Before our half term holiday, Year 8 History students have been working on 18th Century changes in France. Students were asked to produce short comic – like summaries of the key issues. Students really enjoy working with this application and as well as getting to grips with key issues of the time, they have fun [...]
Year 7 took a short break from spreadsheets on Monday in order to produce work on Halloween. Students used Comic Life to produce some very informative, colourful and lively posters which were just a little bit scary!
Boys have started Scratch programming and have become engrossed and enthusiastic very quickly. Take a look at these photos; you can see intense concentration, absolute engagement and students dead keen to help each other. For me its quite blissful really, students are focussed, more often dead quiet and learning valuable skills. Students have created some initial basic projects [...]
We’ve recentlycompleted work on various aspects of Tudor life. In previous lessons we had studied different types of beggars and thieves of this time. We looked a little more deeply at the “King” of thieves – Nicholas Jennings and created fake Facebook profiles for him. Click on this link to access the information students had to use for this project. [...]
Year 7′s have spent some time this week getting to grips with html tables in order to ensure that the text and images of their latest blog posts, “My Christmas List” are lined up for easy reading. Take a look at some of their work below.
Year 7 have just begun creating blogs in class. Before they created blogs, it was important that they planned and prepared what they were going to write about. For this section of work, the blog title would be, ‘My Christmas gifts.’ As a start, it was probably a good idea to write out a list of the items they had received and [...]
At the end of last term we decided that as Year 8′s were completing their work on the Princes in the Tower – and are about to begin a section on Henry VIII, (well known for his rather portly appearance due to his love of excess) we’d put together a menu for a Tudor Christmas [...]
In the last couple of weeks Year 7 have been focusing on Internet Safety. We covered: 1. Acceptable behaviour in communicating online, being careful online, (via any medium including social networks and chat) the passing out of personal details and arrangments regarding meeting up of new online friends. They also answered a questionnaire from the ThinkUKnow website regarding [...]
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