14 Days Until Christmas

We have been very busy with Christmas related activities in R5. We have been using the Literacy Shed videos as inspiration for our writing. Here are two adverts from John Lewis.

Today we used our senses to write poems about Christmas. We published these poems in many different ways. Here is some of our finished work.

How to look after Chromebooks

Today we used the Chromebook Guidelines we created to make movies using iMovie on the iPad. It was a hard process.


Here is a movie by Sebastian, Jessica and Rory. They were so determined to finish their movie that they worked through lunchtime!

Untitled from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Safe Places

As part of Kia Kaha, we have been talking about the places in school that we feel safe to play. The children in Room 5 were set a group challenge of recording a video on the iPad of themselves in both a safe and unsafe place to play within the school. They made some great videos, here are the results.

Future Playgrounds on Minecraft

As part of our Learning Pathways topic: Future Focus, we spent a big chunk of term 3 creating futuristic playgrounds on Minecraft.

We used our designs to create playgrounds on Minecraft, we then had to take screenshots of the most important features in our playgrounds and import them into iMovie. We then used iMovie to make movies about our playgrounds. 

Here are some of the movies.

Our cool minecreaft playground from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Life Education

Over the past two weeks we have been going into a special classroom called the Life Education Caravan. We have been learning all about being happy and healthy and we met Harold the giraffe!

Today during writing, we jotted down some ideas about what we had learned. Then we chose the most important idea to record on the iPad.

Here is a video showing what we learnt about the human body.

Here is a video showing what we learnt about feelings and being a good friend.

Young Poets

We have been writing poems in Room 5. We have been thinking about how to describe an object by considering what it might look, taste, feel, sound and smell like.

Here is a poem by Mariam about a rose. She has used some amazing language.

This is a poem about strawberries written by Jessica.