Year 2 Bee Bots and iPods as part of the Cross-curricular ICT in Year 2 classrooms.

These are the ICT posters available on the downloads page. Hop on over or try and rip the ones you want from here. Thanks

Year 2 Bee Bot App for Maths

Year 2 Cross-Curricular ICT Lesson 2012. The new in-class teaching and learning in ICT.

I made a simple Google Presentation to show the children a: what the Olympics is about (all the children are multi-lingual and English is either a second, third or distant language). The children need as much visual stimulus as possible - part of the reasoning behind using QR codes and the devices.

Day 3 - The T-Ball What an amazing day, we had our usual early rise and shine starting off the day with a great buffet breakfast. It was T-Ball day and we arrived at the beautiful Dulwich Beijing sports ground to the cheers of our loyal parent supporters with their horns and TES pompoms! The children got straight to work by playing in a series of T-Ball games which would determine which teams would make it to the finals. I never realised why we practised T-Ball so much during our ECA practices, but after our day today, I could see the huge part of the FOBISSEA games that the event took. Unlike yesterday,where individual medals could be won by doing your best for yourself, T-Ball really did require a lot of TTT- thinking, tactics and teamwork. Watching the Year 4s play was exciting and nerve racking at the same time...but they really did make a super team. Shubh was a quick thinking pitcher working really well with Gill on first base and Jun Sung as backstop. We had some great fielding by Sean, Svente and Lachlan with their good stopping and large throws. Well done to Tiffany who took a brave stop and blocked a strong hit. Jeni, Jade and Wendy gave some good hits and sprinted home. One tactic TES will definitely be remembered for will be its Stop and Scare tactic, which envied by others has been mastered by Natalie, Nikitha and Shubh but with varying levels of 'Scare'.

Day 2 - Competition begins! Lunch was taken at the next venue, the Dulwich Beijing sports fields where the athletics meet was to be held. Results were equally impressive at that venue but as yet we have not collated the results. When done I will post them here. As with the swimming it was another hugely successful meet for our champion team and one which again overshadowed last year's great results. All credit again to the strong will and determination of our students! Gold medals were abundant, as were the no less important minor medals and best times and distances put in by all our students when not winning medals. We returned back to the hotel at 7pm, 12 hours and many medals later! How we will ever get this lot through the metal detectors at the airport, we'll never know. Tomorrow sees the first of the team games, T-Ball which will also take place at the Dulwich College sports fields. We are all looking forward to another successful day and will fill you in on all our results this time tomorrow. Wish us luck!

