Heroes and Villains - Welsh Heroes

As part of our Hero and Villains topic, we have been learning all about heroes and villains throughout history. We have been researching their lives, looking at their timelines and writing biographies.

Our main push for our topic is to champion a Welsh hero to find out who is everyone's favourite. We chose heroes at random.

To be successful we need to:

Create an iMovie trailer to promote their lives
Create a portrait
Create an advertising poster
Prepare and deliver a 1 minute oral persuasive presentation

Our first task has been to create our iMovie trailers. Here they are:

Welcome to a new academic year

This half term’s topic in Year 4/5/6 is Heroes and Villains. This project has a history focus and teaches children about heroes and villains from different periods of history, their motives, their beliefs and the ways in which they changed the world. At the heart of this project children write persuasively in the form of reports and letters, and additional skills in writing biographies and speeches.

 

In the Innovate Stage children apply their skills and understanding by championing a Welsh hero to find out who is the most popular.

 

In this project the children will learn:

 

• How to research using a range of historical source materials including ICT and the media; 

• The chronological order of a range of significant people throughout history and about the times in which they lived and how this influenced them; 

• About a range of influential historical figures and about their beliefs and actions; 

• About contemporary heroes and villains; 

• How to write in a range of forms to persuade people; 

• Why laws and social change comes about from the impact of heroes and villains; 

• How to perform an influential speech
   
  Our Literacy focus this half term will be the epic poem ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes. In this poem the children will have a focus on letter writing, features of poetry and journalistic writing.
   
  In numeracy we will be immersing ourselves into Singapore mathematics, beginning with a focus on number.
   
  Our science topic this half term is electrical circuits.
   
  PE days will be on Wednesday and Friday afternoons. Wednesday’s PE will be striking and hitting and will, weather permitting, be outside so will therefore require trainers, tracksuit bottoms and t-shirts. Friday’s PE will be gymnastics and will take place in the hall therefore pupils will need to wear shorts/tracksuit bottoms and t-shirts. Please can you ensure that all pupils clothes are named to avoid the confusion of lost items of clothing.
   
  Pupils will be given weekly online homework via studyladder. They will also have access to sumdog (an online mathematics challenge website) and languagenut (an online modern foreign language website),
   

Into Film Project - Session 13 - The Films

Out Into Film project short films. Enjoy!

Into Film Project - Session 13 - The Trailers

Here are the trailers for our short films. Enjoy!

Enterprise Project - Surveys

As part of the Fiver project we have been setting up mini enterprises in groups of 5. In those groups we have pooled together our £5s, come up with business names, logos and products.


To undertake market research we have created surveys using surveymonkey


If at all possible, could you please respond?


Fountains Galore
PS
Sweet Treats
Cookies Royale
Smoothie Shack

Into Film Project - Session 12 - Part 2

Today we have been finalising our 'The Girl and the Fox' inspired storyboards. We then sequenced them and put them into a 'Shot sequence book' in preparation for filming.

To see how the film is going to look we then used iMovie to film the storyboard. This gave us a good sense of understanding how long each shot needed to be and what sounds may be needed.

Here are three of our group's filmed storyboards:

Into Film Project - Session 12 part 1

A brief update on where we are with our fantastic Into Film project based on the short film 'The Girl and the Fox'.

Over the past few days, we have been split off into five groups and have begun the process of planning films inspired by 'The Girl and the Fox'. We have looked at the themes identified by our Wordle and selected those that we feel we want to tackle.

In our groups we started thought showering ideas for films and then negotiating between us on what sounds like the best ideas.

Finally, we came up with five film ideas:

The five film ideas decided upon were: Magic curtain; Magic glasses; Lost in the woods; Pajama drama in school; and The vanishing football.

We then revised camera angles and discussed which types were best suited for certain scenes. Next we story-mapped out our ideas for our films. Following this, working back in our groups, we sat down and used a laptop to type out our stories with the potential camera angle suggestions on.

Finally we started to draw out our storyboards. We went for the idea of cutting the storyboards up into individual strips for each shot so more of us could work independently to build up the film quicker. We will then glue these, in order, on A3 paper as our filming plan.