Peter Pan, It's Show Time!

Peter Pan, It's Show Time - Kizoa Video Maker

This time next week we will be on stage!!

If you are going to be in Christchurch on August 14/15, please follow this link to book your tickets to see us in Disney's Peter Pan Jr.

It's going to be awesome!!

http://www.eventopia.co/wafform.aspx?_act=fullsearchv3&v3=yes&s=Peter%20Pan

Semester 2 Houses

Peter Pan T-Shirts

Recording at Orange Studios

Check out this short vid of us, just before we started recording!

Science experiments for our Unit of Inquiry

Last term our UOI (Unit Of Inquiry) was called “Light It Up” and our central idea was:
“Scientists use their knowledge of how to transform and manipulate basic elements in creating new products or substances.”

We focused on using our ‘scientific brains’ for our experiments, linking the experiments to a story book, whether it be Harry Potter, Winnie the Pooh or Rapunzel in our own science videos, like the one shown above.

We looked at videos of Heston Blumenthal and Nanogirl to give us some inspiration and also to give us an idea of how to do a science experiment in front of a camera, explaining everything clearly and using iMovie to edit, creating transitions and adding sound effects

Here is an example of a video that we watched:

What story would you do a science experiment about? Have you ever done a science experiment that you could link to a story? We would love to hear from you in the comments!

~ Ella, Isabel and Lucy

Peter Pan Dress Up Day!

MakerEd Night

Christchurch Connected Educators’

MakerEd Event

Have you ever used Scratch before? Programmed a robot? Tinkered with circuits? Play with a beebot?  Well, if you have, you’re secretly a Maker. Being a Maker means that you tinker - you play with technology, crafts, anything really. If you can hack it, repurpose or create it, you’re a Maker.

On Wednesday, a group called the Christchurch Connected Educators ran a MakerEd Event for teachers. The MakerEd Event was brought into fruition to teach the teachers how to make regular kids into Maker kids. The 3 eLearning and MakerSpace Leaders at Selwyn House helped out Miss Fairhall - one of the teachers in 8CF and our Director of e-Learning and MakerSpace - with a BeeBots workshop. We helped show the teachers how to work the BeeBots, and also helped out with another teacher’s EV3 workshop.

One of the many parts of MakerEd is Scratch, an open-source block coding resource. Sign up and have a go here, or try one of the games we’ve made!