This week Year 5 have been very creative and cross-curricular in their computing lessons, producing their own historical videos to capture The Raid in Lindisfarne. This is a historic and well-known barbaric Viking attack on…
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Year 3: Sir John Soane’s Museum & Internet Safety Workshop
This week has been a big week in Year 3. On Wednesday both Emerald Class and Green Class ventured down to Sir John Soane’s Museum. Sir John Soane, an architect born in the 1700s, was…
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A hard-working week for all involved! We had the Three Discovery Workshop this week in Year 4, they gave an amazing talk about online safety and age restrictions. Alan Parker had a very interesting discussion…
Read MoreFable Explorer Robot playing table tennis
Do you remember Fable Robots that we have got? So this is our first project, ‘Throw a Ball’. It is specifically tailored for use during physical education lessons and breaks, enhancing children’s engagement in activities…
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and yet another fantastic website about Online Safety! Online safety with Virgin Media O2 ‘At Virgin Media O2, we want internet users of all ages to enjoy all the wonderful things the web has to…
Read MoreEducational modular robots for STEM learning – a 21st-century educational tool is now in St Joseph’s School!
As part of our STEM learning our school received two Fable robots that can be used for and by our students! Fable Explore comes with a Fable Joint module that gives the functionality of an…
Read MoreYear 4: Computing lesson. Adding your own content.
This week, in Computing the pupils learned what are the advantages and disadvantages of adding your own content. We had a fantastic discussion about the positive aspects of being able to share and communicate through…
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We ask all children, young people, and adults involved in the life of St Joseph’s School to sign an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), which is a document that outlines how we expect them to behave…
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Year 1 students are very excited to use our learning platform called Busy Things. BusyThings combines fun and laughter with the highest quality of curriculum-linked content. This week children will get their QR logins that…
Read MoreYear 3: A week that ‘rocked’
This week the children have been diving further into their learning all about rocks. We have been trying to master the new challenging vocabulary ‘igneous’, ‘sedimentary’, and ‘metamorphic’. The children did a great job categorising…
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