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 You can find this year's Maple Class blog at:


 www.mapleclass2012-13.blogspot.com 


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Life of an orange 2

This is the second life of an orange. It took about three hundred pictures to make this! It is about a weird orange on opposite day who gets into mischief. We made this by taking a lot of pictures and putting them together to create a video ( otherwise know as stop frame animation) Thanks for watching and enjoy!

By Ashley and Mitch

The Time Spirit that lurked in the Woods - Video by Jack, Greg and Tess

This is a video that Jack B, Greg and I (Tess) have been working on. It is a fantasy/ Horror about a Time Spirit (a spirit that dies if time is too complex around it.) that needs a body to stay alive. It chases an innocent young futurgram (a type of immortal that dreams about the future) called Tessa. They go all around the woods in two different time periods.

There are two extras in the movie, they are Jack N and Rosie.

It was created on an iPad using the 8mm vintage camera app, Splice and iMovie.

Want to know more? Take a look:

ColorSplash by Rosie.

This picture was made on ColorSplash, an cheap (69p) ipad app for photo effects. You take or upload a photo, and it automatically turns black and white. Then, you can choose the brush size (small for fine detail, big for large colouring areas) and paint back in the colours on some parts. This tricks the eye into looking at the coloured area, giving a great and arty look to your photos.

For more information, click here.

By Rosie.

Olivia's 100 Word Challenge Week 34

One morning, I woke up and smelled the sickly smell of blood in the air.  "Argh!" I screamed as I entered my Mum's bedroom.  There she was lying on the floor, clear as day, dead. My mind ran astray as I thought about how this could have happened.  Suddenly I heard the front door slam shut!  It wasn't Dad because he was in London and it couldn't have been my brother because he was at University.
I crept along the landing and there I saw a train of blood leading downstairs and to the front door. Suddenly I saw it, the nanny wasn't in her bedroom. Infact she wasn't in the house at all.  Maybe it was her!  I grabbed the phone and dialled 999 but for some reason there was no answer.  What could I do?

Michael's 100 Word Challenge Week 34

One casual day I was walking down the street and suddenly I saw a man mugging a frail old lady! I couldn't help but go over to the phone box and call the police, SWAT team, Someone! When they picked up the phone I shouted down to the officer.  Quick help someone's being mugged! The police woman kept calm about the situation.  I was so angry about that. Suddenly I ran towards him. He started to run away.  I chased and chased but he was to fast for me.  I got in my car and saw him pull out a gun. BANG! Goodbye.

Jack N's 100 Word Challenge Week 34

I walked into a cave and suddenly I saw it.  The legendary pencil.  It did absolutely nothing compared to a normal pencil.  That's why it's called the Legendary Pencil.  The only difference is that the legendary pencil is made of solid gold.I would have to be careful because there were skeletons everywhere and that could mean traps. I mean death traps.  Traps that lead to death. I saw a trip wire. I would have to pull it out to find out what would happen.  It wobbled, and a lava pit opened up through the floor.  I avoided it, grabbed the pencil, but fell into lava.

Joe's 100 Word Challenge Week 34

I was walking home one day, when I fell over and landed in a dark alley.  The coldness made me shiver as I began to stand up.  The stench of garbage lingered in the air.  My nose crincled up as the smell was unbearable.  I stumbled towards the exit but suddenly I saw a shadow cover my escape from this dingy, lifeless place.
He pulled out something shiny.  He crept closer, never lowering his weapon.  It felt like we came face to face he was that close but then he lunged forward and sank the knife into my heart. Only one question remained in my head. Why?

The year 6 leavers hoodies!

Our class and the Chestnut ( click here ) year sixes are leaving primary school in six weeks. So, to celebrate, we have all got a purple, red, or white leavers hoodie, with all of our names on the back. The names are shaped neatly in a 12 to emphasise that the year sixes are leaving in the eventful year of 2012. As the year six hoodie-fashion is sweeping across the oldest children, we have taken a photo of them. All of our class (Maple) had to pose for a picture with our backs to the camera. (See pictures below.)

