Summer holidays!

I would like to say to all the children and parents that have very kindly bought me a present or given me a card over the past couple of days a HUGE thank you! It was very kind of you and I appreciate every single thank you and gift.

I also want to wish everyone a wonderful summer holidays and 6 1/2 weeks off! Have fun and enjoy the weather (it is going to be 30 degrees next week!) Don't forget you can still blog over the summer holidays. I will look forward to reading all about your summer!

See you in September and thanks for a great year!
Mr Santy

Busking day performance

Greek poem from Mr Santy on Vimeo.

Introducing:

Perseus - Georgia
Medusa - Lily
King Polydectes - Jack
Danae - Shannon
The Graeae - Amber, Benjamin and Lewis
The 2 gorgons - Callum and Gillian
Hermes - Josh
Athena - Eve

Readers - all of 5/4!

Some of our final animations

We were asked by Mr Santy to make an animation over 15 seconds long, using about 200-300 frames. Here are two of our clips: Callum's car journey to football practice

IMG 0543 from Mr Santy on Vimeo.

Reece's, Jack's and Max's robbery

IMG 0022 from Mr Santy on Vimeo.

Trial animations

We are been looking at animations in class and have used the iPads to create some short clips. We have used the app, iMotion to take photographs (frames) and then stitch them together, increasing the speed to 12 frames per second (as used in cartoons).

This is Benjamin's, Eren's and Harry's football clip:

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This is Shannon's and Gillian's shopping scene:

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This is Reece's and Max's Harry Potter/jail episode:

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This is Kieran M's and Alex's car crash:

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Websites being used in class

We have been using these websites in class.

Here they are for you to have a play:

Animations - Flick book
Greek myths - http://www.wingedsandals.com/
Division by chunking - Maths division using chunking

Our goldfish

Proudly presenting Bubble and Squeak. Bubble and Squeak have been with us since the beginning of the spring term. We all take turns feeding them. There is also a snail called Garry! Isn't that just the best name for a snail? We love our gold fish.

Art week in the 5/4 Deers

The children at Roydon Primary School have been involved in art week this week. To begin with we looked at Henri Matisse and tried to recreate some Matisse style paintings, mixing colours and using the correct brush strokes.

Within our maths lessons we learnt about tessellating shapes. We also experimented with tangrams.

Here are some of our repeating patterns and some of our tangram designs.

In class this week we have also designed clay medals. We have been learning about Ancient Greece and that the Olympics started in 776BC.

We have also learnt about the Greek gods and goddesses and when they have appeared in various Greek myths. Below are some of our paintings.