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Earlier this week, our Year 1's created a short news broadcast using Green Screen technology as part of their Great Fire of London topic. Here are their videos:

Today in Year 5, we've been exploring the iPad app, Garageband! This was the children's first time on the iPads at Greenbank and they enjoyed creating their own music. Check out some of their work below! We've tried to include one example from everyone who was in today so hopefully you can find…

Today in Year 4, we're looking at creating animations using @gsuite Slides! Here is our first example created by one of our pupils! #creativity #animation #HPLedu pic.twitter.com/34ixEtkGR0

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Here are some more of our @gsuite Slides…

Ahoy, mateys! Today be Talk like a Pirate Day! All hands on deck! Year 6 be making pirate themed poster's today! Check the blog later! #TalkLikeAPirateDay @AdobeSpark pic.twitter.com/PFwGoCpHJV

— Castle Hill Primary School (@chps_bstoke) September 19, 2019

Here are some of the final…

During our Computing lessons this week, we have also been taking part in Art Week by using various digital art tools to create our own pieces of work.

Our Year 3 pupils at Greenbank have been creating posters for a fictional exhibition of Ancient Egyptian artefacts at the British Museum. Click below to view a page with some examples of the work.

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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Tree planting time lapse pic.twitter.com/jxoNEiqJms

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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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