Well done everyone for your fantastic help in making this film. There are a few bits to add, but I hope you enjoy it and feel proud. Well done!
Year 5 video
Olympics 2012
Superstar scholarship
Quadblogging
A big thank you to Broadus Wood School in USA for all of their fantastic comments on our blog.

Yesterday MrG went to a big computer show for teachers in London. He met MrG from Trevithick School, our quadblogging partner. They discussed lots of ideas and are making arrangements for the children to Skype next week.
Year 5 films
Google Time
One of the main tools we use for learning is Google docs. This is free software that we have used since September. Work children do is not saved in a computer but on the Internet so children can, and daily do, continue their school work at home. Children have used Google docs to collaborate on stories, spreadsheets, websites and so much more.
We have now started “Google time”. Employees at Google are given 20% of their time to follow and develop their own projects. We are giving this same opportunity in class. Children can choose their own learning projects to pursue.
It will be interesting to see what projects the children will produce over the next few months. Watch this space! The presentation below was made by Daniel during Google Time, and at home.
Quadblogging
Mr Stink

We have been finishing off everyday with our class book, “Mr Stink, by David Walliams.” The book is funny and is written in a similar style to Roald Dahls’ The Twitts. The illustrations are by Quentin Blake.
We have loaded the book down on Kindle, so we can project the book on our big whiteboard and read the story together.
We are a Rights Respecting School
Well done to Olamide, Daniel, Morede, Korede and Amina for working on this presentaion over the weekend about being a Rights Respecting School.
Harris Burdick
This week we wrote three stories based on a book by Chris Van Allsburg, called Harris Burdick. It contains wonderful pictures to inspire our writing. We were concentrating on using a wide range of punctuation. We wrote comments on each others stories, and fifteen children were put in the achievement book.
Jumping for joy
Thank you to Martin and Mr Button at the BBA for giving us the opportunity to try trampolining. It was fantastic fun, but very difficult and bouncy!
Still life
We studied some still life paintings by Cezanne. We then produced pencil sketches and then paintings. It was great fun.
Thank you Denmark
Self portraits
We used a paint program to draw portraits of ourselves. We drew on top of a photo of ourselves; it helped us to look carefully at our face and recognise where to draw lines and shade.
The future
Today we had a filmmaker in our classroom. She was filming the children working on a research project about the future of books. We were also joined by three wonderful adults (Norman, Ann and Chris). they watched and questionned the children as they explored digital books on the whiteboard, laptops, ipads and iphones.
The piano
We have been using the fantastic film “The piano,” to write in interesting and emotive sentences.
The children produced some excellent sentences:
Albert ran sadly towards his mate holding him tightly as if he was a teddy bear. (Gwen)
Frank played the piano; the sorrowful memoroes came back to haunt him. (Daniel)
The old man looks up to the sky hoping we will have a peaceful life up in heaven. (Kelly)
For one minute, he forgot he was in the the middle of a battlefield. He felt like crying. (Charlotte)
100 word challenge – red
This weeks 100 word challenge was red. This proved quite difficult but looking at stories from other schools helped with our writing. We take part in this challenge every week and the children have been fantastic at continuing and improving their work at home. below is karen’s entry in this week competition. Other entrees from Northwood can be viewed by clicking on the 100 words link on the right.
Lightning was crashing outside,as the war was taking its time to progress. It wasn’t a nice experience being in the war ;as every time you sleep you fear being killed. Tonight was dangerous.They said they were going to end the war. I was scared. I could see through the gap in the door;blood was spilling every-where. Every-body died.We lost the war. I served as a slave until I died, but I lived long enough to see the people celebrate on how hard the soldiers did for us. With red poppies.
r=remembrance
e=entity
d=destiny

















