Agnes reviews Scratch

Scratch is a great coding website , where coding is made easy.  The programming can be made either easy or hard. I would suggest it to 7- 11 year olds. It is only a small fee to download it on your computer or tablet (or is free to use on the Internet - Miss M). I thoroughly suggest you use the website version at first, as it has guides to how to make games and animations. This is a very fun website and I hope you enjoy using it, as i really do.

by Agnes

Digital Leaders applications March 2014

Good luck to all those applying to be Digital Leaders.  Remember, the deadline is next Tuesday, March 11th 2014.  The DLs will be considering your application on Wednesday.

Newbridge DLs trial some new apps for school

At Digital Leaders recently we have been looking at new apps that could be put onto the I-pads. These include:

• Numbler
• Easy Measure
• Daisy the Dino
• Cato's Hike

Reviewing them we have decided that Daisy the dino is a good app for school because it is easy to use, you can start to program and we think it would be ideal for years 3 & 4 and we have found a way to link this into our learning because on our school computers we have a programming app called Kodu .There is another programming app called Cato's hike which we have decided is not as good as Daisy the dino.

Children's FIRST EVER meeting with Staff

 The Staff Meeting

by Charlie S and Raff W

On Wednesday 16th January, there was a staff meeting that involved kids. Mrs Malone started by introducing the digital leaders and their workshops. Then the teachers spread out to the various workshops such as KS2 maths (by Rafferty and Tommy) , Digital Storytelling (By Charlie .S), KS1 phonics (Charlie .O and Mazy), Digital Imagery (Lottie), KS1 maths (Joel and Morgan) and the basics taught by Raff.

The apps we used were:

Maths

• Pearl Diver HD
• Mathemagics
• 5 Dice
• Educreations

Digtial Storytelling

• Morfo Booth
• Toontastic
• PuppetPals HD

Digital Imagery

• Camera
• PicCollage
• Artset

Phonics

• Mr. Phonics

Storytelling

• Tinytap
• Storywheel
• Collins Big Cat Books

"We all thought that the children were FANTASTIC teachers!"    -Miss Amies

"Digital leaders were superb, fantastic teachers and knew there subject well, one of the BEST staff meetings EVER!"-Mr. Cumpson

By Charlie .S & Raff  .W

Morgan is a DL

Hiya I am Morgan
 
I am very confident in ICT and work with my family at home on our pc, netbook, laptop, Ipod touch and Ipad.

In school my class has be making blogs on posterous and I am often bloging and home.

Iam really looking forward to teaching your children at Newbridge primary school.

Bye for now


 

I'm Lottie

Hi I'm Lottie

My strength in ICT is blogging and I love blogging because you can display whatever you want. Also, anybody can see what you think even if they're on the other side of the world.

Recently in ICT I have been uploading music onto my MP3 player, blogging and using publisher to create party invites and thank-you letters.

I am excited about being a digital leader because I can improve my skills and learn new skills. I will also enjoy trying out new things. 

Lottie

Hi I'm Charlie

Hi I'm Charlie..

Hello, My name is Charlie. I am 11 Years Old and I am a Digital Leader here at Newbridge Primary School. I'm a Digital Leader because I wanted to grow ICT (IT) in Newbridge and give all the children in my year and below to make ICT more fun and easier to use!

There has been a rumour going round that we are getting iPads and more ICT resources. The Digital leaders are here to help you learn the basics of how to use the new resources. We might even be running a club later in the year.

What The Digital Leaders Will Do...

We will test out all new technology and everything that the school gets thats to do with ICT. We will learn the basics and then teach you! We will then slowly build up and teach you how to use it to do what you want.

What Am I Excited About?

As everybody knows, I'm most excited about the iPads...Which most of us are! I am also excited about the new Programs and technology we will be getting. Going right into the "iPad subject" I am most excited about the apps we might be reviewing and testing. And also, reviewing apps is really fun!

Hope you liked this blog......