Building a bridge

It was an experience that we would never forget. The design of the bridge-o-matic was stable and tough. As a result of this, ultimately in the end we won holding a staggering 13.6kg+ record. Nevertheless it was a real challenge. Our teacher had supplied us with only 2.5 meters of tape and 12 papers! The techniquie we used to roll the paper was to roll from the the side to make it stronger because more layers were inside the circle.Once we had rolled all our 12 sheets of paper we began to stick them together with sticky tape to form a winning platform.

The Winning Design:

Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Stop Motion Animation

In Year 6, we have been learning about Isambard Kingdom Brunel in our History lessons. This week and last week, we have been planning and making a stop motion animation video about one of Isambard's inventions (e.g Clifton Suspension Bridge).

First, we had to research facts about Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his inventions. Later in the lesson, we planned a story board about one of his inventions and made the characters that were in our plan,out of plasticine. This was quite tricky because we had to try to make the models lifelike and the plasticine was too hard to mould.

Groups models

Today, when we had finished our plastacine models, we started to make our stop motion animation film using Digital Blue Cameras . This was really fun and exciting but it was really challenging because we had to make every shot perfect. For example, we kept taking photos of each others hands which meant that we had to start our scene all over again. First, our teacher demonstrated to some of the people how to use stop motion animation. Those children who already knew how to use stop motion animation started doing their work straight away. Next, we had to stick our backgrounds onto our stage before we got started. Afterwards, started to film. We started by taking fifteen shots to start our film. Every other small move that we made, we took three shots. In the next few weeks, we will start adding extra bits like narration.

Here is an example of the initial scenes from our groups movie:

enlarging images

This term in year 6 we have been enlarginging images. First we had to take a picture and draw a grid on top of it. Then we had to use the grid to help us sketch the outline. Using techiniques from previous weeks, we had to then use aquarrel pencils. In our next art lesson we had to draw a bike using the same skills. After, we got to draw our shoes. We had to sketch the basic outline on to A5 paper then place a grid on top. We had to then draw the picture onto A3 paper. Next we had to use the aquarell pencils. Finally, we took pictures of our actual shoe and our drawings. We could draw the shoe from different points of veiw.