Saturday 27 April 2013

Inter-generation iPad club


Cefn Fforest’s Digital Leaders have been working hard this week organising their first club as Digital Leaders.  They decided that it would be a good idea to get parents, grandparents and family members involved in what they have been doing by setting up an iPad club.
The aim is to work with the adults, showing them how we use iPads in our school but also to show them how iPads can be used on a daily basis in their own lives. The club will look at many things ranging from simple navigation around the iPad to using specific apps in terms of how they work and what can be produced. The DL’s will also teach the adults how to use safari and what can be done with photos and videos that have been taken. The club will hopefully strengthen links with our families but also give the DL’s more responsibility and more of an opportunity to develop their own skills.



 With the club running once a month it won’t be too onerous for the DL’s and will ensure they have the time to complete their ever growing list of responsibilities. They’re doing an amazing job and they absolutely love being DL’s. They constantly look for things to do and get on with their jobs with real purpose and enjoyment. The way they are going they won’t need a mentor at all!!!!
If anyone runs a club like this at the moment and have any advice please feel free to comment on this post or catch us on twitter @cefnprimary or to speak to me specifically @cefnprimaryls

Thursday 25 April 2013

Football Tournament


Hey guys! It's Holly and Olivia here! Wewent with the boys to Risca to compete in the football tournament. We took some amazing photos of the boys playing and we will be putting an imovie up on our school website shortly. We came 5th and sadly didn't make it through to the regional finals :( But the boys had fun anyway!

We all had a great day and had so much fun and we were happy for the team who won anyway!

Overall we had a great experiance and the day was great!

Holly and Olivia

Wednesday 17 April 2013

Art exhibition

Hey guys! Its Joseph and Daniel here! on the 16/4/13 we had our art exhibition in the hall, there was tea, buiscits and everything you could imagine. Everybody who had a piece of art in the exhibition tried extremely hard, we had a auction and the auctioniers were Olivia Lane and Milly Davies, one of the paintings in the auction was sold for £9.00 that was by Phoebie Hopkins and another was sold for £7.00 which was by Holly McDonald! OMG!!!!

        
On most of the paintings/drawings the were QRcodes which you can create on an app called Qrafter. It is a very usefull because you can create them, you can scan them and you can stick them on work. There were three settees in the exhibition and aswell as two benches.

Guys please leave a comment or ask a question about our favourite piece of art. Thanks for reading, Joe and Dan.  

World war II

Hey guys! Olivia and Taylah here! On friday 13/04/13 we had a visitor 'which time travelled' from world war II. Her name was Mrs Gladys Jones and she told us all about The Blitz which is our new topic in school.She came to our school in a Welfare officers uniform and she also brought with her a navy uniform, an R.A.F uniform, a millitary captains uniform and a soliders uniform.

There was volenteers to do a shouting competition. One of the girls pertended to be an air raid siren and another girl pretended to wind the siren ( which was her arm). Then the women asked for a boy and a girl volenteer to pretend to be doing an air raid drill which ment they had to crawl under a table. A boy stood up and put a police helmet on ( which was a metal police helmet from the blitz and then the lady dropped a tin can on his head).

What was your favourite part of your week? Leave your answers in the comments!

Thats all from us for now, hope you enjoyed reading our blog!

Olivia and Taylah

Sunday 14 April 2013

Our first assembly

Hey guys! Dan, Holly, Mason and Joe here! We had our first ever Digital leaders assembly yesterday with Mr Stone, it was so fun. We talked about our moodle site (http://learn.caerphilly.org.uk/cefnfforestprimary) to show the Year 3 and 4 children how it worked. We showed them the front page where it shows the race for attendance, the first and second newspaper issues, our twitter posts including our followers and the school news part.


We talked about all the different links to different websites such as cool maths games, wordle, maths fun and woodland games which are all on our Kids zone part, our Audio Boo site (where we interviewed Mrs Farmer), IT zone and our own Digital Leaders Blog spot (http://cefnprimarydl.blogspot.co.uk/). We have nearly 600 views!!! 


We also popped in and out of some of the different classrooms like Miss James and Mr Stone’s classrooms to show the younger children how to get into the classrooms and what they could do in the classrooms. There’s a wall were they can post different things like a wall on Facebook , they can see what their homework is in the home and school work area and we have a gallery were they can look at photos and videos about the things that they have been up to.
We really enjoyed doing the assembly and are looking forward to meeting the Governors in May. We’re showing them the Moodle site and how the iPads work.