Anglo-Saxon racing game

In computing today Mars were taught how to change costumes,  how to increase and decrease the speed of our character ( a horse) and how to change back to its original costume when it goes through an obstacle.

Emilie working on her Anglo-Saxon horse racing game

Rhys working out how to survive the obstacles

Jia working hard to stay on track

"I think my project is a great game to play if you are learning about the Anglo-Saxons. When making the game, I had some problems such as when my horse went through the river it turned into bubbles but I found out that if I added an instruction to switch to costume 1 it stayed as a horse."  

By Alex

"During computing, we have made an Anglo-Saxon race with horses .We had to make two horses , make an obstacle course and race with them .Avoiding the obstacles was  really hard especially on a small track. I went to help some people with their obstacles." 
by Emilie

Apple Store Visit

20 children from Year 4 found themselves in a fortunate position, when they were selected to attend a workshop at the Apple Store in Bluewater, after their names were pulled from a hat. 

On Thursday 25^th November  we set off for Bluewater and felt like special visitors as we were met outside the store and given fantastic  T-shirts with the Apple Logo on them.  

After putting them on, we went inside the store and spent the morning learning about a new app which can be used on the ipads to support our bookmaking skills - both the writing and the illustrations. We worked as pairs and all wrote a version of Beowulf (as this is the text we are currently reading). 

 After writing and illustrating our stories they were published and shown in the store. We were all given a memory stick to keep, with our work stored on it.       Fffn

  

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Bollywood at Venus assembly

  Class Assembly

 BOLLYWOOD

In our class assembly Olivia, Ava, Sophie,Tia and Ameena have been doing a Bollywood dance from India and we really enjoyed it.

When we performed it to the whole school everyone was watching us it was hard but it was exciting. When we were performing we were wearing dresses, bind-e and bangles. We were dancing to a song called Jai Ho which means the shout of victory. We all had a good time from the minute are foot touched the hall floor.

Are assembly was about topic, ICT and PE. Sophie and Lola made a Prezi about Bollywood and it had lots of description and information about the dance and where it came from.

Haka dance during Venus assembly

  

The Haka dance is a dance that is danced by the Maori tribe in New Zealand; they did it before a fight and in Rugby.

The Haka has been altered through the ages, it is a very easy dance and we learned it. Our role in the assembly was to do a Prezi about the Haka because we wanted to take the chance to stand in front of everybody and show our learning in advance. We learned that speaking in front of everybody is not as easy as it looks,

And you must be careful, but the assembly on the whole was very good because it was something that had never happened in school and was a nice surprise to have an assembly done entirely by class Venus.

Theo: "My role was doing the Haka for our part.We did it for are assembly."

Finley: "My part was doing the Haka in our assembly. I was in the front."

Philip: "I liked the face paint and   the dance."

 George: "I liked it when we performed in front of nearly the whole school I felt really proud."

Philip: "I want to improve is the bit at the end of the dance."

George: "I really liked the assembly because we shared all of our learning to the school. "

Man I feel like a ..... Cowboy

                         The cowboy line dance!

Today we did our class assembly

We did the cowboy line dance from North America. Are roles were first Tyler’s role was to say the prize and dance. Tyler said what we learn. Tyler said we are learning the cowboy linen dance. Next Joanita did the rest of the prize. Then Jamie did dancing with some cowboy line dancers.

We did it because it would be fun and because we would look good doing a dance assembly. No one has ever done a dance assembly before.

We learned how to do a Prezi on a laptop with the help of Miss Goulet and some other people. And then they learned how to do the Bollywood dance, Cowboy line dance and Hakka dance.

We liked it because we had a lot of excise and it was epic. we all liked it. so did the parents and the and the whole school.

What did we like the best?

Molly likes: "I liked it when I threw my hat up in the air at the end of the dance, when everybody was clapping."

Lola likes: "I liked it when me and Sophie were presenting the Bollywood dance

And when my dad recorded me dancing."

Katie likes: "I liked it when I got up in front of everyone and I danced to the cowboy song man I feel like a woman and I really enjoyed it .I am quite proud because I thought that I would be really scared and I wasn’t , it was better than great."

Lewis: "I liked our assembly, because we got to dress up like cowboys, and, we got to listen to music and sing them in the end."

Harrison: "I really liked our assembly because we learned really fun stuff and I really enjoyed our assembly. In our assembly, I was a cowboy I really liked the song, man I feel like a women."

                                 

By          Molly, Katie and Lola, Lewis and Harrison

  

Avoid Grendel

Today we are doing Scratch as part of a special activity.

It was difficult to do it because you had to draw the sprite but it was fun.
It was easy because you could go to the one with the book on it and click on it and it will show you some  pictures.

During this period, I tried my game in order to see if it was working. In my game Grendel with try to catch Beowulf, use the arrows to escape from Grendel.

I am really proud of this game and I hope you like it too.

Maisie, class Mars

We have enjoyed reading Varjak Paw by SF Said and have learnt a lot about the behaviour and needs of a cat, especially one living on the streets . To further our understanding, we invited an educational representative from Cats Protection into class Mars and Venus to learn more about how difficult life can be, being a street cat. As souvenirs of Louisa Beyer's visit, we were given cat masks to decorate and a quiz booklet all themed around cats.

All around the world with class Mars

During our topic lessons we have been working collaboratively to research a country using the internet. We have presented this information,using power point. To increase its effectiveness and appeal to our intended target audience, we have learned how to add in hyperlinks, animations and transitions, as well as change font colour,size and style.
Here are a few for you to enjoy.

This one was created by James and Esther in class Mars.

.......and this one was created by Emilie and Grace who take us on a tour of Germany

......and finally Luca and Zuby's journey around Greece.

Discovering the world one Prezi at a time.

Class Venus have made Prezis which enabled them to explore new media to extend what they could achieve when presenting information.

During our topic period as our All around the World research we searched the World Wide Web to find information about a specific country.

We learned how to insert photos and videos as well as use for the first time the online software Prezi.com


1. Egypt by Jamie and Molly
2. Russia by Katie and Theo
3. Portugal by Lewis and Tilly

We have been learning how to program a game using the software Scratch. We used a variety of tools to create a program. 

Every Monday during the afternoon, we go to the ICT suite and work on our game. 

There are two links for you to enjoy two different games. 

From class Mars, the first one is a Baseball game created by Emilie. 

From class Venus, the second link is a game on a beach created by Lola. 

The two ladies tried their game first in order to make sure it works. 


Hope you like them :)