It was a most enjoyable maths lesson with Y8 as we used New Age Kurling as the focus of our activities. Such a great game with so many different maths possibilities: highest/lowest score, mean/mode/median average score, maximum/minimum score, points needed for a win and many, many more! Think we’ll...
Year 8
Blogs for Year 8
Darton Animators: The Last Bow of 2016-17
What a great way for us to close out the academic animating year. This is the 100th video on my DC Youtube account, and the channel has over 4,500 views across 59 countries now! With it being transition for the next two weeks, Animation Club will return in September...
Barnsley Crest
Today we studied Barnsley’s crest to look for clues to the town’s pre and post Industrial Revolution past. Do you know what the falcon carrying a padlock represents? Why is there a griffin on top? Why the crossed pick axes? Why not ask Brody- his research today was phenomenal...
Keeping safe in Nurture
We have choices to make every day. Some are no very important but others can have massive impacts on our safety. Today in nurture we looked at different scenarios where we had to make good choices to stay safe.
Animation Club
Today was the penultimate animation club of the school year, and it was a lovely session in the library. The group work so well and so independently on their projects and it is great seeing how they bring their ideas to life. After next week the group will restart...
Darton Animators
Another wonderfully varied offering from our animation club! Music by Fu Manchu just in case you were wondering why your foot was tapping!
Battlefields Trip
The trip to Belgium and France was such a powerful and moving experience for all staff and learners who attended. Each of us took something from it that will stay with us. Here is a little collection of images from the trip.
Animation Club
Animation is a great rainy day activity, and our group got on really well this afternoon.
DC Animators
It was lovely yesterday enjoying the late afternoon sunshine in our temporary home of the library working on our animations. Enjoy!
Darton Animators
I’ve been a bit of a ghost at animation club for the last few Wednesdays, but Miss Maskill has done a wonderful job with the group, and it was great to be able to put together this show reel and see all the fantastic work they’ve produced these last...
