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Year Three have been reading the True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka. As part of their computing lessons, they have worked on iPads to create backgrounds and filmed themselves reading the story in front of the green screen to enable the creation of the following video:

In Year R, we are currently looking at caterpillars and are lucky enough to have our own class caterpillars growing in the classrooms. During our computing lesson this week we looked at the story of the Hungry Caterpillar and drew our own pictures of the Caterpillar. We also used green screen…

Our Year R pupils had their first attempts at #stopmotionanimation today using iPads and toys from the classroom. Here are some of their examples. pic.twitter.com/s1SgsYHQA9

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Our pupils are currently working on planting apple trees in the field at Greenbank with @IncEdNetwork https://t.co/j1JPeFkpc2

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Last week, we held two #HPLedu days at our Rooksdown Campus. As part of the activities, pupils worked in cross-year groups to retell the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff via @GoogleForEdu Toontastic app. Here are a few of the finish products. @HPLedu pic.twitter.com/xgGZoj7gT0

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Here is a selection of activities for the Christmas holidays. Check back regularly for more updates!

Google Santa Tracker

Google Santa tracker allows you to play a variety of games and on Christmas Eve updates to allow you to track Santa's progress throughout his night of delivering…

Across the school, we have been taking part in the Hour of Code. Pupils in KS1 and Lower KS2 were taught about algorithms through a computing dance party which you can see clips of in the video below. Pupils across the school have also used the Code.org website to practice their coding in either…

This week Year R have been exploring the school grounds with iPads and taking photos of various things around the school. Here is a slideshow with some of the photos taken today:

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been working on Halloween related activities in Computing with pupils using their skills on Google Slides to move words onto a Halloween background. This presented the challenge of limited word choices and being unable to add new words the pupils had to work…

Across the school we have been learning how to use binary code within our Computing lessons. 

In Year 3, we created artwork using the binary code for the letters of our names. Here are some examples of our work:

On Tuesday, Year 5 experienced a Virtual Field Trip using the Skype in the Classroom scheme to connect the year group with the Intrepid Sea, Air, Space Museum in New York City! 

During the call, we were connected with the museum and shown around the exhibits such as the Space Shuttle Pavilion…