Room 5 as Computer Programmers

This term Room 5 have been using Scratch software to create a simple game, Pong.  Here is some footage of two boys playing the games they have created.  The first is more akin to the original game than the second which has had some...creative additions!

Classroom Energiser Part 2

Part 2 in our three part series.  This time, 1, clap, stomp.  It's definitely harder than it looks folks!

Classroom Energiser

Thanks a lot to these good sports for persevering in our 1,2,3 game and offering to demonstrate for the blog.  Hope you like it and look out for some variations on this theme to be posted in future.  I particularly like the head nodding!

Kiwi

Kiwi Short Animated Film

Click on the link above to view the movie we have been analysing in class.  We are trying to find the deeper meaning in the story by:

1. Identifying what we know already about kiwi
2. Identifying facts from the film
3. Coming to our own conclusion

Post Production

This week the groups have been involved in post production.  They have added title pages, recorded their scripts and added sound effects to enhance their movies.  They have solved countless problems throughout the process of making their films and been engaged in many debates.  This trend has continued throughout post production as they negotiate how best to say a line, how well each sound effect fits, etc, etc.  Here are some photos of the children in many locations trying to find a quiet place with no background noise.

FIlming!

It has been a very exciting two or three weeks in room 5.  We have been filming and editing our movies through post production.  They are really coming to life now.  Here are a few photos showing some of the work that has been going on in class.

I would also like to say thank you to Mandy Otter for offering her expertise as a graduate of the EIT film school.  Mandy stepped in to help us at short notice for an entire week of afternoons.  She helped to support the groups in a very unobtrusive way, allowing them to have creative control and be hands on at all times.

Thanks also again to Anthony (Millie's dad) for supporting us through this process as well.  Anthony helped out whilst in the midst of moving house and worked closely with one or two groups to help them explore different camera angles and many other things.

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More NIS

Follow the link to a short clip of some of the year 6's blasting off rockets on the school field.

http://youtu.be/P0ki5zu-sto