandwiches

Below is just a taste of what Class 5 & Class 1 got up to on Wednesday. The pictures used are a small selection from Class 5's camera monitor that day..

Find & Replace

Think about any targets that you may have from last week (read my comments in your ICT books first).

Please copy the two nursery rhymes below and paste into Microsoft Word. Your aim is to use Find & Replace to change the mistakes (the shortcut is Ctrl + f).

Change the font to Garamond, size 16 and black. Choose an appropriate picture to insert for both rhymes.

James and Joan

James and Joan went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
James fell down and broke his crown
And Joan came tumbling after


Harold Dumpty

Harold Dumpty sat on a wall
Harold Dumpty had a great fall
All the king’s horses
And all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Harold together again

Andrew Goldsworthy & Me

I read about Andy Goldsworthy, so I decided to make a collection. In class I used some pictures I took to make a video.

Class 5

(I'm really proud of this pupil - she has used ICT & Art to inspire everyone in class including myself. Mr Short)

ICT: Monday afternoon

Below you will find some information all about the author Andy Stanton.

Your aim today is to use a spellcheck, but you will need other skills.

Your task:

1. Copy the information below (including the title)



2. Paste the information into Microsoft Word



3. Use a spellcheck (remember that some words might not show up in a spellcheck so read it to see if it makes sense)



4. Change the font to size 14 Trebuchet



5. Change the colour to black, add your name and print out.

Andy Stanton

Andy Stanton liives in London but he stedied English at Oxford until they threw him out. Hea has ben a stand-up comedian, a film script reeader, a cartoonist and lots of other fings. He has many intorests, but best of all he likes cartoons, books and mewsic (even jazz). One day he’d like to live in New York or Berlin becaose he likes to be different. His favourite saying is ‘Good evening’ and his favourite word is ‘captain’. Andy has now written more than onne book, but less than ten. We are reading ‘You’re a bad man, Mr Gum’ in cllass.