Fabulous Fifth

Welcome to all the new students in Fifth class. To commemorate the occasion Jemelah a marvellous artist in the class drew a great sketch of us all in her free time. I particularly like her image of the class teacher.

Calling Tarn, France

Calling Tarn

On Thursday we got the opportunity to make a Skype call to one of our eTwinning partners in Tarn in the southwest of France . it was great meeting and speaking to the students that we had worked with during the year.We thanked them for the beautiful lapbook featuring puzzles and information on the five countries participating in the eTwinning project that they had sent us. At the end of the session they sang La Marseillaise the French National Anthem. We ended the session by singing the song about Molly Malone.

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement is where someone volunteers to go to schools and teach the children for a few weeks about the skills that you need for a job,the resources that you need for your business and a few other things.It was great fun and I would like to do it again.Ruth from Top Oil came to work with our class. She told ue about natural resources, man made resources and human resources. We learned the skills you need for a business and how to make one. We had to work in groups to set up our own business and make out own advertisement.
by Jonathan

Working on the Global Connection activity with Ruth our tutor .

We are all connected globally through the products that we purchase. Here we are playing the Global Connection activity. We read from Global Needs Cards about a car manufaacturer that deals with workers and products from all over the world.We learned how the company's jobs and locations are connected.We had to listed to the explanation of how the cards connect and then pass the twine to the cardholder mentioned in the description.

Ruth presented us with our certificates.

One day a girl called Ruth from Top Oil came into our class to teach us lots of different things about becoming entrepreneus. She told us about the importance of the four STEM skills. These skills are science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We has to fill in a Job Skill Shart and make a bar graph to show the skills that are needed for the workplace. Our teacher interviewed Ruth for a job. It was really funny as Ruth did a lot of stupid things and was very rude at the interview. We had a laugh and then Ruth showed us the correct way to do the interview.
by Katie

My Dog

Earlier in the term we participated in Digital Art Treasure Hunt 2014 and were introduced to a sculpture called My Dog by one of Japans most popular contemporary artist Yoshimura Nara. We loved the childlike simplicity of this sculpture and decided to investigate its history.

© Credit : Public Delivery

We were fascinated to discover that a version of this art work has been reproduced as a very special Doggy Radio in a glossy white plastic.The dog's red nos lights up when you turn it on. The volume control can be found underneath the dog's chin.

© Credit : New Art Editions

Warren has great hand eye co-ordination and made his own version using Paint software. We were impressed by his efforts.

Tagxedo Competition

My students are enjoying exploring Tagxedo and experimenting with various design combinations.We hope to write a post on Internet safety later in the month and I'm hoping to include a few of the Tagxedo designs.
Please help me with my final selection by scrolling down to the end of the post and voting for the design of your choice. Check under the design to find the name of the creator.

Sophie

Jessica

Mystery

Karl

Jonathan

Fourteen of my students have created designs. Be sure to scroll down to the end to see all their names and to find the submit button.

European Lap Book

Last month our class received an amazing surprise from our eTwinning partners in the Tarn region of France. It was a European lap book. It had two fun games in it. The first one was a game of Dominoes. You had a card with a flag of a European country on one side and the name of a European Union country on the other side.

 At first we found it a bit difficult as the names of the countries were in French but we finsished the game. We used Google translate to find the English names of some of the countries.

The other game involved sorting images and names. They gave us images of monuments, famous authors, buildings and artists from the five eTwinning countries. We had to sort the various items and then match the words with the pictures. 
We also had how to say hello, how are you and thank you in French on the side. The lap book also the information on the population ,language, national anthem and the area of the participating countries. 

They also had some information about the European Union.  We also got a few lovely photographs from their skiing trip to the Pyreneese. finally there were tiny little cookery books featuring recipes from all five participating countries. If you would like to test your knowledge of the Flags of Europe Click here

Posted by Sophie

Experimenting with Tagxedo

We have been learning how to use Tagxedo
Joyce loves reading and choose words from her current novel to incorporate in her design.



The thing that I like to do the most is read books. The books that I like to read are Henderson Boys a series of books written by Robert Muchamore. I've read the first and second book, so now I'm on the third book. The main characters in the book are Rosie, Paul, Marc, Mr Henderson, PT and Dormant. The character that I like the best is Rosie because her mum and dad are dead and she has to make sure that her little brother Paul is ok. They all work together and make sure that they leave before there is another war. The next series that I really want to read is The Hunger Games.The three main characters are Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Malark and Cato Hadley. I've watched the movie but I'm also going to read the books. I love reading!!!!

Sophie is a fan of the Hunger Games



The Hunger Games is an amazing book trilogy . There are currently two movies The Hunger Games and Catching Fire . The last book , Mocking jay is getting split into two parts because it is a big book . The four main characters are Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Melark, Effie Trinket and Haymitch Abernathy . Katniss is just an ordinary sixteen year old girl most of the time she skilled at archery. Peeta is good at baking and is very strong, he's also sixteen .Effie is district 12's escort, born in the capitol she is always overly dressed and pink .Haymitch is always drunk but at the times he is sober he can be very wise and kind. The actress who plays Katniss Everdeen is played by x-mens Jenifer Lawrence . The actor who plays Peeta Melark is played by Josh Hutcherson. The actress who plays Effie trinket is Elizabeth Banks . The actor who plays is acting legend Woody Harleson The secondary characters are ,District one Marvel and Glimmer, District two Cato Hadley and Clove Sevina, District 5 fox face, District 11 Thresh and Rue.

Ryan loves football and decided to select his dream team.



My favourite payers are mostly Brazilian or they play for Liverpool. Suarez is my favourite player because he scores lots of goals for Liverpool. Pele and Rivaldo are two Brazilian legends. Pele played for Santos FC when he was 15. Rivaldo played for Barcelona and scored a chest and an over head kick for them. My favourite players on Liverpool are the three s Suarez, Sterling and Sturridge. These are most of my favourite players if these were all on a team that would be one of my dream teams.

By Ryan