Thank you to everyone at Crowdys today for listening so attentively to our ChoiceBox and Secrets of Driftwood Islands update!The eagerness of pupils to volunteer to take a turn at navigating the islands and the questions about how to become involved / download the game were super encouraging! We will publish the next working draft on the Digital Writes AoC page and on the Flickernet…
The creative super-powers of Class 9C at Crowdy's have led to the creation of two new islands for the growing Secrets of Driftwood Islands world.Jungle Island involved maths skills in choosing the angle of their plant stems (having used their art skills to draw the leaves) followed by english skills in telling the story of Chloe the cat who left Cat Island to visit…
Please click here to view the virtual world that Class 9G of Crowdy's have spent the last two terms building. As we prepare to begin the building of two new islands for this world with Class 9C, we are reminded of what a privilege it is to witness young people applying themselves to a unique task such as this, especially given the step that they…
This video clip shows the insects drawn by each of the pupils of Class 9G, coming to life on their Mushroom Meadows Island,using Unity- as part of the Driftwood Islands archipelago! https://youtu.be/WV-hAirzN4o
Having completed their animated insects (please see the video clip here)- we then built on this by showing them their insects actually flying around in the virtual world on Mushroom Meadows island.
https://youtu.be/6h6IQc5U3EkHaving voted last week to create animated insects that live on mushrooms, this week we filmed short animated sequences.The wonderful Year 9 crew at Crowdy's used the insects that they had drawn. It was a joy and a privilege to see their engagement with this task.
This week in The Art of Conversation we created a new island together called Goat Island. Partly inspired by the school goats at Crowdy's and very much voted for using their ChoiceBoxes - this is a place to explore in a similar way to Mushroom Meadows but with a puzzle to be solved involving the feeding of goats.Firstly though: an art challenge - each…