Year 4 have received a visit from the police this week. They came to talk to them about being safe online as part of their current topic. The children had to guess the age limits on games, they discussed their digital footprint, took part in a quiz and had a chance to ask questions.
Maybe we have a few budding officers of the future in our class!
As part of our Dimensions topic, “That’s All Folks”, Year 3 are learning about animations.
Using their computing skills they worked in pairs to log onto the chromebooks, open Google Classroom and research films created by Pixar and Dreamworks. The children can now name so many films made by each animation studio! This also gave them lots of ideas for their own animations which they will plan and create later in the topic.
We also discovered the first fully computerised animation – Toy Story (we all love that film).
On Friday some of our staff and children began using the TV studio equipment we are currently renting from the OpenZone to film our very first Subject Ambassador video!
Over the course of the year, our chosen Subject Ambassadors will work with our Curriculum Lead (Miss Swales), Subject Ambassador Leads (Miss Wilkinson and Miss Ingoe) and resident film expert (Mr Mills) to talk about their chosen subject, their favourite things about the subject, the topics they have covered, and the skills they have learnt during their time at West Boldon.
Here are the Computing Subject Ambassadors having their turn under the spotlight!
Video coming soon…
Celebrating the end of another wonderful week at West Boldon! Our Friday afternoon assemblies are always a treat to see and hear all about the children who have worked hard all week. Here are this weeks winners!
Year One have been back in The Secret Garden this week. We made a hedgehog village out of bricks and wood and we each made a clay hedgehog to take home for our own garden. We then picked some sunflower seeds out of one of our dead sunflowers, we will replant them next Spring. We also loved using the power drill to make a hanging bug hotel.
Year 4 have been learning all about tempo. They discussed the meaning of fast and slow before comparing 4 pieces of music and grading them by Tempo.
They listened to a metronome and practiced clapping to the beat. Then played a few rounds of follow the leader with their musical instruments.
They also became composing champions when they chose our own tempo and instruments to create mini pieces of music. They had a great time!
Class 8 are thoroughly enjoying their weekly drumming lessons with Mr Bird! Here they are performing altogether.
As part of Year 3’s 3D PSHE unit, they are learning about e-Safety. Today they discussed the importance of privacy and keeping our personal information safe.
In this lesson they had to write down a secret in ‘invisible ink’ on a post it note (using their finger!) and put them in the secrets jar. They then imagined how they would feel if the jar was stolen!
This led on to a great discussion about what things we should keep to ourself online, and how to keep ourselves and our ‘secrets’ and personal information safe from harm.
Year 1 are following a scheme called ‘squiggle while you wiggle’ which helps children develop their gross and fine motor skills. Here they are practicing their up, down, side and cross over movements.
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