What do you think of our super-stylish hoodies?

Please comment below.

By Rosie, Greg and Franny.

Maple Manifestos

We have been looking at the Holstee Manifesto. This was written by the american Holstee company as a reminder of what they live for. We have written our own versions of this and have felt really inspired by them.

Have a read of some of them.....we hope you are inspired too. 

The Olympic Torch Relay!!!

On Wednesday 30^th May the Olympic Torch passed through Shrewsbury and all of our school, (Greenfields) went to watch it. The atmosphere was amazing with almost 40,000 people around the town. We waited for about an hour for this exciting moment. Before the torch came past, there were lots of police, Olympic Vehicles and a few other runners in front. There was a girl named Chloe who ran with the Torch after the coaches. This experience was a once in a life time chance for some of the pupils in Greenfields.

Many children have said they enjoyed this trip and would love to see it again, (especially when they were giving out free flags and coke). Our school was so close to being on TV but missed, anyway, we all enjoyed it and so did the teachers!

By Rhiannon and Emily

French Video - By Chloe, Olivia, Sasha, Elisha, Emily and Rhiannon.

Another French Tour has been finished. Take a look at our video:

Her Majesty The Queen's Jubilee Video #1

We have been celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee by writng RAPs. We decided to make a music video to go with them.  To do this, we used GarageBand, iMovie and InfinFX on our new iPads. We learned how to use all three apps and improve our ICT skills by putting all three into the one video.
This one is by Jack B, Jack N, Ashley, Michael and Matty.

You can see more videos below.

Her Majesty The Queen's Jubilee Video #2

RAP video by Tess, Rosie, Rhiannon, Dylan and Liam.

Her Majesty The Queen's Jubilee Rap #3

RAP video by Mitch, Toby, Aran, Matty Luke and Greg

E-Safety - Remove the Navbar Tutorial By Jack

A few of the children in our class are beginning to create a blog of their own. We realise that the NavBar at the top of the blog is an E-safety problem as the 'Next Blog' button can lead you to nasty blogs. I decided to share my knowledge of removing it with the whole class. So enjoy my video!

Here is the code I mentioned in the video that you need to insert:

#navbar-iframe {
   display: none !important;
}

By your digital leader Jack.

Story Writing

Jess's 100 Word Challenge Week 31

The trap door

As Tim and Moby walked towards the strange door, it opened by it’s self. They thought about if they should go through the rusty, old door. But as they walked round the fascinating door, they fell down into the darkness of an under ground maze.

Luckily they were we not hurt. Tim shouted at the top of his lungs, “where are we,

Have we fallen into Oblivion!?” However the two adventures did not know that these

were the grounds where the King, (over one-hundred years ago) hid from his enemies.   

They explored the caves one-hundred times. But would they survive in the caves?...

New Poll - Free Programs

There is a new poll out on our blog - Free Programs. The idea is: You can click on the links below; they will take you to the program's website. Look at the description on the website - or maybe download it! After you have made your decision, you can vote which is the best free program.
This poll subject is a good idea, because it can help with ICT skills and you can discover new programs. It was inspired by the Digital Leaders.

The programs are:

• Google SketchUp (free version)
• JellyCam
• Debut Screen Recorder (free version)
• Scratch
• VideoPad Video Editor (free version)

Have fun! Maple's DL's.

Alex's 100 Word Challenge Week 31

                  

The fountain

Wow I can’t believe my eyes we found what everyone has been looking for. The fountain of youth! It was beautiful, the sun made the wet substance look like glittering diamonds. “Wow!” I said speechless as I dived onto the soft bed of grass, and relaxed in the sun.

Then I tested the water on a monkey, and when I pulled him out he was gone. Then I noticed I only needed a drop. “Moby NOOOOO!” I shouted…