Miss Jamieson's Class: News items
Year 4 - The Code Show - computers through the ages
Date: 27th Nov 2019 @ 2:40pm
Today we welcomed ‘The Code Show’ to our school to show us computers through the ages. The children were able to experience Nintendo games, Commodore 64, Amstrad, BBC computer, a typewriter, Atari, Amiga, as well as the first electric car, The Sinclair C5! The children had so much fun tinkering with these technologies!
Date: 27th Sep 2019 @ 1:52pm
Today in school we have been celebrating the a Feast of St Vincent. Every child in the school has decorated a square with a picture of themself or St Vincent and wrote ways they could be like him. Mrs McDuff led a reflection for Year 3 & Year 4. Each child brought their square into the hall and laid it on the floor to form a cross shape. We listened to the reading from ‘The sermon on the mount’ and we discussed how this tells us how we should live to be more like St Vincent and more like Jesus.
Date: 15th Nov 2018 @ 12:53pm
Welcome to Year 4!
In Year 4 we work hard to consolidate learning so far and get the children ready for Year 5 and 6. We ensure to teach a variety of subjects to give everybody a chance to shine brightly.
In History we continue our journey through ancient civilisations and focus on Ancient Greece and The Roman Empire. We look at the development of Italy and Greece as countries in Geography.
We look at the states of matter, sound, electricity and digestion in Science, with lots of experiements too! We will be making healthy snacks and pop up books in Design Technology.
Everyone looks forward to our swimming lessons which commence in February. Another highlight is our Year 4 Nativity performance in December, make sure to get your tickets!
We have a focus on Maths, especially building up our Times Table knowledge. In English we will strive to create imaginative stories and a variety of text types.
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Key Stage Two News Bites and the World's first plant selfie! (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 3rd Jul 2019 @ 10:05pm
Here's this week's News Bites and find out the world's first plant selfie!
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Digital Leader application form 2019-2020
Date: 2nd Jul 2019 @ 8:27pm
Click here to access the Digital Leader Application form 2019-2020
Mrs Needham also has paper copies if you need one.
The deadline for the application form is Tuesday 16th July.
Good Luck!
Date: 2nd Jul 2019 @ 4:28pm
A report from the Digital Leaders 2018-2019
Ava, Molly, Anna, Tom, Maryclare and Becky
Staying Safe posters - September 2018
At the beginning of our year of being a digital leader, we designed our own ‘staying safe online’ posters which are all up on the school walls. Many people look at them as they are passing in the corridors. We wrote on the posters about how to stay safe online and all the dangers of the online world. Some posters contained a quiz to catch the attention of the pupils in our school and so people can test themselves which is a fun way to take in knowledge and enjoy it at the same time. For this we earned our safeguarder badge.
Anti Cyberbullying week - October 2018
We held a competition where you had to design a comic strip about cyber bullying where a child was playing a game online and someone started bullying the child. So the child followed advice about how to stop the bullying by telling a trusted adult. They both reported and blocked the bully and the story ended well. We picked a winner from every class and every winner got a coding book. The comic strips that won are now on display on the Computing display board. Now some of the children are aware of what you need to do when someone is cyberbullying you.
Google Be Internet Legends - November 2018
People from Parentzone/Google came to our school to talk to us about being internet legends and staying safe online. Internet legends is a game created by Google. In the game you learn in a fun way how to keep safe online. There are islands that you can choose to play on. The islands are called: Kind Kingdom, Reality River, Mindful Mountain and Tower of Treasure.The app that you search in the search bar is called Interland and you click on the first result. During the assembly the people from Google passed a toy cat around all of the children to see how fast news can travel. We had a picture at the end of us all with emojis.
Helping the KS1 computing teacher with Year 1 - December 2018
In December, we went to the infant department to help the Year 1 computing teacher. The Year 1s were making fruit kebabs as part of their lesson on algorithms. We got the iPads and we videoed the Year 1s as they made fruit kebabs. We videoed all three classes. We helped them on kebabs because they were doing a project called TV chefs. Mrs Patiniott couldn’t have done it all by herself. We also earned our educator badge.
Pupil Survey December 2018
We created a pupil online safety survey. On the survey there were questions like: What games do you play? And also what PEGI level are your games? We then put the survey online for all the students to complete anonymously. Once we found out the results, Mrs Needham put them into percentages and we presented them to Mr Blain and some other members of our school ‘Online Safety working party’. For this task we earned our leader badge.
Review of Typing Club and Spelling Shed - February 2019
Typing club is a program online that teaches you how to touch type for free. It takes you through a series of lessons and progressively gets harder each lesson. Spelling shed is a brilliant app to helps you learn your spellings.
In February, we went to a workshop with the other digital leaders. We used a programme called Screen cast-o-matic to take a video of the computer screen and we went and did a video on how to use typing club where you can learn how to touch type and spelling shed where you can learn your spellings. This is a very easy way to learn how to type fast and spell. These are useful skills because when you need to type fast then you will be able to if you practise hard enough and you can easily learn to spell in a fun way. We achieved our reviewer badge for doing this.
Safer Internet Day - February 2019
On Safer Internet Day 2019, we went to the infant department to do a presentation and a little role play about a monster called Zap and his friend Zoom. They were playing a game together when the game asked for Zap’s full name for points. We taught the children that we should never tell anyone our full names online as it may be dangerous. Later we went back to the Junior department and, after Mrs Needham’s assembly, we did some role plays about buying games online, how we should ask permission from our parents and another about inviting people to join a game who we didn’t know. For this day we earned our presenter and safeguarder badges.
