Year 6 Junior Jam - Computing
Year 6 have enjoyed another lesson working on their remixes of popular songs, using the 'GarageBand' app, adding more live loops and altering the tempo and key of the song. They all enjoyed listening to each other's songs.
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Year 5 - Computing
In this lesson, the children were introduced to the terms ‘melody’ and ‘hook’, with a focus on how hooks make songs catchy and memorable. Year 5 then used the app Garage Band to create their own hook using a range of instrumental sounds, before using this hook to write their own song.
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Year 6 Junior Jam - Computing
This week in Computing, year 6 learned about vocal stems and song remixes. They learned that a vocal stem is the isolated singing of a song, without the music behind it. Their task for this lesson was to remix a song on the 'GarageBand' app, by taking a vocal stem and changing the genre. They used live loops to add the music, and changed the tempo and the key so that they complimented the vocal stem.
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Year 6 Junior Jam - Computing
In Computing, year 6 have been working on looping videos. They were tasked with using the Keynote app to create a looping video which included: a GIF, 3D art and cinemagraph. The children then watched and appraised each other's videos.
Year 2 - Computing
Year 2 have been busy animating objects to create a Lego movie.
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Year 6 Junior Jam - Computing
In this week's Junior Jam Computing lesson, year 6 created their own GIFs using the Keynote app. They worked in pairs, choosing an image and adding some humorous text, then animating their image with a Build-In, Action and Build-Out. At the end of the lesson, they showcased their finished GIFs on the board. This was such a fun and informative lesson and the children really enjoyed it.
Year 5 - Computing
In Computing, Year 5 learned how to create character movement for an animation. The children first drew 3D shapes on their whiteboards and then made a sequence of shapes in the Animation app to help create forward motion.