Over the last three days, Year 8 students from Our Lady and St. Chad’s Catholic Sports College have been creating short animated films. The students have learned the basic skills of stop-frame animation, planning, storyboarding, shooting and editing.

Here are the finished films:

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Today Year 5 students spent the day at the CLC finding out about Healthy Living. They have already done some wok on food groups, calculating heart rate and the effects of exercise on the heart. The students worked in small groups to test and record various body measurements.

The students were able to explore:

• The importance of water
• How food helps the body
• The way to prepare for exercise
• Measuring fitness
• Recording measurements
• Creating a ‘Healthy Living’ poster of the day

What the teacher said:
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In the final day of their Space project, Y8 students from Aldersley High School edited together their podcast sections, learned about living in space, explored the International Space Station using the Virtual International Space Station and designed and built Mars Landers. They were also presented their T-shirts, designed during Day 1.

• Listen to the Aldersley High podcast

What the students said about the project:

hi, i really enjoyed the three days in wolverhampton city learning centre. i wish i could come again, im not just saying that cause i got to miss 2 french lessons.

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 Aldersley High Space Podcast [13:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This podcast was created by Y8 students from Aldersley High School. The students worked in groups to research a topic connected to Space, and to record sections of the podcast. We then linked the sections together, and added an introduction. The topics covered in the podcast are:

• The use of animals in space exploration.
• The Moon Landing “Hoax” conspiracy
• Could there be life on other planets?
• UFOs - alien or otherwise
• The Mercury Seven (the USA’s first astronauts)

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Today, the Year 8 students from Aldersley created their own sections of a space podcast. Each group of students worked on a different topic:

• The use of animals in space exploration.
• The Moon Landing “Hoax” conspiracy
• Could there be life on other planets?
• UFOs - alien or otherwise
• The Mercury Seven (the USA’s first astronauts)

Students collected relevant links to a delicious account (http://del.icio.us/clcresearch), and then planned and recorded using GarageBand on Apple Macs. They had to focus on the key ideas in their topic and find an effective way to communicate their ideas to an audience. The podcast sections will be edited together tomorrow morning and posted to the podcast section of the website.

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