Network meeting with St Hugh’s - March 2019
In March, St Hugh’s digital leaders visited us in school. They came so that we could teach them how to use a micro computer called a crumble. When they arrived, we greeted them in our reception area before taking them down to the sunshine room which is where we worked that afternoon. First we got the equipment together that we needed. Next all of us sat down to begin. The St Hugh’s digital leaders picked the project that they wanted to work on and we got started. With the crumbles, we used the crumble programming app to make the sparkles, which were attached the crumbles by crocodile clips, start to flash different colours. Through the afternoon, we got quite a lot done with the crumbles and eventually we moved onto animation using the StikBot sets. With the StikBot, we created StopMotion animation videos. We got creative and started to have fun making up short films. All of us had a great afternoon and we earned our networker badge for it.
Guide to making a crumble - April 2019
After the networking meeting with St Hugh’s, we then created a guide to using a crumble and how to use it. We used the google slides and pictures to create the guide. We achieved the creator badge for this.
Technical skills - throughout the year
Throughout the year, we have been supporting staff with our skills and knowledge about computing. We have helped teachers and teaching assistant with technical issues. For this we have earned our technician badge.
We have had a fantastic time being digital leaders this year. We have learned how to use crumbles, microbits and make animations. We have met other digital leaders and found out about what they have done in their school. We would recommend other people apply to be a digital leader for next year.
Key Stage Two News Bites and Young inventors take the STEM challenge (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 27th Jun 2019 @ 8:21am
Here's this week's News Bites and find out about how young inventors are taking the STEM challenge!
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Key Stage Two News Bites and Remembering Rembrandt (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 19th Jun 2019 @ 12:29pm
Here's this week's News Bites and find out about how we remeber Rembrandt.
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Key Stage Two News Bites and Remembering D-Day 75 years on (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 13th Jun 2019 @ 8:33am
Here's this week's News Bites and find out how we remeber D-Day 75 years on.
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Key Stage Two News Bites and Chelsea Flower Show (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 23rd May 2019 @ 9:28am
Here's this week's News Bites and find out about the Chelsea Flower Show!
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Key Stage Two News Bites and Anglo-Saxon Chamber of Secrets (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 15th May 2019 @ 2:07pm
Here's this week's News Bites and found out about the Anglo-Saxon Chamber of Secrets!
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Key Stage Two News Bites and World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 8th May 2019 @ 8:22pm
Here's this week's News Bites and learn about World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day.
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Date: 4th May 2019 @ 7:09pm
Welcome to the Summer Term. Please click on the links below to access Lower Key Stage Two’s Summer Newsletters:
Key Stage Two News Bites and Duke of Wellington's Anniversary (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 2nd May 2019 @ 8:20am
Here's this weeks News Bites and find out about the Duke of Wellington's anniversary.
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Key Stage Two News Bites and Rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 25th Apr 2019 @ 9:33am
Here's this week's News Bites and find out how Notre Dame Cathedral will be rebuilt.
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Key Stage Two News Bites and Easter Eggs! (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 4th Apr 2019 @ 8:31am
Here's this week's News Bites and learn all about Easter Eggs too!
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Key Stage Two News Bites and Mothering Sunday (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 28th Mar 2019 @ 9:04am
Here's this week's News Bites and learn all about the history of Mothering Sunday!
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Crazy Hair Day in the Junior Department
Date: 27th Mar 2019 @ 10:34am
The children have done so well today with their crazy hair styles!!! The children have been so creative.
All the money raised is going to the worthy charities.
Thank you for all your efforts!
Key Stage Two News Bites and Women's History Month - Science and Sport (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 21st Mar 2019 @ 8:22am
Here's this week's News Bites and continuing with Women's History Month, find all about Science and Sport.
Now click on Discovery to take the News Bites quiz!
Digital leader network meeting
Date: 20th Mar 2019 @ 4:10pm
Today the digital leaders from St Hugh’s came to visit us for a networking meeting. Our digital leaders showed their digital leaders how to code using the crumble. They had great fun learning how to make flashing lights and debug the errors. Then they all had the chance to tinker with the Stikbot animation equipment. They made some great short films.
Well done to all the digital leaders for working so well collaboratively and having lots of fun.
Key Stage Two News Bites and Women's History Month (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 14th Mar 2019 @ 8:35am
Here's this week's News Bites and learn all about Women's History Month!
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Date: 7th Mar 2019 @ 12:41pm
For World Book Day, we’ve been sharing our favourite books and showing off our creative costumes!
In class we are performing poetry and imagining our very own Jaberwocky.
Key Stage Two News Bites and Jorvig Viking Festival! (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 7th Mar 2019 @ 8:33am
Here's this weeks News Bites and learn all about the Jorvig Viking Festival!
Click on Discovery to take the News Bites Quiz!
Key Stage Two News Bites and 50 years of the jumbo jet (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 15th Feb 2019 @ 9:49am
Here's this week's News Bites from Discovery Education and learn all about 50 years of the jumbo jet.
Now click on Discovery to take the quiz!
Key Stage Two News Bites and Fake news and social media (Years 3 and 4)
Date: 22nd Nov 2018 @ 12:15pm
Here is this week's News Bites. Learn all about how fake news and social media.
Now click on Discovery to take the News Bites Quiz!