Newton PS Winthrop Australia Ongoing PD

Year 5 students editing their video of a Chapter re-tell of the Novel 'Hatchet'. Year 3 students sharing out their procedural videos with their peers for feedback. Both the Year 3's in Mrs Sattel's class and Year 5's in Mrs Stewart's class worked on creating video products. Firstly, they recorded their videos in the camera app and added text overlays in the app too. Then they put all their movies together in iMovie app and refined them by adding introductions/conclusions or audio recordings to match their movies. They were very accomplished directors.

 The Year 2's in Mrs Kelsey's class continued developing their creative writing stories with a scary genre. They created settings and characters that matched their story boards and created eBooks for their parents and family to review. The art works and descriptive language are certainly scary!

Some of the fractions and multiplication question QR code questions. The year 5 and 6 students in Mrs Landsbury's class had the opportunity to apply their fractions and multiplication skills a Maths quiz with a difference using the iPads from the 1:1 iPad kit. Using QR codes created by their teacher using QRstuff on the web, the students tested themselves using their iPad to self assess and independently revise their skills. The students were honest, engaged and self directed during the quiz. Mrs Landsbury had not seen a Maths quiz like it before!

Scripting a summary and breaking down poems line by line Shooting the summary and each line of the poem as an individual video in camera app on the iPad Using props and effects to enhance the horror genre of the poem. In Mrs Allen's class the Year 3 and 4 students used the drafts of their scary halloween poems to create videos of read-aloud of their poems. First, they deconstructed the poem in their writing books checking that rhyming conventions and appropriate adjectives were used. Then they practiced reading with voice. The students then learned how to shoot and edit video in the camera app on the iPad. Finally, they used props and effects to record their poem read-aloud. The atmosphere was like Halloween!

The students shared out their eBooks using the Apple TV. Mrs Allen's class finished their eBooks titled "The Best Things About Me". They used Book Creator app to import simple and complex images from various web-based search engines to enhance their descriptive writing. They also learned how to mark-up or edit their images to create a colour based theme to enhance their descriptive writing for their audience.

  The Year 5 students in Mrs Stewart's class finalised their creative writing eBooks using Book Creator app. They used the play mode to self-assess and even peer-assess their creative writing and book design skills.