Year 6 Calendars
In ICT Year 6 have begun working on their calendar designs. They will be creating images inspired by the cover to The Beatles’ album “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Today they have been researching famous people born within a certain month and next week they will begin to source images to use in their collage. I have been looking at the month June and here are some of the people that will feature in my design…
- Marilyn Monroe
- Edward Elgar
- Rafael Nadal
- George V
- Angelina Jolie
- Bjorn Borg
- Judy Garland
- Steffi Graf
- Noddy Holder
Host the Olympics : Group 2
Host the Olympics
In ICT this term Year 7 will be representing a city of their choice and will be putting together a bid to host a future Olympic Games. This morning the first class began to choose their cities. Their choices are below. Please vote for the city you think, on first impression, would be the best host of the Olympics.
The Victorian Internet
Wired City of 1890
In ICT this Half term year 7 will be producing a radio documentary about the “Victorian Internet”. This morning they researched what is meant by the Victorian Internet and discovered that it refers to the invention of the electrical telegraph which allowed communication using Morse code to be sent internationally.
They used a website called Spicy Nodes to collate the information they discovered.
Semaphore and Morse Code
In ICT this term Year 3 will be concentrating on the ‘C’ for Communication. They have been looking at different methods of sending messages over long distances. In the first week they tried some semaphore and sent messages across the classroom. This week they had a go at transmitting messages using Morse Code. They had bulbs and switches set up with very long wires that meant they could send messages down the corridor and around the corner. Next week they will begin to look at a more modern form of long-distance communication – e-mail.
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Why should we be taught ICT?
In ICT I asked Year 8 to tell me why they should be taught ICT. Here is Jasmine’s response.
We should be taught ICT because it is a constantly developing subject. Also soon technology will take over the world and you will need to know a lot about ICT to get a job. ICT teaches you how to go on the internet this is useful because you can communicate to people on the other side of the world with social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Another reason that we need the internet is because there are now millions of education sites which teachers can use to teach there pupils such as linguascope or languages on line and hoodamath. ICT is also useful because if you go into the army you will need ICT to launch missiles, fly fighter planes, fly drones and drive the armoured vehicles that they use in hostile territory. Gaming is also becoming very popular with children and teenagers. In ICT it teaches how game consoles work. Also if you choose to make wii, x-box and ps3 games it will be very important to be able to use ICT.
And Your Specialist Subject Is….?
This morning in ICT Year 7 were researching and writing questions for ICT themed Specialist Subject Mastermind rounds. Some of the topics included Sonic the Hedgehog, Atari, Pac-Man, Nintendo and Space Invaders.
Here are some of their questions.
Atari is the Japanese for which word?
Which elementary school did Bill Gates attend?
Nintendo started their business in which year?
When was the Sega Dreamcast released?
Who founded Commodore Computers?
What is Steve Jobs’ middle name?
Who created Sonic the Hedgehog?
What is the name of the blue ghost in Pac-Man
Which key on the ZX81 is used to erase text?
How many of those questions can you answer?
