Owl Babies

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Owl Babies

• A collaborative ICT project with Whitefriars
  Infant School and Rushden Community College

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Science through stories

• As part of our Science through stories theme we
  use the story Owl Babies by Martin Waddell to
  explore light and dark.
• We use the story to link work in Literacy with
  work in Science.

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Links with Rushden Community College

• We had been offered the opportunity to work with
  Melanie Wilton, Lead ICT teacher from Rushden
  Community College.
• It enabled us to offer a challenging experience
  to some of our most able Year 1 pupils.

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The children had been using Owl Babies as a
text in a Literacy unit of work.
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Windows Moviemaker

• We asked Melanie to support us in using Windows
  Moviemaker to produce a simple animation film
  based on the story of Owl babies.
• We began by making simple puppets of the owl
  babies.

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The children used digital camcorders to record
the process.
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The owl babies were made from newspaper and
masking tape.
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The children worked collaboratively to make the
puppets.
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They mixed paint to get the correct colours.
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Eyes and beaks were added when they were dry!
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The finished Owl babies!
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Producing the animation.

• The children were shown how to photograph and
  then move each puppet a small amount to make the
  animation for the story.
• Melanie then worked with her Year 11 pupils to
  create the animation and add music and voiceover.

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The children were delighted with their very own
movie!
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The collaboration was extremely successful and we
look forward to working on another project next
year.