Term 4, Week 5

Week 5 is Assessment week for the senior school.

Do your best and good luck!

Term 4, Week 4 Learning Links

This week students in the senior room had a task of planning, designing and producing their very own DVD cover for the movies they made during Movie Making.

Term 4, Week 3

For all the latest learning occurring in the Grade 3-6 classroom.

Term 4, Week 2

What have the students from Grade 3-6 been learning this week?

Learning Links Term 4 Week 1

Coming back from another holiday break means 18 senior school students with plenty to share. These are the holiday highlights from the senior room.

Term 3, Week 7 Learning

This week we will be focusing on neat handwriting, proof reading and explore money, all this and much, much more!

Term 3, Week 6

This week students are busy getting into the final stages of their Movie Making projects, they continue to develop procedure writing skills and improve upon addition and subtraction in maths.

Movie Making Reflections

This week we went to Caledonian Primary School for a lesson with a movie producer Michael Green. It will be a big second half to term 3 as we prepare our movies for showing to the CASS judges. 

What we learnt from Michael Green:

§  How to holding the camera to get good footage and the different types of movie genres. Max

§  What the other school are doing for their movies. Alanah

§  Steady ways to hold the camera e.g. turn your hips not your whole body. Ashanti

§  To turn your hips when doing a swish pan. Emily

§  How to make someone disappear with clever editing. Kailee

§  I learnt about all the different movie genres like horror, comedy etc. Jude

§  How to change the setting that allows you to shorten and crop scenes. Camryn

§  To keep the camera as still as possible. Connor

§  The iPad will focus on the brightest thing it is pointing at. Clayton

§  All the different body positions you should use to hold an iPad from shaking. Charlotte

§  You can use reflectors to either block sun or add light to a subject. Jacksen

§  You can do magic on an iPad by making people disappear. Tom R

§  I learnt lots of little tips and tricks to use when editing movies. Sophie

§  It’s important to say “action” when you’re ready for people to act. Bailey

§  Storyboards are important in planning you movie. Felicity

§  To use your body to turn the camera. Patrick

§  Not to continue rolling with filming, short scenes are easier to edit. Gabbi

§  I’ve improved my ability to edit using iMovie by changing a few settings. Jasper

Term 3, Week 5

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Term 3, Week 4

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Term 3 Week 3 Learning Links

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