Barrow CE Primary School

…there were seven planets. When I was a lad it was nine. At Barrow Primary School the pupils now know that there are TEN. (But are there any more?)

However, on a safer note, the pupils in Class 3 have been continuing their exploration - Earth and Space - and have been podasting their thoughts on the learning journey, in ICT, science and literacy. Enjoy, and hopefully, post a comment.

Starting in Holst’s order

Mars - Alice & Gemma MP3 M4A
Venus - Roxanne & Oliver MP3 M4A
Mercury - LilyD & Rupert MP3 M4A
Jupiter - LilyR & JackS MP3 M4A
Saturn - Millie & MitchellH MP3 M4A
Uranus - Jaya & Adam MP3 M4A
Neptune - JackH & Ben MP3 M4A

Following with the new kids on the block

Pluto - Sam & Mrs Jones MP3 M4A
Eris - MitchellJ & Ciaran MP3 M4A

with last, but by no means least, our very own

Earth - Tom & Maisie MP3 M4A

Steve was in ‘how to create a blog mode’ at one of the lunchtime seminars during the Shropshire IT Conference. Here he is, creating a blog at speed!

Barrow School presented a workshop on Webcams and Blogging. Mrs Barton gave a presentation on the use of Webcams and Blogging to enhance teaching and learning. Mr Fenton talked about the ‘techie’ aspects.

Two pupils, Alice and Tom, were at the conference whilst Lily and Mitchell used a live video link from school to demonstrate the use of Adobe Connect (nee. Macromedia Breeze).

Powerpoint BloggingTech

Class 3 have been studying the Planets and have presented their research using Comic Life on Steve’s iBooks G4.

Click on the links below to view their work:

Alice & Gemma - Mars                                         JackH & Ben - Neptune

Jaya & Adam - Uranus                                         LilyR & JackS - Jupiter

LilyD & Rupert - Mercury                                     Millie & Mitchell - Saturn

MitchellJ & Ciaran - Eris                                       Roxanne & Oliver - Venus

Sam & Mrs Jones - Pluto                                     Tom & Maisie - Earth

Class 3 have been creating information pages using Comic Life software on AppleMac G4 Notebooks. This was their first venture into the programme and was treated as a ‘have-a-play’ session. The results are pretty stunning.

Click on the links to view the work. Some of them are incomplete, but still worth looking at.

Adam & Jaya                Alice & Gemma

JackH & Ben                   LilyD & Rupert

LilyR & JackS                 Millie & MitchellH

MitchellJ & Ciaran            Roxanne & Oliver

Sam & Mrs J                   Tom & Maisie

The next stage is to use Comic Life to present information on Earth and Space with a chosen planet as the main theme.

Class 3 have been composing pieces of music inspired by The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst.

We have provided links to four of the pieces:

• Pluto by Adam
• Nightmares by Alice
• Mercury the Bringer of Death by Lily
• Pluto the Bringer of Love by Millie

Composing was carried out using Finale NotePad, a free programme from http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/ which will print scores and playback music.

The Finale files were recorded into Audacity, yet another free programme http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ and converted into MP3 files (this requires the addition of a programme called LAME which can be downloaded from the Audacity link). These files were uploaded to digitalbrain and linked to this article on the Barrow Blog.

I’ve just deleted a post by Roxanne’s friend displaying an MSN address. NEVER EVER POST PERSONAL INFORMATION. Remember that the blog is open to anyone on the web and that giving personal information to strangers is very dangerous.

Mr F

friend frends are there till the end if

there not there till the end then there not your friend

i would like to know what you do in your spare time so please can you tell me so i can write a poem about it please.