A double-dose of animations this week as I missed last week’s session, but the group still produced some great work under the watchful eyes of Miss Maskill and Mrs Cawston. Another three new members this week which was brilliant to see!
Year 9
Blogs for Year 9
Gardening SOS 18th Century style!
Today Y8/9 historians imagined they were wealthy settlers in the 18th Century. They had travelled to the New World intending on developing a cotton plantation. We went to the garden area and discussed what we needed to do to convert the scrub land at the back for farming. After...
Hunting for the Magnificent Seven!
This week DC Animators broke through the 3,000 views mark on our YouTube channel and picked up a view in Ireland, which takes the total number of countries our videos have been viewed in up to 51, spread across six continents! Now, does anybody know anyone who lives in...
Build Your Own Computer
Python Programming
Year 9 have been developing a program in Python which allows us to draw shapes They have used the Turtle function which is built into Python. Great resilience and perseverance shown by all well done!
On a mission!
They’re back! DC Animators returned from the Christmas break full of ideas and enthusiasm, and it was great to see so many raring to go!
Shakespeare Thinglink – who was he?
Morning Year 9 – hope you have all had a great Christmas break! Here’s a bit of pre learning ready for Tuesday! I’ve also sent you a link on Google Classroom. If any of you find anything else useful add it to the padlet. Ms D 🙂
Y9 Option Choices Evening
Y9 just keep on impressing!
Just felt the need to blog about the AMAZING attitude to learning my Y9’s have demonstrated over the last half term! We have done Of Mice and Men to death over the last 7 weeks so we’ve gone a bit ‘off piste’ this week. Using last years Sainsbury’s advert...
Darton Animators
What a busy year for my fantastic group of animators, with their imaginations taking them on fantastic journeys through space and time, to different planets, via the school library and beyond! Got a couple of competitions lined up for next year, so exciting times ahead!
