Angels At The Gate

At our two parents evenings this week the school Web Team launched their Angels at the Gate project to encourage parents and relatives to visit their blogs online and leave a comment about their writing.

At Lyndon Green we have been blogging for over six years via the Class 3C blog. Now with some established tools in place and the enthusiasm of the children we are taking blogging to the next level to eventually involve the whole school.

Over the past few weeks class 4D and class 6C have been establishing their blogs and children in 3E, all of year 4 and 6c have had lessons about blogging. Next half term we hope to catch up with the other classes and Year 5 have been planned in for the first week back so watch out for their writing.

Angels at the Gate encourages parents, carers and relatives linked to the children at the school to go online to read the blogs and leave a positive comment.

Children from the Web Team had a display and leaflets to give out at Parents Evening and were able to encourage 70 parents to sign up. So a big thank you to all who did.

Links to the blogs are available at the school website.

Frankenweenie

The children in Year 4 are using the film Frankenweenie to support their writing through the Cornerstones project Blood Bones and Gory Bits.

The iTunes bookstore has just released a (at the time of writing) free book linked to the movie.

It uses an interactive approach to take the reader behind the scenes of the film.

Frankenweenie An Electryfying Book

I Am Learning

Hi we have a new course providing some fun content to help you learn and that lets you play computer games. Here is a brief introduction video to get you started.

Best App used so far

If you like to use Twitter to keep yourself up to date with information from people you follow but sometimes just don't have the to follow through and read all the information your getting then Pocket is the app for you.

Pocket

   It works on Android, iPad, iPod and can be added as ReadLater to a mac.
The link above shows you all you need to know.

Add itslearning to your iPad

Follow this video to add the itslearning VLE to your iPad. Looks like an app but is really just a short cut. Will give children quick access when using school iPads.

E-Safety

At Parents Evening on Tuesday 18th October there will be an E-Safety workshop running throughout. Each repeated session will last between 10 and 15 mins and include a video, help-sheet, updated information about Facebook and a brief time for questions.

The following link gives support and advice about all types of communication over the internet using different types of device.

Espresso for all

We now have home access to Espresso for all pupils in the school. This is made available via the It's Learning school learning platform. There is a vast amount of educational material to support homework and to extend learning. To access the materials children will need to remember their It's Learning log on information. If you are having trouble finding the site here is a link . You may have trouble with access if your browser does not allow secure access. When children log on they need to go to their year group dashboard and there is a link box to Espresso from there.