Hello I am Ania the director of PPA news and I lead the team in creating the first school news show.  Our first show will be broadcast to the school during the Christmas celebration assembly.  We will be covering lots of different subjects around school and class.

Hello my name is Luqman and I am the Editor in Cheif of the School Newspaper, The School Times, which is being run by Year 5.  Our first paper will be ready to read at school just before the Christmas holidays.  We will be covering lots of different subjects around school and class.\

​We are well under way with researching, interviewing and writing many stories to share with you in both our news show and newspaper.  If you  have any ideas about what you wish for us to cover let us know!

This year we have re-branded TAG club into ALPHA club.  We are excited to embark on a new year of exciting activities.
Each year group within ALPHA Club will be working on a different project over the year.
Year 4 children will be designing and creating debating boards which will be presented at parent's evening around Easter.
Year 5 and 6 will be combining in a joint adventure under the mantle 'ALPHA Media', which will consist of a news show and a newspaper.
Year 5 children will be running the  school newspaper, titled 'Pendle Primary Academy Times'.  Their newspaper will be shared around the school at the end of every half term.
Year 6 children will be running the school news show, titled 'PPA News'.  Their news show will be shared once a team to the whole school during the end of term assembly.
We hope you enjoy our blog over the coming year!
Next week we will hear from the Director of the News show, Ania, as well as the Editor in Chief of the newspaper, Luqman.

Since our last post we have done lots of different things.  First, we made animations with Scratch using algorithms to help create little scenes.  In this we had to follow set instructions and test and debug our work, from this we used the skills we had gained and made our own versions and showed them to the group.

After that, we moved onto some art and design work, using clay to create different objects and models.  All of us managed to create a model and used some molding and scathing skills to complete our pieces.
Some of us used some printing skills and made block prints, using cutting tools and a clay based square to cut out sections to make coloured patterns.

Last week, we were researching questions to put on a Kahoot.  This week, we  built them up and writing them on the Kahoot website.  We are doing this because we want more people to know everything about the topic this Kahoot is based on. We are hoping that the people who are doing this Kahoot will think of their own questions by answering our Kahoot.

The people who are doing this Kahoot should be able to learn more about this topic in the future.

Welcome to TAG club, the home of the Talented Able and Gifted.  This is a treat for the children who have worked beyond the limits.  At the the moment, we are working on their own Kahoot!

This year, we are going to be working on: animation , art and Minecraft and plenty of other fun things!

If you want to find out more about TAG club every week we will release a new blog informing you about the creativeness, fun and all the new things we will have learnt.

Thank you for reading, see you next week!