Geography PowerPoint Presentstions

Today we have given our group PowerPoint presentations to the rest of the class. Each group found out about a different kind of extreme weather, by researching. We made notes, referencing them, then compiled out presentations on screen. These were edited and improved, before the final reveal...

Here we are, ready to present:

Local history week in Class 4!

Today we have started our local history week in Class 4; to continue our class topic of World War 2, we will be finding out about  Bressingham School during the Second World War. 

We have original documents from World War 2 times to use for our enquiry- how exciting! 

The admission register tells us names, dates and addresses of pupils and the log book describes events at school in those days...

Class 4 were very excited to read what the log book said and wrote some notes about what they found out...

Then we looked at the admissions register to find out about the ages of the pupils when they began at Bressingham School and when they left.

Using an online graphing program, we created graphs to show what we had found out. 

Following this, we looked at attendance figures, given as fractions, in the school log book for the war years and converted these to percentages, which was quite a challenge! Some used long division to help and some used calculators.

Here we are preparing our presentations; some groups chose to make PowerPoint presentations, some dramatic pieces, and some combined these two genre...

Finally each group presented their information to the rest of the class, who provided positive feedback and improvement points. 

Amazing teamwork from all...

Making films!

Over the last few weeks, Class 4 have been busy planning, then making films about internet safety, to help explain this to other classes.

First we developed plans by drawing storyboards and looking at films to get ideas. Here are a couple of our initial ideas maps and story boards:

Last week we were busy filming our footage, so forgot to take photos for our class blog!

This week we have been learning how to edit our footage, trimming the clips and re-ordering them, before adding titles and captions, sound bites, sound clips and pictures...

A few finishing touches are needed, then we will be able to show our films to the different classes and help them to be safer on the internet, together with evaluating our own films and those made by other groups.

Class 4 cook, Latin American style!

Wow! What an amazing day! After several planning and preparation sessions, when groups chose a Latin American country, then investigated food in that country, before choosing a recipe to make, whilst also starting PowerPoint presentations about their food project, the cooking and presentation day finally arrived!

Each group worked hard all morning to make their dish and take photographs and video clips ready to add to their presentations.

Cleaning up...

Some of our proud cooks...

This was the first time that many of the children had given presentations using Powerpoint to an audience beyond their classmates. They did incredibly well. 

Finally it was time for tasting and our large and evidently fairly peckish audience joined us in eating almost every morsel! It was great to have so much support from the children's families. Thank you all for coming...