5th March

There are 12 new ipads that have just arrived in the class -it’s very exciting to think about what we might be able to do with them given time. Unfortunately it’s a bit late to make the most of them in this phase of work.

The children took their photos as they have been doing every day and then we listened back to our experiments with sound from the previous week. There was a real focus on the differences between the different classes when we listened back.

We did some test recordings with some people in the classes pretending to be P1s and other children having to explain the process to them -what we are doing and what we would like them to say so that we can make good recordings.

The class were also conscious of room sounds and talked about echoes hitting off walls and bouncing back and they were very aware of background noises -they would not have noticed these things back at the start of this phase. It was a calculated risk to allow the children to go off and make recordings in other classrooms. I think that it is important to let them try this kind of thing -to apply the skills and concentration that they have been building up but do it outside the jurisdiction of myself or Mrs Wilson.

Ironically, with this being our last online session, the quality of sound is pretty bad today. Our technology hasn’t let us down so much this time but it’s gone flaky at the end.