In our second lesson of computing on vector drawing (computer drawings using shapes), the children had to create pictures of animals. Here are some examples of the children’s work:
The children have been learning about how computers send messages to one another in their topic: Sharing Information.
They were all set up as 10 computers and 20 routers connecting them together. One computer sent a packet (a message) to another, being passed from router to router to reach it’s destination.
After doing this as a class, they showed their understanding on a sheet.
It has become apparent that children are playing games on the yard inspired by the new Netflix show ‘Squid Game‘ – rated 15. While the games the children are playing at school have not currently caused concern (mainly chasing, tag type games), the content of the programme may not be age appropriate.
To help gauge if content (movies, TV shows, video games, books, etc) is appropriate, the website Common Sense Media is a great place to help. It gives reviews from both parents and children about what age they think the content is best suited for and gives reasons for their opinions.
With children and adults spending more and more time online, here are some guides to help support both parents and children online.
Guide to your child staying safe online:
Guide to social pressures linked to friends and followers:
After a 2 weeks of researching and writing a report on the Maya, the children then developed that report into an information podcast. Working in groups, they gave out roles to each other and wrote a script to record. Once recorded they edited their podcast to increase the volume of their speaking voices, and chose music for their theme – which they had to cut and alter the volume in order to hear the speaking voices.
We hope you enjoy!
“A Leap into the Past”
“Back in History”
“Back in the Past”
“Blast from the Past”
“The Brain Forest”
“Harton Histories”
Students have quite probably spent a lot of time online and you might have concerns about the impact of screen time. I’ve attached a leaflet from the National Online Safety Centre on that subject – trying to avoid the children becoming ‘Screen Zombies’.
Also attached is a a PDF with some information about TIkTok – which has an age restriction of 12+. We are aware that a number of children are using this app, but stress that they should be careful and follow the E-Safety teachings they have learned in Computing lessons and KidSafe courses. The leaflet is for is a guide for parents regarding the app and offers some advice to help monitor and keep their children safe.
The theme of this year’s Safer Internet Day which our pupils took part in, was Exploring Reliability in the Online World.
Year 4 pupils took part in a live quiz on Google Meet run by the ICT in Schools Team. There were teams involved from other South Tyneside schools too. It was a lot of fun, and it prompted a lot of discussion. We learnt a lot about keeping our information private, about real and fake images, and online bullying.
Tomorrow morning at 10am the Year 2 teachers are going to login to google classroom and read a story with their class. We have sent home your child’s google classroom login within the packs of work.
We have previously logged onto google classroom with the children in school but this is the first time using the meeting feature, this is a trial run so please bear with us!
The joining instructions are below, we hope to see you tomorrow:
It was lovely to see so many of Y3 today for our Google Classroom Meet!
We enjoyed a Kahoot Halloween Quiz together and then our teacher read us ‘The Sound Collector Poem’ and we thought about some onomatopoeia words that we could link with Halloween! We came up with lots together to prepare us for planning and writing our own Spooky Halloween Sound Collector Poem tomorrow.
We then enjoyed having time to share our crafts and what we have been up to over the past week – Miss Devlin was very impressed that we all showed respect for each other by putting our hands up to have our turn to speak and using our thumbs up to let Miss Devlin know we understood her.
Enjoy planning your onomatopoeia poems tomorrow Y3 – I cannot wait to see what ideas you come up with!
During geography week, while working at home, the children were given work to research the local area of South Shields. This included looking at different industries that have been present in South Shields at different time periods, looking at natural features of the area and famous people who came from our area. Some work completed handwritten, others have used internet images and their own drawings to make a PowerPoint. Here are some excellent examples that the children have shared:
Jay – 5J
Lucy N – 5F
Lucy Pe – 5F
