'Cinderella & Rockerfella' Year 5 & 6 Christmas Panto

Cinderella & Rockerfella


Hiya Guys,


Just a sneak-peek at what Cefn Fforest's Year 5 & 6 are doing for their Christmas Show 2014. The production is a twist on the original story of Cinderella. The changes include: Prince Charming is a Rock star called Rockerfella or 'Rocky' for short; Buttons who has a playful dog named Teaser who, as the story carries on, gains a voice and helps to save the day. Also, additional events occur throughout the story such as: A concert, many songs, a talent contest and a lovey-dovey baker's scene!


Here are some of the characters:

• Cinderella: Kali Webber
• Buttons: Liam Cassley
• Rockerfella: Alfie Phillips
• Fairy Nasty Boots: Olivia Prichard
• Augustina: Kieran Callaghan
• Anastasia: Morgan Phillips
• Teaser (The Dog): Lauren Thomas
• Naughty Kitty: Brandon Harris
• Dan Deeny: Rory Bott

We Will tell you how it goes after the performances are over!


By Liam Cassley, Olivia Prichard and Ella Davies

Michael Morpurgo’s Books

Here is a list of some of his books (Sorry if I don’t get them all) :

Billy the Kid, Private Peaceful, The Butterfly Lion, Little Manfred, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea, An Elephant in the Garden, Fox Friend, War Horse, Farm Boy (Sequel to War Horse), Private Peaceful, Why the Whales Came, The White Horse of Zennor, My Friend Walter, Waiting for Anya, The Last Wolf, Little Foxes, Running Wild, Adolphus Tips, Mr Skip, Twist of Gold, The War of Jenkins’s Ear, Kaspar Prince of Cats, The Sleeping Sword, Shadow, Who’s a Bully Then?, Tom’s Sausage Lion, Wartman, Friend or Foe, The Dancing Bear, The Ghost of Grania O’Malley, Escape from Shangri-La, King of the Cloud Forests, Toro! Toro!, Dear Olly, A Medal for Leroy, Sparrow, Outlaw, Not Bad for a Bad Lad, Born to Run, The Nine Lives of Montezuma , Black Queen, Cool!

I hope in the future that you may want to read some of these fantastic books. I have nearly read the entire set. If I didn’t get them all, please let me know so I could add them :-)

By Liam Cassley (Digital Ambassador and reading addict)

Our Class Assembly

Hiya guys Morgan and Olivia here,

In 6NK we have been practicing our class assembly about WW2, evacuation and rationing. We have included facts, songs and a drama. Our drama included Rory as the farther, Olivia as the mother and Liam and Ellie.J as the children. We also have some Narrators and reporters. We preformed our assembly yesterday and it went great. Loads of parents and children joined in with the songs (Daisy Daisy, Run Rabbit and wish me luck as you wave me goodbye.) 

Bye !!

'Freaked Out' Book Review

Hiya guys,

Recently, we have come across a AMAZING book called 'Freaked Out' by Simon Pridham. It explains everything from turning an iPad on to security and control. It's got everything you need to know about using an iPad. This book gives us a clear step-by-step guide of all the apps we have in school. It's SO EASY to follow, even the TEACHERS could follow it! :) Our favourite part of this incredible book is the guide to using the app 'Aurasma' because it tells you how to create an account and make your object pop out and show on your screen. It was so clearly explained.

As the book says technology has developed since the last decade. It has a whole chapter about the digital leader system and great apps that they could learn how to use. They could teach other children that are maybe a lower level in I.C.T.
  
Whether you don't really know anything about iPads or I.C.T or are looking to improve what you already know, this book will really help you because it tells you these following things: How to download apps, How to put it on sleep, Use siri and loads more! Another FANTASTIC thing about this book is the fact that is interactive! This means that you don't always have to read to get the right information. Throughout this book, QR Codes have been placed so that you can get the information immediately...you're learning is instant. We love the way that the Digital Leaders are used in the videos and tutorials too! Great idea!!!!

We hope to purchase more copies so we can get the whole school reading and learning TOGETHER! This book is really useful for all ages and is available to buy so go and get your copy now!! Thank you to Mr Stone for purchasing this first copy, it has already helped us loads!

