Terrific Computer Games
Our Computing topic has been a huge success.
We’ve been very busy making computer games using Scratch software.
There are so many skills that we have learned and words that we can now use confidently.
The children were asked to design and create a crossy road game, where we had several sprites (characters) that needed programming.
The aim of the game was to get the cat sprite to cross the roads and get to the other side without being hit by a car.
A challenge was to get the cat sprite to go back to the beginning if it hit a car.
Why don’t you ask your child about their game?
Some children have decided to explore this app at home too.
Here are some examples of our finished games done in school.
Scholastic Book Party
We have an exciting new online book fair starting this week. You simply follow the link below to order books from Scholastic at great discounted prices. School will then get 10% of all sales to buy books for school.
https://book-parties.scholastic.co.uk/party/scholesprimary
The link can be shared with family and friends and is for anyone to use. The more we order through the link then the more books we will get for our school.
You can either choose home delivery, which is free when you spend over £25 or you can select free group delivery. Group delivery means the books will be delivered to our book party host Laura Fieldhouse. Laura will contact you for collection from school.
Laura is happy to help select books for gifts, choose age appropriate books or help with any queries. Please contact her on 07840455397. Alternatively, visit Laura’s facebook page ‘Laura’s little bookworms’, where you will find lots of recommendations.
Living and Learning: Health and Prevention Year 3,4
In our Living and Learning sessions over the last couple of weeks, we have been learning about the importance of dental health and getting enough sleep.
I recognise the importance of personal hygiene including handwashing.
We discussed regular brushing to keep our teeth clean and protected.
Good dental health habits include:
- brushing teeth at least twice a day
- eating low sugar foods (and drinks)
- visiting a dentist regularly
I know the importance of sleep.
We know that sleep is important because it helps us to stay happy, feel healthy and make good decisions.
Some of our top tips for making sure that we get a good night’s sleep include:
- keeping a routine
- spending time outside during the day to help us burn off energy
- doing something to relax before sleeping
Can you remember any more top tips?
Skipping School
We’d like to celebrate Super Skipping in Year 3/4 – despite the rain!
We have launched a whole school skipping project with Skipping School. Each class has their own class set of ropes and we also have long ropes for every class too. The children are so enthusiastic about it already. There are some tutorial videos for children to watch too!
New skills learned:
- double bounce
- speed bounce
- side straddle
- scissor straddle
- criss cross
Here are some of our Year 3/4 children enjoying the skipping sessions.
Ask your child about their new skipping skills.
Skipping into summer with Skipping School
We have launched a whole school skipping project with Skipping School. Each class has their own class set of ropes and we also have long ropes for every class too. The children are so enthusiastic about it already. There are some tutorial videos below so you can work on your skills at home too!
- Skipping Tips
- EYFS and KS1 ‘Click and Jump’ tutorial
- EYFS and KS1 ‘Big Rope Bouncing’ tutorial
- EYFS and KS1 ‘Double Bounce’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Double Bounce’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Speed Bounce’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Hop and Swap’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Side Straddle’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Forward and Backward Straddle’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Criss Cross’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Side swing’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Cross over’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Side swing cross’ tutorial
- KS2 ‘Pretzel’ tutorial
- ‘Run, jump, out’ tutorial
- ‘Keep the pot boiling’ tutorial
3,4 NV class post
What a fabulous week!
In PE this week, we have had fun skipping with our brand-new skipping ropes. We have counted how many jumps we can do in one go and have challenged ourselves to develop our skipping skills.
We are computer experts, too! Using Scratch, we have continued to build algorithms and create our own sequences of events and interactions between sprites.
Captain Tom Challenge …done!
A huge well done to all our Y3/4E children who absolutely smaxhed our Captain Tom challenge.
In the class, our children set themselves the challenge of 100 basketball baskets for each team.
It took us quite a while but the children were committed and dedicated to the cause. All of our children achieved highly and either completed the 100 baskets individually or as a team.
Here are some pictures …
New School Charity
Following our manic day on Friday completing the Captain Tom 100 challenge, the Junior Leadership Team have selected our new school charity. All the classes selected a charity of their choice and the JLT members brought the ideas to the meeting. The children all voted and our new charity is….
The National Autistic Society.
If you would like to know more about the charity, please follow this link.
Thank you to everyone that donated to school for the 100 challenge. We had some incredibly generous donations. We managed to raise £185.09 and this will be donated straight away to the charity. Well done and thank you everyone for your hard work!
3,4NV Class News
Well done!
Today, we successfully completed 100 minutes of WUSU – not all in one go! What an achievement! We all felt really proud to complete the Captain Tom challenge.
In addition to this, we have been carefully editing our writing to check that we are including the Must Dos.
Well done – a successful day!
Computing programmers
We’re loving our current topic: computing.
We’ve been learning about staying safe online and we’ve been taking on the role of programmers. After some ‘offline’ learning, where we recapped what algorithms are (ask you child what an algorithm is), we’ve been using Scratch Jr to practise our programming skills.
So far, we’ve programmed our Sprite (Wondering what a sprite is? Ask your child to explain this to you – they should know.) to kick a football into a net and we’ve used repetition to create an underwater animation with several sprites programmed to complete different tasks.
Ask your child how they’re finding this topic. What are they enjoying? When have they been challenged? Why is this learning relevant to them?
We’ll be getting more and more confident using some programming vocabulary over the next few weeks. Help at home by using these words with your child, or testing them, or simply asking them about what they mean…
