ICT Curriculum Evening Feedback

Thank you to everyone who attended the school yesterday to share in our ICT Focus Week.
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Year 3

Year 3 were making a picture of all their vehicles and used the smart board to make the big picture and they drew some pictures on the computer.

reception

In Reception they were using ICT in different ways by practising their alphabet; they whispered the letters to each other and to the teacher.
They also were counting the number of shapes and then put them with their number.
On the Smart board Mrs Carter showed them how to join the letters.
Mrs Carter had been drawing on her whiteboard trying to give the children an idea to win the robotic guinea pig. The guinea pig is a robotic pet which they could win and have it in your classroom for a few weeks and then they can take it home.

Year 2 Bee Bots

4 children from Year 5 went to visit Year 2, In Miss Swain's classroom they were looking at Bee Bots. First they had to plan on a whiteboard where they wanted the Bee Bots to go, when they had finished planning they programed their Bee Bots. If they didn't succeed, getting to the baby owls at the end of the track, they would have to plan and program all over

If they succeeded to get to the baby owl they would move on to a harder place to get to, now they need to get to plop the owl.

We have enjoyed ICT focus week and we hope year 2 did too.

Written by ellie,lucy(5B), Javed,Taiga(5K)

Year 4 in the Rainbow Room

Year 5 have been taking pictures of year 4 doing dot art. They take pictures of each other and put it onto word and go to paint and try to copy it with dots of colour.
They were working with Mrs Scott in the rainbow room. There was 3 groups and each working well. There pictures weren’t exactly perfect but they were good enough to go on the blog.

Lighting Deck in the Hall

Some members of Year 4, 5 and 6 spent time this morning working out how to use the computerised lighting system in the hall. The system is quite complicated but they were soon creating difference lighting scenes and fading between them. We hope that this will be available to be demonstrated tomorrow evening.

This afternoon we visited Mrs DeMetz and asked her 6 questions about ICT week such as:
How does she use ICT in her job? - She said: School emails, Electronic diary, Student data and writing letters.
What do you enjoy most? - She most enjoys student data because she likes looking back at all the students.
Her talent in ICT is all-round.
By Sophie, Megan, max and Gabriel.

Wednesday 14th November

5K and 5B have been going around the school, and have visited 3B. They have been intervening them and asking them questions about what they have been doing in ICT week. They have been studying stop animations and drawing animations on laptops. They have created some really good animations based on the book the hodgeheg. They were working brilliantly together! Every one cant wait to see their PowerPoint on Thursday evening!

Wednesday 14 November, what are year 1 doing today?

In year 1

On the interactive white board year one were playing a game in which they had to add up the total amount of money to buy the toy that was on the board. Max and Harry said this game was really, really good.

Some other children were experimenting with the calculators, pressing random numbers seeing who got the biggest number while rubbing it on their head. Katie and Olivia said they loved it.

Meanwhile some girls were designing there robots for the competition that Mr. Hutchings proudly set up. They had some very good ideas, are they good enough to win?

This part of the blog was produced by Holly, Ava, Alex.B and William

An interview with Mrs Carter.

1. How did you become the I.C.T teacher?
A- It was the job I applied for when I came to Sheen Mount Primary School, and I had that job at my old school.
2. Why are we having an I.C.T week?
A- To raise the profile of I.C.T, and to get I.C.T to be used in the class, not just in the Hub.
3. What programme on the computer do you use the most?
A- To do with school I use a web page programme.
4. What I.C.T uses do you use at home?
A- I use a dishwasher, DVD player, C.D player, washing machine, microwave, car and phone.
5. Do you like teaching I.C.T?
A- Yes, but being I.C.T co-ordinate is very time consuming and can be confusing at times.

Meanwhile in the hall, with Mr Hutchings, some year 6 children were using a program called Zing Thing. Mr Hutchings was asking quick questions about ICT in Sheen Mount Primary School. Some of the questions were……. What is your favourite ICT subject? Or, What is your favourite film? Then when Mr Hutchings has collected all the information, he is going to use it to help around the school.

Photos and blog written by Ruby, Jamie, Immy and Daniel on location in year six.

Tuesday 13th November

Tuesday 13th November

This morning year six were editing a program called flowol. They were trying to function a light house on the computer. They could control the lights, horn and light or dark to make sure the boats don't crash. Their task was on a document and it had some clues on it.

They had a picture of the lighthouse and they had the right co-ordinations to stop the boats from crashing. They were working very hard because we nearly couldn't interview them.

ICT focus week from year 5

Monday 12th November 2007

Morning Challenge
Mrs Boa started off our I.C.T focus week with a morning challenge of thinking of as many items that use ICT as possible. Everyone got loads of answers, the most popular answers were ipods and phones.

Mr Kennedy's Maths Set
In Mr Kennedy's maths set we have been focusing on measuring. (litres and millilitres.) Mr Kennedy put up a grid on the smartboard all about litres and lillilitres, He showed us half of the grid and we had to fill in the rest of it. Most of us got it straight away but others needed a bit of help to get started. We all enjoy learning about capacity but tomorrow we will be moving onto area and perimeter.

Mrs Boa's Maths Set

In Mrs Boa's maths set we played co-ordinate bingo and were each given a sheet of paper with some co-ordinates on it and on the smart board co-coordinates came up every two seconds and the first person who had got five co-ordinates crossed off shouted bingo and won everyone really enjoyed it. Tomorrow we will carry on with co-ordinates but be moving on to a bigger grid which will be more challenging.

5B Science
Today we finished off our evaporation project from last week, it was about an experiment to see how temperature effects the speed of evaporation. A few people had already finished so moved on to a quiz on the smart board, the first group did exceptionally well getting a score of 15/20 on a quiz about states of matter but sadly the second group only got 5/20 on a quiz about solids. At the end of the lesson Mr Kennedy gave us an interactive quiz on solids as a class and we scored 20 out of 20!

Year 5 Music
In music year 5 Mrs Boa taught us how to play one of our assembly songs called Bonfire Toffee. We each had a part to learn and play on tuned percussion, and we used ICT playing keyboards, the melody which was played by Sean on the violin and William, Kathryn and Holly who played it on the recorder and by Finton and Hebe in 5B. Its sounds great!

Year 5 Literacy
We started to learn how to change a boring piece of writing into an interesting piece of work. Mr Kennedy and Mrs Boa put the boring piece of writing on the interactive white boards in their classrooms for us all to see. The writing had words in it like "then there was a knock on the door I felt a bit scared." Then we turned it into something like this: "A few moments later there was a horrifying bang on the cob webbed door, terrifying me!"

Year 5 Humanities

Mr Kennedy and Mrs Boa will be showing us on the internet all about Vikings and how they lived. They use a site called Espresso which has videos about Vikings and gives us information.

 

The football team have created a video of their latest match.  Today this was shown to an audience during the lunch hour.  A great use of ICT and a fantastic result with three goals in the last five minutes!

 

Our MP Susan Kramer visited the school today.  She was particularly impressed with our ICT week.  Here she is talking to some Reception children about the movie that they are making about the technology that they can find around the school.

 

 

All systems go ready for the start of ICT Focus week tomorrow.

 

There will be lots of exciting initiatives including the use of Zingthing – a system that lets many people at once contribute to a forum.

Sheen Mount ICT Focus Week

Welcome.

We are now in the final planning stages for our exciting ICT Focus week which starts on the 12th November.

Please check back here during the week to see what has been happening. Our Year 5 children will be maintaining the blog and keeping you posted on what is going on around the school.

Please feel free to contribute and let us know how you think it is going.