By (Year 6 Digital Ambassadors) Liam Cassley, Olivia Prichard & Ella Davies.

IMPORTANT NEWS!

Before we begin anything, let us introduce our 'friend to be', Simon Pridham who has written a guide to use an iPad. He is the king of Learning and teaching in the form of I.C.T! We hope to purchase more copies so we can get the whole school reading and learning! It features lots of apps such as Aurasma, Red Laser, Twitter and so much more. We think that this book inspiring because it features all that we have learnt and we can share it with others!

Hi Guys,
Its Liam Cassley, Ella Davies, Olivia Prichard and we're the Digital Ambassadors of Cefn Fforest Primary for this year. As we've already talked about, we have purchased the amazing guide called 'Freaked Out!' This will really help us to create and reform our Digital Leaders. Luckily for us, it explains all of what Digital leaders are and what we do. Quite simply we can share this by adding our own organization and making it public. We have followed on this information and idea to a close school called Millbrook Primary which we are hoping to do a project with in the future about I.C.T. The pattern that we both have followed includes the system of:

1. Begin by becoming a Digital Apprentice (Year 3)
2. Follow on in your new school year by becoming a Digital Leader (Year 4)
3. Learn new skills but you will still be a Digital Leader (Year 5)
4. Become a Digital Ambassador or a Year 6 Digital Leader and become in charge of I.T in your school before you make the jump to comp! (Year 6)

 Now over to the most exciting news..........Our Digital Ambassadors and our amazing I.C.T teacher, Mr Stone, have been lucky enough to have the chance to Skype the king....Simon Pridham! On Tuesday we are preparing for an exciting call with him where we can talk about his fantastic book and ideas for the Digital Leaders.

 

Bye Guys, Hope you get some useful tips from us

We can't wait for our chat with Simon,

Liam, Ella, Olivia!

Cefn Fforest trip to London Day 1

Hi its Dan here! On March the 26th at 8:00 am we went to London (we were all so exited). Firstly we went to pick up Coed-y-Bryn Primary School, then we were on our way.

Our first stop was at the Natural History Museam, as soon as we walked in there was a GIGANTIC dinosaur. Next we all split up into groups it was Mr Evans's group and Mr Stone's group joined together, Mrs Farmer's group joined Mrs Kemp's group but went round the dinosaur exhibition together, after that the two groups split. Weirdly the both went to the same place in the museam,they went to the volcanoes and earthquakes exbidition (the boys were late for the bus :)).

After the Museam we crossed London to get to Covent Gardens! The atmosphere was electric, there were stalls everywhere people shouting, screaming and yelling hoping that somebody would buy their product(s).

Next it was tea time! In Planet Hollywood there was facanating objects everywhere (everywhere). On the menu there was a choice of cheeseburgers, plainburgers, veggieburgers or pasta, the meals were massive.

After that we went to the amazing thing that is... The Lion King! It had amazing costumes (the whole thing was people, amazing). I loved it I would rate it 10/10 because they followed the storyline of the The Lion King but they put their own twist on it. We eventuly got back to the hotel about eleven'o'clock.  

App of the Week Issue 2

Hey guys it's Dan! It's time for another app of the week ( issue 2 ). This weeks app of the week is Move the turtle! This app is a programing app which is used to develop your programing skills, it has lots of levels. The aim is to program the turtle to collect the diamonds and complete the level objective(s).
I would rate this app 9 / 10 because it is a good app because it has multiple levels and it is easy to understand, I only rated it a 9 because they could add more sets of commands. Bye!

App Of The Week! :)

 

Hiya! It's Holly and Dan. The app of the week this week is...
Scrabble. We chose this app because it develops our literacy skills such as spelling, reading and it extends your vocabulary.

It also incourages you to use a dictionary to find definitions of words.

We rate this app 9 / 10, The thing we like about this app is that you can use it whenever or wherever you go. It could improve by being able to play more games at once. Please download this app it's really good and you will be able to see a difference in your literacy skills straight away! Bye!