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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Christmas Bazaar
Christmas Bazaar 2014
‘Deck the halls with boughs of holly’ the famous carol cries out!! Oakington certainly festooned their corridors and hall with yet another wonderful, seasonal display beginning with the tree garlanded with tinsel, bells, stars and baubles. Mr Jumah and Mr Arrisate adorned the front corridor with the Nativity scene. Each class contributed to a circular poppy themed display in the main hall ornamented with bells, Nativity characters, stars, snowmen, 12 days of Christmas, etc
On December 9th the Sport’s Hall rang out with carols to the delight of Pupils, Parents and Staff heralding the Christmas Bazaar. The hall was packed with Seasonal delights : vibrant cake stalls, lively Bazaar games, energetic bouncy castles, vivid Mehndi and face paint areas, the fantastic stage full of Christmas hampers donated by the staff and last but not least the jingle bells and cries of ‘Ho! Ho! Ho!’ from the Father Christmas grotto.
Thank you to all those who gave so generously to make this event such a Seasonal joy!
Feliz Navidad, Prospero Ano Y Felicidad!!!
Hour of Code Week
The International Hour of Code 8th – 12th December 2014
WOW what a fantastic week we have had…coding everywhere. Oakington took part in this year’s big event, The International Hour of Code Week. There was a real BUZZ and the whole school were working their magic with their algorithms. Nursery taking BeeBot around an obstacle course, whilst Year 1 were having fun making Daisy the Dinosaur, jump, grow, shrink and roll. Year 2 got to know A.L.E.X before designing their own challenges for their friends to play.
KS2 were game makers creating a variety of games using Scratch. The highlight of this fantastic week was the brilliant Nao humanoid robot workshops where children were able to use the Choregraphe software to give Nao step by step instructions to carry out a number of actions. They were amazed to see the range of human like actions it could do, including dancing to Thriller, Gangnam style and Tai Chi.
KS1 listened to Nao telling them a Christmas story before one child took Nao called Harry for a walk in ‘Follow Me’. All the children were thrilled including Mr Libson, Mr Newton and Ms V who facilitated the workshops together with Joanne and Charly from Active8/Aldebaran creators of the humanoid robots.
To continue to support the work we are doing in school with coding, please do download any of the free coding apps for either your Apple IOS, Android or Windows systems and have a go at coding with your children.
Apple IOS: Lightbot Hour of Code 14, A.L.E.X, Scratch Jr, Daisy the Dinosaur, Tynker, Lego: Fix the Factory
Android: A.L.E.X, Lightbot Hour of Code 14, Lego: Fix the Factory
Windows: Turtle for Kids, Tynker, Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu)
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