Day 2 - Competition begins! After a good sleep, and an early rise the group were up and eager to go. Not necessarily to the competitions, but to see what spread was being provided at the breakfast buffet! When we'd all had our fill and were ready to go it was discovered we had suffered our first loss of the day; Jasmine Liou had lost a tooth! Undeterred, TES set off to find some gold. On the bus by 7 am and at the pool by 8am the swimmers were in and warming up. Looking around at the competition it was clear that the day wasn't necessarily going to belong to us. It was always going to be difficult to top the wonderful efforts of last year's games at Taipei, but top it we did! There were great efforts all round and no one swimming group stood out such was the effort put in by all our swimmers. We started the day wonderfully with a huge chant which had the pool complex shaking with the might of TES. All age groups were outstanding and it is a huge pat on the back to all our fabulous swimmers, knowing the difficulties involved with getting together for practice, that we competed as well as we did, proud in the knowledge that we left the pool with a weight of medals. The relays especially were outstanding. Individually our swimmers started the day superbly with Jade taking out a bronze medal in the opening 100m IM and then Shubh following that up with gold in the race 2, also the 100m IM. I'm flat out seeing 100m, let alone swim that far using all four strokes! Ellie bravely followed that up with a position just outside the medals and then Josh, a day after his birthday, became our second gold medal winner in only the fourth race of the day. 7 bronze medals in the next 7 races had us all thinking that this could be a great day for the boys and girls in blue, white and yellow! Those swimmers were Alicia, John (both 100m IM), Natalie, Tiffany, Sean, Gil (25m Free) and Jasmine (toothless of course) in the 25m freestyle. Chloe was the pipped on the post for 3rd in the following race. I'll wizz through the remaining events, highlighting some of the outstanding races by the TES group: 25m freestyle - Yr 5 Dheeman silver, Jimmy 4th, Yr6 Hani silver, Nina Silver, Lenny 5th, Yuki 4th. 25m Backstroke - Yr 4 Natalie 5th, Tiffany silver, Gil silver, Sean bronze, Yr 5 Chloe 4th, Victoria 4th, Jimmy silver, Matthew silver, Yr6 Nina silver, Elizabeth bronze, Yuki 5th, Billy bronze, 25m Butterfly - Yr4 Jade bronze, Shubh Silver, Yr5 MAriangela 5th, Josh silver, Yr 6 Alicia silver and John bronze. 25m Breaststroke - Yr 4 Tiffany silver, Wendy bronze, Sean 4th, Lachlan 3rd, Yr 5 Jasmine 4th, Chloe 5th, Dheeman 4th, Jimmy 4th, Yr6 Nina bronze, Hani 4th, Lenny silver, Yuki 4th 4x25m Medley - Yr 4 girls silver and boys bronze, Yr 5 girls silver and boys gold, Yr6 girls silver and boys gold. 50m Free - Yr4 Jade silver, Svante bronze, Yr5 Mariangelan4th and Josh gold, Yr6 Aileen silver and Axel bronze. 50m Backstroke - Yr4 Wendy silver, Jun Sung silver, Yr5 Charlene 4th, Milledge bronze (almost dead-heat with 1st and 2nd!), Yr 6 Aileen silver and Billy bronze. 50m Breaststroke - Yr4 Nikitha silver, Lachlan bronze, Ellie gold, Brian gold, Yr 6 Hannah silver and Axel 4th. 4x25m Free relay - Yr4 girls 4th and boys bronze, yr 5 girls silver and boys gold, yr6 girls gold and boys bronze. Tyre relay - Yr4 gold, Yr5 bronze, Yr 6 bronze. As you can see, not many races went by without a medal and even those that did were only split seconds off reaching one.

The first day... What a BLUR! After a 4.45am meet-up at the EPC the , bleary eyed 2012 FOBISSEA group representing TES were off. The spirits, despite the early hour, were high and everyone was super excited about what the day ahead was to deliver us. The airport check-in went extremely well and before we knew it we were touching down at Beijing Capital Airport, although we hardly realised we were there with the hazy skies closing in. The Harrow School, Beijing representatives were there to meet and greet us and led us to the awaiting buses. The excitement was now building, especially on seeing the TES logo in the windscreen of the bus! The next journey was to the Beijing Aquarium where Mr Milner had organised for us to see the dolphin show. Something about trying to get us in the mood for the swimming competition!!! We had a great afternoon wandering the aquarium and getting used to being together as a group. We finished off what was a huge and very tiring day with the welcome dinner hosted at the Metropark Hotel in Beijing by Harrow School. A simple but delicious meal was had by all and the competitors had the opportunity to mingle with the other students whom they will be competing against. We think we can take 'em!!! As you can imagine, eyes were drooping by 8pm and it did not take long for everyone to have showered and prepared for the first of our big days, the Swimming and Athletics Competitions! Check in tomorrow to see how we got on!

Scratch Day 2012

iPad Apps for Early Years

These images are from the building of the trolley to the ordering of additional equipment needed to support the use of iPads in school. Namely, Reception classes.

The series for the claymation set up. The studio we made out of a large reclaimed storage unit.

The images from the iPad project in Reception.

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ICT Posters to be printed and added to your ICT lab

This is my classroom. It has a set of Year 1 children here enjoying their Golden Time on www.Poissonrouge.com - possibly the greatest site for under 5's. You can also see: Equipment area, dark room, TA putting up displays, my desk area and Internet hanging display.

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Lomography is the use of specific camera types and film types. The club used a digital camera and then post processed the images to suit the styles. We used Panit.net to edit all our images.