On our last day as 1/2B, we built challenge runs for a Sphero mini robot in two teams and this is how we got on… 🤖
Tag: ICT
Y5 showcase ICT excellence at a VEX robotics event 🤖
Team Rockingham won an excellence award for their collaborative approach at the VEX event today ⭐️ @THEAMRC #AMRCSTEM
ICT skills continue to shine in VEX club 🤖
VEX club progress continues as we prepare for a local event next week 🤖
1/2B practise coding in ICT 💻
Moving fish and airport control were no problem for 1/2B children! 💻
Communicating well using ICT skills in 1/2B 📧
Using an email simulation, 1/2B received and replied to a set of emails today which were helping a character called Anna to prepare for a seaside visit. ⛱
Y5 use ICT Problem solving skills in VEX club 🦾
RJI Team VEX are up and running with our first build session this lunchtime 🦾
Willow Tree Warriors introducing our vlog 💻
Welcome to our introductory vlog – The Willow Tree Warrior team at RJI have been monitoring computing chat on the playground and bring you their latest news and advice… 💻
Willow Tree Warriors go live👩💻
Your Willow Tree Warriors are listening on the playground to find out what current ICT issues our children are having in school and at home. You will notice our shiny, red badges that show we are listening and willing to help 👩💻
Y1/2 love using geoboards for shape making 🔴🔷🟨🟣🔶
Y1/2 loved using different geoboards for a shape making task 🟣🟨🔷🔴🔶
How many squares? Interactive challenge in KS1 🟩🟥🟦
How many squares? Ks1 children took up an interactive challenge to practise their problem solving skills 🟦🟥🟩
KS1 enjoy a digital author visit with Catherine Rayner on World Book Day 💻📖
KS1 enjoyed lots of lovely stories and illustrating tips from the lady author herself. We will be able to have a try at drawing lions and giraffes with our new skills…📚📖
KS1 have a new book read by the author live 📚🦈
To celebrate World Book Day and World Wildlife Day, Y1/2B and Y2S heard The shark Who Barked live in an exclusive webinar with the Born Free Foundation 📚🦈
Online readers enjoying World Book Week in 1/2B 👩🏫
Children in 1/2B tried a safe, recommended selection of web-based resources today. This was to engage with ebooks and read along videos during our reading time 💻📚
Rock-on at breakfast time with 1/2B 🎸🤘
1/2B rocked up early for a times tables breakfast event, dressed as their avatars 🎸🤘
Safer internet day in 1/2B 💻
We used a video as our P4C stimulus today as part of Safer Internet Day https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/jessie-and-friends-videos/ 💻
1/2B using graphics tools in ICT 💻
1/2B children practised using paint tools, then inserting interesting backgrounds and shapes that were linked to our learning topic 💻
Colour scavengers going bananas in 1/2B after school club 🍌
Today 1/2B had a colour scavenger hunt and a colour code challenge. Afterwards, we needed a quick conga line (to a banana song) before testing out our new 1 minute maths app 🍌🍌🍌
Y1 Virtual Library update for Spring Term 📖
Use our Y1 virtual library of recommended reading books, where you can read along at home 📖
Y2 Virtual library update for Spring Term 📖
Use our Y2 virtual library of recommended reading books, where you can read along at home 📖
KS1 cart👀ners go digital 🖥
In our last club session, we used an online platform to make cart👀n strips with backgrounds, characters and speech bubbles 🖥
Cart👀n clubbers flip out in KS1
In cart👀n club, We had lots of fun learning about the early Disney cartoon ‘Steamboat Willie’ and how it was made.
Eye witness interviews are big news in 2WB 👀
As part of our topic learning about The Great Fire of London, the children used their interviewing techniques to make a news report video. After carefully thinking about suitable witnesses and questions to ask, they worked as a team to record each other as roving reporters. Here are a couple of examples: Children’s news reporting […]
Dotty or square in 2WB? 🔺🔸
We have been using geo boards to draw examples of basic 2D shapes. We then moved on to drawing shapes, using a set of instructions: Draw a large rectangle on squared paper or dotted paper. Draw a square inside the rectangle. Draw a triangle below the rectangle. Draw a pentagon that is bigger than the […]
ICT Christingle preparation work in 2WB 💻
As part of our understanding of British Values, we acknowledge that not everyone will celebrate Christingle or Christmas. Children who do not celebrate this festival had an alternative task, to create an image of what this time of year means for them 👍🏻😀
2WB go live with Antarctica ❄️
Yesterday we attended a live webinar all about Antarctica – as part of #AntarcticaWeek Festival 2020 (@GlacierThwaites). We loved learning facts about what animals live there and how to keep warm. Thank you Mrs Burkinshaw for organising this for us! 🐧🐳🦭❄️❄️❄️❄️
2WB re-telling Tinga Tanga tales electronically 💻
We used story maps to help us retell ‘How Giraffe became so tall’ Using Chromebooks, we made an electronic version of our story. Children were working between home and school to complete the full 15 parts to their Tinga Tanga tale. Amelia’s E-book: https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjU4NTc1MyZzZz05YTUwYjE1YjYyNTM0ZmQ5NGIxM2RhZTFmYzQ2NjAxMg== Carter’s E-book: https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjU5NjMzNiZzZz03ZGVjZmRmMzIyYzkyYTU0NGE3MTgxMDAyMjI5NGYwMg== Darcie’s E-book: https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjU4NTc3MyZzZz02YTUwOTBlNmIxYjdhMGNhMjBmZGM3YzczOTM5NzgzNQ== Grace’s E-book: https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjU4NTc3NyZzZz03NjMyYjVhYjRjNDI3NjE2M2FjZjNmOWE0MWQwMzViOA== Khalifa’s E-book: […]
Digital footprints in 2WB🦶🏻
A digital footprint is the trail we leave when using ICT. We did an online quiz to answer questions about the trails we leave through digital tasks like emails and saving pictures. Do you have a digital trail? Try googling your name…
Guided reading with a difference 📖👓
We had an amazing virtual reading group today 👍🏻😀 Can you guess what our story was about? We read Goldilocks and the clever plan – making predictions and answering bug questions just like this one. Have you read any books online this week?
📧Emailing Twanda in 2WB
Today we continued to practice our emailing skills. We safely replied to messages from a new friend called Twanda, who asked us about our celebrations. We can now reply with emojis and symbols, attached pictures and our own drawings. We messaged Twanda about birthday parties, eating pizza with our families and decorating with balloons. What […]
📧 E-Mailing Barnaby Bear in Y2WB 📧
Today we picked up some new ICT skills. The children had to safely open and respond to virtual emails from Barnaby Bear. They even managed to send a picture attachment! We can’t wait to find out who will be emailing us next week…