In this years final newsletter - messages from Mrs Evans and Mr Murrant, Teddy Bear Picnic, classes for next year, Busy Bees new prices and the school year in review.
You can download the newsletter here - Hunnyhill Press 22-07-10.pdf (535.11 kb)
In this weeks newsletter - Ofsted report Good with 11 outstanding areas, Puffin Assembly, Kingfisher Assembly, Primary Conference, Teddy Bear Picnic, Last day of school arrangements.
Download the newsletter here - Hunnyhill Press 16-07-10.pdf (457.25 kb)
Kingfisher’s treated us to an excellent assembly all about the seaside. The children were dressed appropriately in
summer beachside clothing, paying special attention to sunhats!
We had to guess seaside animals and objects from the clues the children gave in their PowerPoint presentation.
Kingfishers also performed a seaside poem where the sand got everywhere, which made us giggle.
There was also some fantastic safety advice for when we visit the seaside this summer. This included some excellent seaside warning signs the children had created.
Well done Kingfishers class!
On Wednesday we exhibited at the Primary Conference in Cowes Yacht Haven. The team showed off their fantastic ICT skills and wowed the delegates with their presentation skills, LIVE Google Talk video feed and collaborative work between our Cowes and Newport teams as they constructed a presentation using Google Docs.
The children used several online tools and other software including Microsoft PowerPoint, Audacity, Picnik and Soundation to put together the presentation that you can view in the video below.
We also demonstrated some of our ICT equipment and how we use them. The webcam was very popular with some of the other children exhibitors as we can superimpose hats and other facial accessories onto their live video image. This is great for story telling especially when you use avatars and of course its fun! We also had portable USB microphones and recordable speech bubbles and video recorders.
As the Ofsted report comments we
“have embraced the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) so that it fully contributes to their (the children’s) learning and is integral in all lessons.”
“Thank you for supporting the conference with your inspirational stand” - Duncan Mills — Commissioner for Early Years and Primary Education
Picnik Photo Editor – For all your usual photo editing tools and the ability to unleash your creativity with effects, frames and stickers.
Soundation – An online tool for the creation of music tracks. Mix your songs and then download a .wav file of your finished masterpiece.
Audacity – Free audio editor that we use with our fantastic Snowball Microphone.
Watch out presentation below…
What a fantastic Puffin’s assembly we had on Tuesday. Puffins started by showing us their science investigation skills, combined with excellent video recording of the experiments they performed.
Puffin’s topic was water and the children showed us their balsa boats they had designed and created. The boats were raced over a course with the wind being supplied by a fan. The winning boat designed by Kyle completed the course in 5.8 seconds followed closely by Lucas in at time of 5.9 seconds.
We were shocked by how much water we use for everyday tasks such as showering, washing clothes and the car. Puffins had a fantastic visual way to show us how many litres we use.
In this weeks newsletter - Sports Day, String Concert, Walk the Wight Assembly, Mrs Smith Year 5 teacher, Summer activities.
Download the newsletter here Hunnyhill Press 09-07-10.pdf (928.45 kb)