Recording shhhhhhhh!

Prince

and Minty

This week, we have been interviewing  members of staff for our next great project. One of the groups is onto the next stage..keep checking back for more information!   Some of the club played games or made two new Top trump cards because we have two new pets called Minty and Prince. Special mention to Thomas on his 10th birthday today now in double digits.   Have you got a pet???  Leave us a comment, please.

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Top Trumps Finished

We are so happy that we made our top trumps cards.  They are great fun, before half term, we had a school trip to Cuffly and Mrs Cooper brought the cards, we played them on the coach. It was great fun.  If anyone who isnt in ICT club would like to have a game, at break or lunchtime, please ask Mrs Cooper.

Adam with some cards

David checking his Top Trumps ratings!

We are hoping to add a few more cards as we get new pets too!









Here is 56AD's class hamster David, check back soon, for a film of Jim and David!

Top Trumps cards - Second Draft

This week we worked on our cards again, and decided that using Word Art for the pet name, made a big improvement, this card also has the background changed to yellow, how do you think it looks?

We have a few more cards to make then we can print out a set and get playing!  We were a little sad in ICT club, because Bob the guinea pig who had a stroke at the end of last term, became much more ill and we are sorry to say she passed away.

Johnny Top Trumps card

Work in Progress - Whitehill Pets Top Trumps cards

Having compiled our list of pets and recorded the scores for each of the categories, we then had to decide who would make which card. The fairest way Mrs Cooper thought, was to use a great bit of freeware called The Hat, it shuffles through the list, on screen and then randomly picks a name from those entered. 

Rabia's Bob card

Rabia was pleased the Hat picked her name for Bob, as he is in her current class! Here is a Publisher screen grab of her first draft of the Top Trump card

And here is a screen grab of  The Hat, you click on Shuffle  and one from your list is selected.

 

The Hat, make your own class or club list (thanks Tim)

 

Top Trumps

We have been looking at other packs of this game as we decide how we want our "Whitehill Pets past and present - TOP TRUMPS" to look.  We love animals at our school and really thought it would be a great idea to see them all together, those we have loved and that are no longer with us.  We have lots at the moment and they are always popular,  for all those children just started in year 3, we thought they would like to see JUST how many pets there have been here!

Top Trumps cards

Planning with Primary Pad!

Today was our first club session, we started with everyone sharing which ICT activity they either really enjoyed or as yet hadnt had a chance to do at Whitehill Junior School. Then Mrs Cooper said we are going to make our own set of Top Trumps cards. As we are first doing this as a whole club activity, we needed to decide what our card set would be, and the categories. We found a fun way to do this by logging onto a web page that Mrs Cooper had set up using Primarypad

Primary pad is a great free tool, that allows a group of people to contribute LIVE to one document. So instead of writing all our ideas down on paper and then someone typing it into word, we can all input into our shared idea. What's more Mrs Cooper can see who contributed what, as you sign into the webpage, so we are sure that everyone has played a part in the planning of our first new project. We can export the pad to a word document to each follow up on our next stage.

Check back for more updates and we hope your new term is going great!