ICT Clubs Video Conference

Scargill Infant T-shirt project and Parkhill Junior Film Making project

Today children from our ICT clubs held a video conference to talk about their work.The children from Year 1 at Scargill Infant school told the Year 6 children at Parkhill about their ICT club project to design a T-shirt picture.

The children at Scargill Infants had drawn pictures using the computer program TextEase - Paint. These pictures were then transferred to special paper and ironed on to a T-shirt.

The children proudly wore their T-shirts and explained all about this project.The pictures were extremely detailed and they had created very complicated backgrounds using shapes and different colours.

The T-shirts were beautiful. Parkhill Junior Year 6 children asked them a wide range of questions about the software, how easy it was to draw using this program, their ideas and the time it had taken to complete the work.

The Parkhill children then explained how they were creating animations using stop frame camera pictures. The main focus for the first film was speech and how they were making a speaking face with a plasticine mouth.

Parkhill - Year 3 and Scargill - Year 2 Video Conference

Sharing Work

The children at Parkhill and Scargill had another video conference link today. Parkhill's Class 3D shared some of their classwork with Scargill's Class 4.

Mrs Dorling and Class 3D talked about their artwork. They had been learning how to draw portraits and had painted self portraits.

They had also made books by folding a large sheets of A3 paper to produce a booklet. The children were then able to write and illustrate these books. They had written about a wide range of different topics.

The children from Class 4 at Scargill Infants asked some very interesting questions about the work. They wanted to know how Class 3D had learnt to draw a face, mixed the colours and painted the features. They were interested to know the part of the face that had been most difficult to draw.

Their teacher, Miss Haskew, was particularly interested to find out how the children had folded the paper to make the booklet and her class were very keen to try this out for themselves.

This was another successful video conference that everyone enjoyed. This is now a regular link and we look forward to the next session.