Class 10 had a great day today, recording and editing their own podcasts.
The children have spent their literacy lessons this week planning and writing a script for their podcast to interview the witch from our class book, “The Lost Happy Endings”.
This morning they learnt how to record their interview, then this afternoon they learned how to edit, cut, and split, as well as add music and sound effects.
We can’t wait to share our finished podcasts.
This week, our Afterschool LEGO League Club for Years 1, 2 & 4 at West Boldon Primary had a FIN-tastic opportunity to dive deep into the world of marine life!
We were thrilled to welcome Jillian Morris, the founder of @Sharks4Kids, for an exciting video call where our young ocean explorers learned all about sharks, their importance to the ecosystem, and how we can help protect our oceans.
The knowledge and inspiration from this session are now being brought to life in our LEGO League Submerged challenge—where our teams are designing builds based on what they’ve learned about ocean conservation.
Thank you, Sharks4Kids, for helping our children become ocean advocates—one LEGO brick at a time!
Last week, our Year 4 students had an amazing time with the OpenZone exploring Lego Spike! They worked together to code, debug and build exciting projects, developing their teamwork and problem-solving skills along the way. It was fantastic to see their creativity and resilience in action!
A huge thank you to OpenZone for an inspiring hands-on experience! We can’t wait to apply what we’ve learned back in the classroom!
Class Ten, completed their computing work in the current class topic (Lightening Speed) by creating their own representation of how an email travels across the internet. The children were able to explain how computers can be connected together, how routers direct the information to the correct computer and how information – in this instance an email- will be “cut up” put in to separate packets to travel quickly before being reassembled at its destination.
Class 10 spent a morning exploring Lego Spike. They followed instructions to build the different models and then learnt how to code a programme to make the models move, make sound or how to use sensors.
As part of their new topic “Lightning Speed”, the Year 4 children have been learning about networks.
We went on a network hunt around the school to see how all of our devices are connected to the main server.
We then used drama to recreate a LAN (local area network) where children took on different roles in a network. The string represented the wires and cables. The laptop was not connected via wires because it is a wireless connection.
We simulated different tasks such as printing a document, opening a webpage and editing a document. Well done, Year 4!
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.
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.
Today Year 4 started their new Dimensions topic all about Technology and the internet. They talked about how humans ‘stay connected’ and they were amazed when they had to create a timeline of technology and transport.
The teachers and children were shocked at how old some things were and the children couldn’t believe that the World Wide Web is only 30 years old!
Year 4 have spent the last week creating their own stop motion animations using the iPads in their computing lessons. Have a look at their wonderful creations!
Year 4 started their new Computing topic this week: Can pictures move? Here, they created their own fantastic flipbooks!
Watch the videos below to see two amazing examples:
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