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Y6 students had a fantastic day of learning at Sirius Academy West today. We took part in a carousel of olympic themed activities and demonstrated fantastic team work to win as many point as possible for the countries we were representing!
In the maths session, we playing ‘archery maths’ and studied sprint times from the 100m races. This tested our mental maths skills and ability to order numbers up to 2 decimal places. We also enjoyed spotting lines of symmetry on the countries’ fags!
We worked really hard in art to develop our light sketching skills and design and draw our own olympic mascots.
In computing, we programmed an electronic game of squash and loved spending time in the designated computer suites!
We had so much fun playing competitive geography games which tested our knowledge on the countries involved in hosting the olympics and also the continents in which they were held!
In Year 1 we are learning all about Purple Mash and are learning how to log into it and how to navigate around the site.
It is important to keep your password safe so nobody else can pretend to be you.
We keep our password safe so nobody else can use it.
I keep my password safe because it’s my work and I don’t want anybody else to do it.
Some of us have usernames and passwords at home that we need to get onto games too, so in class we discussed why logging onto something is important to keep our information and details safe.
Spreadsheets
In Y1, in computing, we are currently learning all about Spreadsheets.
So far we know what a row, column and cell are and we have populated cells with colours, numbers, words and complete number sentences using mathematical symbols.
We have also learned how to input clip art pictures and are beginning to to make the pictures move!
Some of us used our knowledge of colours and clipart to make some lovely moving scenes!
This afternoon in Y1 we have been learning what coding means in computing – we found out that all of our favourite computer games we play on at home are all made by coding and that it is basically giving characters and objects instructions to move!
We were able to programme a range of sea creatures to move left, right, up and down! We understood we needed to give the computer very clear instructions or the creatures wouldn’t move properly.
We have been thinking about how we get to school in F2…
Take a look and see what we discovered.
Year 2 have been learning about plants this term. They have learned the parts of the plant, the things a plant need to survive and have learned about different plants that we can eat. Year 2 used their Computing skills this week to create an informative leaflet all about plants. In their leaflet’s the added text and pictures. They also changed the font size and colour.
Today, the Year 5 children in school created a banner for safer internet use to showcase what they have been learning about throughout the week.
This week, both in school and at home, the Year 5 children have been completing activities centred around staying safe online.
For their first task, they created posters informing children of the SMART rules for staying safe online.
Freddie F
Ella C Jamie C
For their second task, they looked at advertising and how people use social media to advertise and promote products.
Ava-May S
For their final task, they discussed a range of activities and actions that people can undertake online and decided how risky these actions and activities are and why.
Jay H
Y2 have been learning about Internet Safety this week. First we asked the question ‘What is the internet?’
We discussed ways that we keep safe on the internet and learned that the everything we read on the internet is not always true. Then we used what we have learned to complete a quiz on Purple Mash.
We all had some fantastic ideas on how to stay safe with the main rule being: if in doubt check with an adult first!