Delves Junior School

Please note that as from 1st September 2006, the price of a school meal will be £1.60 per day.

This year’s Sports Days will be held (weather permitting) on the mornings of :

• Lower School (Y3 & Y4) : Tuesday 11th July
• Upper School (Y5 & Y6) : Wednesday 12th July

We use the Tiger playing fields (Walstead Road) for sports, and the events usually begin at about 9.45 a.m.

Book Club

• Chris d’Lacey introduces Icefire
• Cliff McNish introduces The Silver Child
• Jacqueline Wilson introduces The Diamond Girls

Find it: English 1 > Book Club

TV News

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Food packaging campaign

The Women’s Institute are campaigning to reduce food packaging.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Taking action

Millennium Bridge sound art

A live feed of the sound of the Millennium Bridge is being piped into the Tate Modern Gallery.

Find it: Art > Galleries > Tate Gallery

News Bites

A news round-up of events in the form of four short video clips. The video clips are reporter-led pieces using language aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils.

• Queen’s children’s party
• Mummies help doctors
• Model insects on display
• Michelangelo exhibition

Find it: English 2 > News Bites

Newspaper articles this week include..

Find this week’s stories: News 2

Chalk drawing helps wildlife

The National Trust yesterday began the first wildlife survey of the Cerne Abbas Giant - a 180ft chalk figure of a man carved into the hillside near the Dorset village.

Find it: Geography > Environmental issues > Wildlife

New emblem for Red Cross

The Red Cross are changing their emblem into an internationally recognised humanitarian emblem.

Find it: PSHE & Citizenship > Politics > World Politics

World Cup 2006 data [Data]

Data handling exercises using recent results from the group stages of the World Cup.

Find it: PE > Football > World Cup and Maths > Handling data > Data

Charles Darwin [Profile]

A profile of Charles Darwin that explores important events in his life.

Find it: History > People in history > More

There will be a meeting for all parents of children starting in Year 3 in September 2006, on Thursday July 6th. The meeting will be held at the Junior School at 7 pm, and will be a chance to meet the Year 3 staff.

Photo-stories are a great new way for students to use digital technology to communicate their ideas creatively and effectively. This website gives you a tutorial on how to dit yourself.

Although they’re simple to make, photo-movies look great and offer young people a powerful means for getting their messages across. Since photo-movies are made with still images from a digital camera, scanner or free online photo-library, they can be created by anyone, for virtually nothing.

There are opportunities for making photo-movies right across the curriculum, where they can be used as a novel alternative to conventional written work. They are also a very powerful tool for teaching many of the communication topics covered in the Speaking & Listening, English, Citizenship and PSHE curricula.

To get started, just choose ’start activity’. This mini website contains tutorials on every aspect of production, from scriptwriting and assembling the images to putting on special effects, recording the narration and laying down a music track. Download the Teacher’s Notes for suggestions how to set up a photo-movie project.

The videos which make up Assignment: Photo-movie are presented in Flash 8, which you can download for free from the ‘Welcome’ page, and can be watched online via a 2Mb broadband connection. Alternatively you can watch or download the videos in Windows Media format from the ‘Downloads’ page.