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Creating a sprite and backdrop for our online educational games!
Today we used Scratch to start creating our own online educational game. We created a sprite and edited it using the costume tab. We also selected a backdrop to suit our chosen theme. We then decided on a name for our game. Next week we will work on getting our sprites to move!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 23 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Class Liturgy - Theme: Save the Animals!
Well done to James, Joseph and Patryk who did a wonderful liturgy for the class this afternoon with the theme - save the animals! This included a piece of scripture called Noah's Ark, a prayer to help save animals as well as a quiz on how we can protect them!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 11 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Learning more Spanish!
Today Year 4 learnt how to introduce someone, to ask how someone is, the names of animals, the names of colours and classroom phrases in Spanish!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 8 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
TT club in action!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 4 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Playing and analysing online educational games!
Today we started to play and analyse online educational games so that we can find out which features make them successful. We can then use this knowledge to help us create our own online educational game on Scratch!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 3 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Analysing artifacts from Ancient Civilisations!
Today the children analysed artifacts from Ancient Civilisations - Sumer, Indus Valley and Shang Dynasty. They had to decide who they thought it belonged to, what it was and what achievement it represented...
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 2 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Our first Spanish lesson!
Today year 4 welcomed Eva, their new Spanish teacher! They had plenty of questions and can't wait to start learning more Spanish after half term!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 18 October 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Liturgy about never losing heart
Year 4 watched a liturgy today with the theme of never losing heart, by The Mark 10 Mission.
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 14 October 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Times Tables club in action!
Year 3 and 4 enjoyed times tables club today! They practised their times tables using TT rock stars and had some epic battles against each other!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 14 October 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Rangoli art!
Today the children created their own rangoli patterns as part of our Indian Art topic. Take a look at some of their amazing work!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 14 October 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Creating Mehndi art patterns!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 6 October 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Investigating the link between temperature and evaporation!
Today year 4 investigated the link between temperature and evaporation. We were trying to decide the best method to dry clothes, so we wet some paper towels and placed them in different locations. We used stopwatches to time how long it took for them to dry. It turns out the drier was the quickest…
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:17 on 3 October 2022
Category: Year 4/5D