Working with animation and keeping up our journal notes

Just like last week, we had such a fun day!
At first we had a quick recap on what we did last week. Then we did a warm up session to help us remember the importance of a headline. The next activity was to think about the highlight of our week and and we had to use a headline and draw a picture about that. We also had to think of a subheading. Mean while, Glen did one of his own as a model for us. After play we started to fill in the top and bottom parts of our newspapers. We had to think of a name for our newspaper and even design adverts.
We then thought about all the different roles involved in working on a newspaper or website. After lunch we had 12 pictures of a little man and we had to change the design and create an animation with it.

Holly year 5

Today we reminded ourselves what we did last week then we had ten minutes to match up headlines to the stories. After that we thought about what we did in the week and I chose Erin's dance party then I thought of a headline. Mine was 'Dancing Queen'. We put in a sub heading and we thought of a title for our page. Mine was fun, it was HIP HOP NEWS! Then we did a diamond nine and thought of jobs you would have if you were a magazine maker. Then we made an article at the bottom of our page. Then sadly we stopped for lunch. After that we animation out of drawings. We created twelve pictures of characters which turned into an animation. I did a giraffe, lion, pig and tiger which was really fun but then sadly it was time to stop. I had lots of fun today.

Written by Grace, Year 3.


Our run cycle animation.

Our journal notes.

Our first go at animation and investigating the power of a headline.

This is us watching a piece of Glen’s preivious work

We studied the layout that other people have used.

We animated our names.

Here we are started to make some animations with our names on card.

We used I motion apps to animate our names.

This is us  panning the animation.

Glen helped us use the animation app. It was really fun!!!

We are learning to work together as part of a team.

We edited our work. We noticed that our hands were in some of the frames, so we used part of the program to edit our animation. We all found this easy and it really improved our final design.

We made sure we recorded what we did because we are going to be teaching others how to use the app!!

We looked at the layout of newspapers. We considered the best designs and discussed the most interesting features.

We worked as ground to decide on the best type of headline. We talked about what made a good headline.

We looked for word play and alliteration. We wanted to know what made a headline ‘catchy’.

We made up our own headlines based on parts of the story of familiar fairytales.

This really made us think but we all created some ‘interesting’ headlines! We will keep practising ‘this!

Blog post written by children from the Lead Creative Schools Group.