Year 4 Tudors Video Conferencing Workshop

Some of our Year 4 children today took part in a National Archives VC workshop, given by Education Officer, Catherine. We were treated to a look at the confession statement of Guy Fawkes, the SOS message from the Titanic and the Royal Seal of Henry VIII. Catherine had to wear gloves when handling some of the documents. Why do you think that was..?

The session was excellent - the children listened really well and gave some brilliant answers to Catherine's questions. We can't wait for our next VC link with the National Archives.

Photos of our vc link with Virginia

Year 3 vc partnership with Parklands Junior School

Mrs Fewings and her Year 3 English set will be sharing some work with pupils at one of our local schools, Parklands Junior. We are trying to use our video conferencing kit for a range of activities, sharing work and building friendships on a local, as well as global scale.

World Book Day

Lots of 'literature inspired' activities were taking place in school today, to celebrate World Book Day. Don't forget to spend your World Book Day voucher...

Crownfield - Steuart Weller v.c. link

Today we carried out our test link with our partner school in the United States, Steuart W. Weller Elementary School, Virginia. 6N were involved in the test and waved their England and US flags excitedly throughout! We are now working on a set of questions about school life in the US, which we will email to our partner class. They in return will email us some questions they'd like answered about school life in this country. Our next v.c. link with Steuart Weller is on 17th March.

Michael Rosen VC event

Using our Video Conferencing equipment, children from Years 3 - 6 took part in a discussion with poet and author, Michael Rosen. in September. There were lots of laughs and the children asked Michael some brilliant questions, including one about his reasons for not completing training to be a doctor...

We have lots more VC events lined up, including workshops from the MET Office for Year 6 (Climate Change and Extreme Weather) and history sessions delivered by the National Archives.

Crownfield Wiki

Our new Year 6 will be contributing to the school wiki from September. Although we will focus on information for our global partner schools, we hope our work will be of interest to everyone! The wiki is available for everyone to view at www.crownfieldjunior.wikispaces.com