For this week – taking inspiration from the likes of Morph, Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit – we tried our hand at creating some claymation videos.
This allowed us to manipulate the clay into different shapes and completely change the look of the object we were photographing.
Here are our first attempts are creating claymation animations:
Following our first week of stop motion club, here are all of our videos that the children made in their first hour of stop motion.
When working with databases, the children have been searching using terms to search datafields. They have developed this skill further through the use of ‘AND’ and ‘OR’ terms to narrow their searches. 
Last half term, we used the app Pixlr to explore how images can be edited. We used our knowledge to create advertisements for weird and wonderful places and films. Check out some of our adverts. We hope you like them!
Year 3 have been enjoying our ICT topic ‘Branching Databases’. We have been learning about yes and no questions and we began arranging objects in a tree structure to determine which groups the objects belonged to. We are looking forward to creating our own branching database in the upcoming weeks!
We are incredibly proud of our Harton Primary Puzzlers team this year. They represented South Tyneside in the national First Lego League final. They were polite, hardworking and enthusiastic throughout the day despite their very early morning start! They reached the final 12 knockout stage of the robotics game and even came away with the IET Innovation Award. They received this award for their detailed, inventive project idea as well as their fantastic gameshow-style presentation, interesting robot programming and design and their phenomenal teamwork. Well done, Harton Puzzlers.
Check out one of our robot games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xGXAS1kxM&t=16076s
This is the moment the team received their well-deserved award.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLq35r3j0hU&t=3335s
In computing this year, we explored different podcasts and even made our own! Y4E had learned loads of interesting facts about the Anglo-Saxons in history so they decided to write and record podcasts based around this theme. We hope you enjoy them!
Year 3 have had so much fun making their own animations. We used a technique called onion skinning to help us make small changes between the frames. It took lots of skill! We had to ensure our background and frame shot did not change while moving our characters a very small amount each time. We worked very carefully to produce a stop frame animation that showed consistency and they were fantastic!
The children have used their new skills in vector drawing to create their 2022 calendars. The used 2 different sides of their image to show 2 different times of the year through use of shapes to draw their images.
Here are a few examples of their work…
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:
