Hope CE Primary School

Faster and faster my wheels turned, round the corner leaping bump to bump on the uneven ground.

My speed picking up incredibly quick as I followed the herd, I slip and slide around the bend and gripped my tyres. Past the swaying trees in the woodland to the left of me, at amazingly high speed. As I followed on I had a funny and stomach quenching idea, that my rider hadn’t seen the huge stone just lying in the middle of the track in the exact same direction we were heading. Gripping my wheels and brakes trying as hard as i could to slow down and stop, I jerked forward my wheel in great pain. I lay there on my side facing the fallen rider, lay still on the ground in front of me.

 I looked up and saw a grazed knee, a member of staff knelt at my side, and a dozen eyes just gazing at me. In pure embarrassment I stood up in shock, also wondering what had just happened. The member of staff picked up my quad, i got back on and we continued our dangerous journey onward.

Crank your speakers up then click here to watch the latest installment from Hope School’s own George Lucas.

If you want to make your own animations it need not cost anything. Edward has made all of the Light Wars series at home.

Animation made with MonkeyJam

Sound from Audacity

Put together with Movie Maker

Edward would be pleased to answer questions about his animations. Please add a comment/question.

If you haven’t found the Amsterdam 2007 blog yet, with mobile podcasts and photos, click on the Dutch flag now!

Clever things mobiles. We’ll be using the school mobile out in Amsterdam to podcast regualarly to the folks back home via Gabcast. Click on the Dutch flag to visit the Amsterdam 2007 blog to pick up a recording. Thanks to the ICT facilities of the British School of Amsterdam we’ll be regualarly updating the Amsterdam 2007 blog when we are out there.

Year 5/6s will get a handy card with some Dutch phrases and a currency converter before we go to Amsterdam. 

If you want to have a practice at home, you can always download it here.

Pirate Hunter and the curse of the deadly jewel

Chapter 1: Mysterious happenings

It was all mist. Mist, mist, mist. A perfect day for robbing villages and coastal towns. The mist was as thick as dust. Mist was not a nice thing to be around in. Unpleasant, scary feelings that creep up your back-bones like a spider climbs up their web. A ship came out of the gloom. The dull brown bow emerged out of the fog. Mist parted so that grey sails came into sight. The fore mast was covered in dust and dirt making it look like it was so old. Then the main mast sailed into view, and on the top of it was… the Jolly Roger! The sails had grime and dirt on them as well. On the poop deck stood old man, his face looked withered with age. His hat, a dark brown lined with black cotton stolen from the heart of Jamaica filled with cob-webs and dirt. With a hook instead of a hand and a sword in his belt. This man was captain of the most feared ship in all the Caribbean, the ‘The Rapier’. A crew member of the ship walked out of the hold. ‘Cap’n’ he said in a gruff voice ‘where will ye be headin.’
‘Weel be headin’ for….’
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Year 5 and 6 represented Hope School at the Shropshire ICT conference at Albrighton Hall hotel.

Andrew interviewed conference keynote speaker Ewan McIntosh to explore his thoughts on school blogs and podcasts. The interview is podcasted here.

Four short videos by Edward Pomfret, top animator

Click here to view

(Warning: Contains scenes some lego people may find upsetting)

Amsterdam trip

Slides from the information evening can be found here.

Many thanks to Mary Webb Science College who provided kits to enable the Year 5/6s to enter the Solar Buggy Challenge as  part of National Science Week.

Year 5/6s had great fun designing and building their buggies

Watch a video of the race here.