Year 5 Movie Makers

The students in Mrs Hookers class learned how to produce and edit video using the Camera app. They compared different light sources and acoustic spaces for their video production. They explored trim (film cutting) and text for their video editing to produce a short 7 scene video in small groups. They students will next look at developing movies that immerse their persuasive writing skills.

Procedure eBooks

The Year 3's in Mrs Pott and Mrs Murazko's class are developing eBooks that explain the procedure of how to make paper. They are using their procedural text skills to touch type their books and match images of the process for their book audience - their family.

Learning to Give Feedback

The Year 5's in Mrs Hooker's class used the Padlet app to access a Padlet wall created by Mrs Hooker to provide feeback to their friends. The students did a walk through of their Bee Bot mats they created as a Design and Technologies project and used feedback protocols to write their feedback statements to a friend about their mat. The students thoroughly enjoyed the ability to provide and receive feedback, with some eager to alter their designs based on this.

Using Padlet to Establish Prior Knowledge

The Year 3's in Mrs Wood's class used Padlet app to access Mrs Wood's Padlet wall - A KWL chart about solids, liquids and gases - as this is the topic they are studying in Science. The students were able to record what they Know about this topic and then use this to develop questions about what they Want to know as a whole class. After exploring and learning about the topic the students will be able to add what they have Learned to the same Padlet wall and reflect on how far they have progressed.

Planning Autobiographies with Digital Mind Maps

The Year 6's in Mr. Hort's class used the Simple Mind app to plan out their Autobiographies. After researching and writing Biographies of famous Australian's they found that they actually need to do research for their autobiography. Simple Mind enabled the student's to create and structure their key headings in a visual format that they found useful to their planning.

Movie Trailers to Communicate a Product

The Year 5 students in Mrs Hookers class continued their work using iMovie app to communicate the concept behind their Bee Bot Mat products they developed. They worked collaboratively to capture their video and photo media and edit it into a trailer in the app.

Analysis and Research through Coding

The Year 6 students in Mr Hort's class began researching and analysing sub-regions on the Asian Continent in HaSS. They used Scratch Junior app to programme a journey through the sub-regions and capture their research as an audio file. The students used their Advanced Search skills to inform their recordings were factual.