Podcasts about appleby school

Here we are on another school year at Appleby School. We are concentrating on making our voices the best that we can. To do that we record ourselves, play it back and discuss how we might improve and then re-record. Here is our first attempt for 2010. It is based on a poem, My Other Jandal' by Don Franks. My Other Jandal by Don Fanks Have you seen my other jandal? I had it just before. It shouldn’t be too hard to find- It’s somewhere on the shore. It disappeared all by itself When I was in the waves, And that’s the way my other jandal Usually behaves. The jandal photo was taken by Michael Fawcett

Mr Cook is Keeley's grandfather and he used to go to Appleby School 58 years ago. We interviewed him about his school days at Appleby School. 2.8MB 5 minutes 11 seconds

We are learning how to interview people to find out more about them and to follow up with open ended questions. We are also learning about how schools were in days gone by. Appleby School is soon to celebrate 150 years. That is quite an achievement. 5MB 7 minutes

We are at the end of the 2007 school year at Appleby School and what better place to review some of the projects we have undertaken over the year. This movie was compiled by Raewyn, Moutere's classroom teacher. 4.7MB 3 minutes 16 seconds

Stickers are the latest fashion at Appleby School. All the girls are spending their playtimes and lunchtimes swapping and trading stickers. Everyone has their favourites. Which are yours? 1.9MB 1minute 35 seconds

Each year we bring together a group of keen, talented students to be in our school band. They practice one afternoon a week at school and go on tour around some local schools to show what they have been learning. This year's group is called Blue Moon and we filmed this at Moturoa (Rabbit Island) which is about a five minute drive from our school. Aren't they very cool! 5MB 3 minutes 50 seconds

Last year I posted a video podcast of our school band and thought I should do so again with this year's band as last year's bad got really good reviews. From Moturoa classroom you will see Tegen singing, Tyler on drums, Elliott on keyboard and Kieran on guitar. Our band is very good and we like to listen to them play at assembly. 6MB 1 minute

Today we had a sharing day showing other classes at Appleby School some of our learning about our 'Destination' studies. You may have seen our sharing video about our Destination- New York, in last week's podcast. The New Entrant classroom, Waimea, learnt about life in Tonga. We had a shared umu lunch for the whole school. Waimea also made this video about how to get coconut cream from a coconut. 5.1MB 1 minute 26 seconds

Ryan impressed us with his go-karting trophies that he brought to school to how us for news time. Appleby School is lucky to have a go-kart track really close to it. Dino and Ryan travel all over New Zealand to go to go-kart meetings. Ryan, Elliott and Kieran recorded this podcast. 1.5MB 2.47 seconds

One of the families from Appleby School has recently left to go to Valencia, Spain for a few months to be involved in the America's Cup. Zoe's Dad, Rod, is helping install animation software designed by New Zealanders that will help people all over the world get more enjoyment of the America's Cup because they will be able to see in 3D where the yachts are up to. Rod came to school and spoke to our senior classes about what he is going to do and then we each took a photo and spoke about it so you would know more too. The beginning sound bite is of when the New Zealand yacht 'Black Magic' won the America's Cup in 1995. We hope to hear more from Rod while he is in Valencia. Wouldn't it be great if we brought the America's Cup back to New Zeland. 3.3MB 6 minutes 18 seconds

The New Entrant class at Appleby School have prepared a co-operative digital story constructed with iPhoto describing the things they like best about being at school. 13 MB 2 minutes 42 seconds

This is our first truly mobile podcast recorded on location at our Wakefield School Swimming Carnival with the iTalk attached to my iPod. It was lovely to be able to capture the candid reflections on the day's events as they happened. It was a great morning, very well supported by the parent community. I was able to speak with children, parents, organisers and friends of Appleby School. 1.8 MB 2 mintutes 44 seconds

This is a short slideshow which shows some of the adventures that Cuddly Kiwi from Moturoa Class of Appleby School has been on since arriving last month. Hi is finding Wales a bit on the chilly side - but is generally enjoying his visit, he particularly enjoyed his recent visit to London.

