Check out this amazing video R inYear Five completed, in her own time, linking her creativity with many of the skills we explored in our previous animation computing unit.
In an effort to be as active as possible, Year Five took part in a dance workshop, lead by our friends at ‘Creative Seed’.
Pupils were challenged to get flexible and freaky as they explored motion in dance and how, although not explicitly, everyone can do it on a daily basis. From head-bobs to foot-taps, the discussed how dancing is a lot more common in our lives than what we think. Have a look at our hard work below.
To build on our existing knowledge of block-based coding, the class explored a new piece of hardware, a BBC Micro:bit. Once introduced to our new equipment the class took turns predicting what it did and how did it work, as well as how it was programmed. After watching a few videos explaining their use, in addition to a walk through with their own Micro:bit each, the pupils explored the different features of the device and were challenged to create a basic program, in which they used a variety of inputs and basic commands.
HC noted, “I like all the different image options”.
RD stated, “The sounds and aesthetics of the hardware and software is what I like the most”.
Building on that work, pupils explored crating their own animations, linking back to last half-term’s work. Pupils were challenged to decompose an animation into a series of images, explaining the difference between ‘on start’ and ‘forever’ blocks. Eventually, once they had finished reviewing existing code, the class were able to explore and create their own animations, as well as their own virtual hamster!
RA stated, “I liked the freedom to choose what you want to show”.
EB added, “The software we used reminded my of Scratch which helped”.
To bring our unit based around animation to an end, the class were challenged to create their final stop-motion video after collaboratively planning it over the last two lessons. All groups used an array of materials to film their videos, with one group able to add sound effects to their work.
Check out their hard work below!
As part of our journey in creating a pop-up book suitable for Year One to read in the future, Year Five have spent this afternoon planning each page of their final piece, in addition to how a mechanism or structure could be implemented into it. They were challenged to use levers, sliders and automatic pull strips to bring their books to life! Watch this space for the final product!
Another fantastic week of achievements to celebrate at Marine Park! Well done everyone!
As part of our work into the history of animation, we explored the history of animation in the 19th century. We found that children used to use animation as a form of entertainment and it was accessible for everyone to help us. To help us imagine what it was like, we created a “Thaumatrope” and “flip books” which demonstrated animation of still image moving through spinning them quickly, back and forth or flicking through quickly.
Check out our hard work below!
In Computing, to summarise all of our work up to this point, Year Five explored the Mars Rover and how it uses a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and RAM (Random Access Memory) to navigate the red planet. They reviewed how the ongoing iterations of the rover improved in many areas, such as the input and output too.
To challenge ourselves, the class attempted to send a distress call, in binary, back to NASA, after crash landing on a distant planet. They had only 100 letters to use as their RAM was full. As you can see, all groups got busy and wrote their message of distress before Oxygen ran out!
As part of our Science unit, the class explored how day and night occurs. To do so, the children reviewed the use of sundials and how generations before us read the time. Eventually, we created our own working sundials, making sure we remembered the names for each part (the face and gnomon). Have a look at their hard work!
This week, children took part in a whole school assembly to find out the final results of the project to reduce food waste in school.
Everyone in school worked really hard to reduce our food waste by 33%!
Well done everyone! Thank you to the Waste Warriors for all their hard work!
