St Albans Values Voicethread

Our Values Work

We worked together for a few days exploring the values and what they mean to us.

First we used Y charts to brainstorm what we thought each value looked like, felt like and sounded like. We used this thinking to create pictures for each value in kidpix.
Next we created slogans for the values and voted on each others ideas. We had votes to use. We could use these votes any way we wanted. We could give one idea 8 votes or 8 ideas one vote each. It was fun.
We then put our thinking together in different ways to share with the school. One group created a survey which is below, another group made an imovie, one group made a voice thread (that was tricky) and the last group made a key note presentation.










Please use the comment feature on this post to tell us what you think about the pictures.

You can vote for the slogans using the survey.

Thanks
The Year 4 GATE team
Maddy, Phoebe, Nate, Sky, Heathcliff, Dom, Kezia, Brydie, Amelia, Ngatai, Adam and Stavros

Survey about the values

Who or What am I?

A group of gorgeous young writers have been working on some writing to share.

We looked at other author's examples of 'who am I' clues and then tried to write our own. We tried to trick our readers into thinking our who am I was in fact something else.

When we had finished our writing we put our work into keynote which is like powerpoint. We then cut our pictures into pieces to go with our clues. We added transitions to make things zoom in and out of our movie.

When we finished the teachers made them into movies.

They look very good and we are feeling proud of our work.

Bella

Caleb

Emma

Estella

Jacob

Libby

Maddie

Olivia

Rosie

Ruby

Thesara

Robert

Niamh

Lachlan

Aliana

Movies about St Albans School

Some children from Year 4 worked together to create movies that celebrate our school.

The first job was to take quality photos of life around St Albans to use in the movie.

We then had to choose a way of organising these images. After a lot of discussion it was decided to use; our values, an A-Z, the thinking hats and the past, present and future.

We have entered the movies in an eTime competition. The movie with the most views is the winner. So tell your friends and get watching!

An A-Z of St Albans School

by Zoe, Ngahiraka and Hilary

St Albans and the Thinking Hats

by Finn, Whiti and Ava

St Albans and Our Values

by Roisin, Pieta and Annabel

Past, Present and Future of St Albans

by Ethan, Jack and Emma

The Magic Box

Last term we looked at a wonderful poem by Kit Wright. We discussed it with Mrs Ward and Mrs Howison and then had a go at writing our own.

We worked hard on including language features to make our writing richer; alliteration, personification, adjectives, adverbs and abstract ideas.

We found images to support our poem on the internet and then put it together using Keynote.

Here are our poems.

Adam's Magic Box

Brydie's Poem

Gemma's Poem

George's Magic Box

Kezia's Poem

Lydia's Poem

Nate's Magic Box

Phoebe's Poem

Safiya's Magic Box

Trinity's Magic Box

Thomas' Poem

Our Environmental Inquiry Evening

Last Term a group of 15 Year 5 and 6 students involved in an extension opportunity with Mrs Hunter hosted an evening to share and celebrate the end product of extensive inquiry spinouts. An environmental theme produced a diverse range of questions and directions for student research. The evening was a huge success with in excess of 55 parents and friends in attendance. As many of the students selected Powerpoint as a medium in which to present their work, posting their work on the Blog was difficult. We have included a slide or two from individual projects alongside photographs from the evening.