Riversdale

Halloween video special

Digital Elf — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:38:22 +0000

Riversdale School assembly provided lots of photos that could be used to help make this special Halloween video!

Pakistan Day

Digital Elf — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:30:38 +0000

Riversdale held a Pakistan Day on 19th October 2010. All the different classes took part in activities about Pakistan.

Year 6 took part in experiencing how people felt in Pakistan and India when India was partitioned and Pakistan was created in 1947. They also did an activity where they picked traditional Asian sweets and then wrote an advert for it.

Lots of people, both children and staff, had a henna pattern painted on their hands, (for a 20p donation towards the flood relief fund) and everyone could wear Pakistani clothes or wear green and white if they wanted!
Reported by Shoaib – year 6

Archibald the evacuee

WendyElf — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:36:50 +0000

Year 6 had a special visitor from the 2nd World War period. Archibald is an evacuee. Year 6 asked intelligent and thought provoking questions in order to find out as much as possible from Archibald about his evacuation experience.

Exploring artifacts – from the Second World War

Digital Elf — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:44:22 +0000

Wandsworth Museum came into school to tell us about all the different things that happened in WW2. They asked us what we knew first. On the board they drew a mind map and we told them all the different things that we already knew.

There were lots of big boxes that they had brought, full of artifacts, (things that were from a long time ago). The first one we were shown looked like a mushroom. We asked lots of different questions to find out what it was – it was a darning mushroom! (Something that helps you to darn things like socks.)

After splitting into four groups we were given a box or bag that had different artifacts inside it. We then had to discover who the things belonged to, and why they had them. We were like detectives! There was lots of many different kinds of evidence to help us.

At the end we had to tell the rest of the class who our mystery person was, and present and talk about our evidence to the class. It was great fun, and we got to dress up as our character!

Reported by: Nicholas Boyd

Find more about the wonderful Wandsworth Museum here: http://www.wandsworthmuseum.co.uk/

If you could have chosen who to be in the Second World War, who would you be, and why?

WW2 air raid practise

Digital Elf — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:29:31 +0000

Hiya everyone – and welcome to our year 6 blog. This is our first media Smilebox this school year! Leave a comment below and tell us how it felt to take part in our World War 2 air raid experience…..

Online videos for kids

Digital Elf — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:51:39 +0000

Looking for some great videos to watch, aimed at children? Check out these two great sites – Kideo Player, (when you are watching them, just hit the space bar to skip to the next, or press the F to watch full screen) and the great Zuitube which claims to have the largest video collection for kids.

Smories

Digital Elf — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:57:53 +0000

I came across this interesting website called….Smories.com – you can hear stories being read, and even submit your own stories to the site!

Kids love to be read to (check out Storyline Online ) In fact, it is good for kids to be read to. If a child is brought up being read to, they tend to develop a good imagination and even a desire to read themselves.

Without the rest of the details, you can go straight to Smories right now and begin to watch the videos of the stories being read. It’s easy because the front page contains thumbnails of a bunch of videos. As you hover your cursor over each thumbnail, you’ll see the information about each video, including the age-appropriate label.

What do you think of it?

One small planet

Digital Elf — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:19:37 +0000

I like this widget you see below because it makes the world look a smaller place…….(click here to see it in action on our Radiowaves pages)……whenever you read the page where this spinning world is, a red dot appears on the spinning globe – see yourself….. and see where others have been before you.

It reminds me of our One Small Planet video, where you get a great glimpse of exactly where Riversdale is on the planet…..

Tell me – what part of this beautiful world do you inhabit?

PaperCritters: Create Printable Digital Paper Toy Models

Digital Elf — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:15:21 +0000

This looks like lots of fun! Check out the article all about it here:

PaperCritters: Create Printable Digital Paper Toy Models

makeuseof.com is one of my favourite websites…… which is where I found this article about PaperCritters.

After reading the article, if you think you might like to try this out, go to http://www.papercritters.com/pc.php

A member of our class made their own: http://www.radiowaves.co.uk/blog/144008/PaperCritter

Riversdale Car Wash – buckets at the ready!

Digital Elf — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:13:36 +0000

Time to get wet!

Students in year 6 were well prepared with their buckets and lovely new sponges. Gathered in the car park at school, they cleaned and splashed and had a great deal of fun cleaning the cars of all the staff.

It was all in aid of a fund-raising event, to help get enough money together to pay for an upgrade on our Radiowaves account. We started out with a free account that gave 60mb of space, but we soon ran out of that! Check out our channel on Radiowaves to see what we get up to over there…..

Some of us had never washed a car before, and were amazed at how filthy they could get! One of us even became the ‘bird pooh’ expert, and was called over to do a bit of specialist cleaning whenever a large splodge of the feathered waste variety appeared…

Wendy, Miranda and Linda took plenty of photos of the event – Amy was involved in the endless filling of water buckets and was the general commander-in-action. Wendy keeps talking about a film she will be making of the afternoon (once again, she took loads of footage), but for now, please enjoy the lovely Smilebox…..