Tonight was Appleby School's Year Six Leaver's Assembly. We sat in the evening under the canvas eaves of the ampitheatre to listen to Metamorphic, the school band, play a set. Then we had some interesting speeches and all the leaving children got an Appleby School leaver's badge. Chanelle stood and gave a lovely speech on behalf of the children, we sang a couple of Christmassy songs and then had a family supper before going home to bed. We only have one half day of school left before we break for Christmas but we are going to record some poems tomorrow so we have some podcasts to go on with over the holiday break. 4MB 48 seconds - short and sweet

One of the features of Appleby School is its wonderful yearly Pet Show Day. This year's one was really great with lots of entries in all the events. What a great day we had.

On Wednesday 6th December at 9.30 am (UK time) - 10.30pm (NZ time) we sat down as a class to have a chat with Allanah King in New Zealand. The skype link worked perfectly and we were easily able to hear each other. We spent 25 minutes quizzing Miss on New Zealand and her school - it was great fun for us, we hope that it wasn't too stressful the other end!!! We learnt a great deal about the country of New Zealand and its many sheep, in addition to learning more about Appleby School. This coming week on Tuesday evening for us (Wednesday morning in the other side of the World) we are planning to talk directly to our pen pals as they begin their school day - how cool is that. It will certainly be the chance for us to catch up with all of the news from both classes and both countries. Both classes are really looking forward to it - so watch this space...

Cuddly Kiwi our visitor from Appleby School in New Zealand accompanied Year 3 to the Blackwood Miner's Institute Theatre in Blackwood this afternoon. We went to see a performance of The Snowman by Raymond Biggs, it was performed by The Welsh Symphonia under the baton of Dr Keith Ellerington. Before the performance Kiwi met the narrator ( photograph) and was invloved in the creation of an instant artwork in front of the orchestra. Walking in the air was eprformed by a local boy ( not from our school) with a beautiful voice. We hope that you enjoy this we certainly did - Cuddly Kiwi was thrilled by the performance.

This week was a very busy one for us at Appleby School. Our senior classes performed on stage with Suzanne Prentice who is a famous New Zealand entertainer. She has been awarded a Queen's Honour for her music services. The sound tracks on this podcast are of Moturoa class singing a couple of Suzanne's Christmas themed songs. We recorded this part back in the classroom. Our performance was 'wicked'. By Braden (Year Four) 1.6MB 3 minutes 7 seconds

Each year Pete leads a school band at Appleby School. The popularity of the band is evidenced by the growing number of instrumuments and children that are keen to have a go. Today they are getting ready to go on tour around some of the local schools. We were their practice audience. The band's name is Metamorphic. See how far they have come on their journey to musical stardom! Aren't they a talented group. 13MB 2 minutes 16 seconds

Cefn Fforest SChool in Wales has inspired us to have a go at a live vodcast with real people. We had a great opportunity to do this as the Year Fives were away today at the Inter-School Athletic Sports so we only had a small class of 18 Year Fours. We looked at some of the things we like at Appleby School. The vodcast was put together quickly with the minimum of editing but was lots of fun to have a go at! It is 10MB big so if you have a slow connection you may like to have a cuppa and do a couple of other things while you wait. We look forward to being on the Loop with a 36,000k modem next year!!!

IT Rant #12 A really busy week in IT this week, with our link to AllanahK's podcasts from Appleby School in South Island New Zealand, and the growing number of quality educational podcasts coming from the Southern Hemisphere : ITUcan, Russley Radio, Room5 and Room 1 podcasts shows how there are important pockets of technology around the world. Also included in this Rant is a further report on K12 online and the pre-conference podcast from US Podcast Guru David Warlick. I hope that you enjoy this podcast.

Jamie, Sam J and Ruby made this podcast about our wonderful three dimensional art work. When you are finished listening click on the Appleby School link to send us some feedback. Enjoy the holidays. Moturoa