Y3 ICT | West Boldon Primary School

Safer Internet Day 2022

11th February 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

On Tuesday 8th February 2022, children in West Boldon Primary recognised Safer Internet Day.

In their PSHE lessons, they discussed this year’s theme: ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’. Here are some thing they have been doing to recognise and learn about this important day.

Year 1 listened to a story about Digiduck and how to behave kindly online and how to keep ourselves safe. They discussed and sorted out things we should and shouldn’t do online and pretended to be Digiduck and Wise_Owl to help others to know what to do or not do online.

Year 1 children taking part in their SID activity

Watch the video below to see Year 2 play Internet Traffic Light game for internet safety day. If they think an app/website is green (right for them) they can step forward twice, if they’re unsure (yellow) and if they think it is not right for then (red) they stand still.

Children explained why they chose each traffic light for each app/website and how they can be safe online.

Children in Year 3 thought about their online community, and their online world. They learned that their community refers to the people they know in real life, such as friends and family, and their world refers to the people they don’t know in real life, such as celebrities, footballers and Youtubers.

They wrote down 3 people from their community, and 2 people from their world – thinking for each about how they connect with these people online. They then talked about how we communicate with others in many different ways.

As part of Safer Internet Day Year 4 looked at how our actions and words can harm others.
We learned about norms and how our community has lots of norms to help us stay happy and healthy.

In small groups we created a norm that would help us stay safe on the internet. We then signed it to pledge that we would stick to it.

Year 6 read Sita’s story and discussed how they would respond, if they were her, to the different scenarios. They thought about the best ways to keep safe, while also benefit the friendship.

Year 6 's activity for safer internet day

Year 3 trip to OpenZone @ The Word

30th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 travelled to The Word today to visit the staff at OpenZone. They learned the basics of coding using Scratch and made a little Christmas animation. They also used paint to create a Christmas drawing which was then made into their own individual tree decoration.

They were an absolute credit to the school. It was commented upon several times how well mannered they all were and how well behaved. They also produced some AMAZING work. Well done Year 3 😊

Year 3 children working hard at The Word

Have a look at some of our animations below!

Stop-motion animation using plasticine

21st October 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

As part of Year 3’s Dimensions topic, That’s All Folks, the children have been learning about animation through computing, art and history.

They have learnt about different types of animation, how animation started and how it’s developed.

The children have been inspired by our trip to South Shields Museum with Sheila Graber and most recently Wallace and Gromit. They storyboarded and created their own plasticine stop motion using the iPads.

Here are some of our amazing creations!

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2D animations inspired by Sheila Graber

5th October 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 are feeling very INSPIRED after meeting the amazing Sheila Graber earlier this week and learning all about animation.

Today they returned to school and created their own 2D animations in Sheila’s style using the iPads.

Take a look at some of our amazing creations!

Year 3 trip to South Shields Museum

4th October 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 went on their first Essential Learning Experience of the year today when they visited South Shields Museum and Art Gallery to meet and look at the work of local animator Sheila Graber.

This trip was linked to their Dimensions topic – ‘That’s All Folks!’ which focuses primarily on history and computing through the context of film and animation.

During their time in the museum, the children visited the exhibition on Sheila Graber and learned about her life and some of her many accomplishments. They then took part in a workshop where they animated using an iPad and Stop Motion Studio.

Children will then apply this learning on their return to school where they will storyboard their own animations and create them using the same app.

Children in the Sheila Graber exhibition

Children learning how to animate from Sheila

Children watching an animation by Sheila Graber

Here is a video of the outcome of our workshop – what talented animators we have in Year 3!

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Pixar VS Dreamworks

28th September 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

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).

Year 3 children researching about Pixar and Dreamworks

An example of Year 3's work on Pixar and Dreamworks

Animation in Year 3

18th September 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

In Year 3 this week we began our brand new Dimensions topic – That’s All Folks!

It is a history based topic with elements of computing as it’s all about early film and animation! The children are thoroughly enjoying it so far as this week we learned how to make flip books, zoetropes AND stop motion animations.

See below for some of our fabulous examples!

Rainforest animations using Scratch

22nd June 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

This week Year 3 have been working hard on their coding skills using Scratch. They learned how to delete a sprite, add a new sprite, change the backdrop and make the sprites move and change costume.

They thoroughly enjoyed this unit of work and applied their coding knowledge to create some beautiful moving rainforest animations linked to their current topics!

Here are some of the children hard at work. We were extra excited to complete this task as we were able to use some new touch screen laptops which were donated to us very kindly by ASDA.

Children working on the new ASDA laptops to create an animation in Scratch

Press the green flag button below to watch some of our AMAZING animations:

Muscles and joints

23rd October 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

This week in Science we began learning about what makes Usain Bolt so quick as part of our Animals Including Humans topic.

We learned that to run fast we need really strong muscles and to be very physically fit. We discovered that muscles work in pairs to contract and relax, to enable our bodies to move. We also learned about two specific type of joint found in the human body; the ball and socket joint, and the hinge joint.

We then went outside with the iPads and struck a pose, then in small groups we labelled each of the muscles and joints we had used using the Seesaw app.

Take a look at our awesome work below.