How do websites try to get you to buy things?

By Rhys, Isaac and Dylan.

This week Year 3/4 have been looking at how websites use persuasive techniques to try and persuade us to buy things. We then used Purple Mash to create a web page and tried to include some of the techniques used by real websites to sell our products.

Mystery Skype

This week we did a Mystery Skype with a school in the state of Georgia, USA. At first we didn’t have a clue where the school was in the world but we asked lot’s of questions and the other school could only answer yes or no. We went on Google maps and we used atlases to help us locate the school. We finally we guessed the right state, so we won! I hope we do a Mystery Skype again because we all really enjoyed it.

By Trey

Filming with Motus TV for Apple Education

When Apple came into film, we had a great day. Mrs Sutcliffe’s and Mrs Gardener’s classes united together so that Motus TV could film a eLearning lesson for Apple.

Some people including eCadets and Digital leaders were interviewed to talk about their roles and what sort of things they do.

Our excellent Headteacher Mrs Thomas and our fab ICT teacher Miss Williams were also spoken to about Digital Learning and how ICT in our school has developed over the years.

When Apple first arrived at the school they filmed a group of Digital Leaders, sorting out iPads and Chromebooks. Others were filmed doing different things including App-Smashing, Collaborating using iPads and eCadets teaching an eSafety lesson.

They were very friendly and fun to work with, and we thoroughly enjoyed our day as TV stars!

By Sienna and Laila

Learning about computer hardware

Last week we began our eLearning lesson by using an app called Show Me to draw what we thought we would find inside computers and iPads. 

Mr Moyes (one of our parents) came to school to teach Year 5/6 about computer hardware. He brought desktop computers, laptops and iPads from his shop, Compumedic in Flint to teach us about all the components inside. We then used Thinklink to create interactive posters about what we had discovered.

Thanks for all your help Mr Moyes!

Achieving the 360 Degree Safe eSafety mark

We are very proud to be the first school in North Wales to achieve the 360 Degree Safe eSafety Mark from SWGfL. This shows our commitment to providing high quality eSafety education for our whole school community and beyond. We would like to thank eCadets and MCC Digital for their ongoing support in helping us achieve the eSafety mark.

Summer Tech Dojo

During the summer holidays the Year Five members of our Code Club attended a Tech Dojo organised by Allen Heard (@MrAHeard). We programmed an intruder alarm and even hacked Minecraft using a Raspberry Pi and Python! We had a great time and can't wait for the next one!

Digital Pioneer School

We are very proud to announce that Cornist Park has been selected by Huw Lewis, the Minister for Education and Skills, to be a Digital Pioneer School. We have worked incredibly hard over the past couple of years to raise standards in digital learning and enhance the curriculum with a range of new technologies. We are looking forward to working with the other innovative schools and practitioners from across Wales to lead the way in shaping the new Digital Competence framework.

Find out more here

SCC Internet Safety Award winners

Last week we were very proud to be awarded the SCC Internet Safety award by the Education Community Awards. It was really nice to win an award for all our eSafety work.

North Wales Digital Explorers 2015

Last week Cornist Park and MCC Digital organised an event called North Wales Digital Explorers 2015. We invited teachers and pupils from Flintshire, Conwy and Denbighshire. The event was jam packed and involved keynotes from MCC and eCadets, followed by a speed learning session. A mixture of schools and Apple experts presented during the speed learning session. They shared a variety of ideas such as Minecraft in Education, green screen technology, Purple Mash, Makey Makey kits and Google Apps for Education. The afternoon finished with a great iMovie workshop with an Apple professional development specialist where everybody discovered lots of new tips and tricks.

Programming with Lego WeDo kits

Lego WeDo from Cornist Park on Vimeo.

Using 2Code on Purple Mash

Coding using 2Code on Purple Mash

Makey Makey Kit

Take a look at the fun things we got up to in Code Club last week. Thanks to Matt from MCC who came too and brought along a Makey Makey kit for us to practice our programming skills with.



Makey Makey Kit from Cornist Park on Vimeo.

Rock band!

Today we had  competition to see who could create the best rock band in Scratch.

Here is the winner! Created by Dominic 

Press S to make the singer sing - watch what happens to the glass of water and the disco ball when she sings!

Press D to play the drum

Press B to operate the bananas

Scratch animations

Last week we did lots of coding! This is the animation that we created using Scratch in Year 3/4.



Scratch animation from Cornist Park on Vimeo.

Parent and Child Animation workshop

Animations created by parents and children at our animation workshop for Year 3/4B



Animation 1 from Cornist Park on Vimeo.

By Ifan and his Dad


Animation 2 from Cornist Park on Vimeo.

By Jolie, Emily and Emily's Mum

Lego Education CPD

Yesterday evening we held a Lego Education workshop for teachers across the county to learn more about computing using Lego. Lots of teachers were very enthusiastic to have a go and learn new skills.   We created moving boats, goal keepers, lions that could sit up and roar and crocodiles who snapped their mouths shut when they detected movement!

Lego from Cornist Park on Vimeo.

Code club in the community

Just before the Easter holidays Cornist Code Club members visited Barclays Bank in Ellesmere Port to take part in a Barclays Code Playground workshop with their Digital Eagles. We practised our coding skills using Scratch. The people at Barclays were very helpful when we got stuck. It was really really fun, the time flew by and I hope we can do it again soon. We didn't realise it but by coding we were learning about ICT and Numeracy (this will keep our teachers happy!)  Barclays Code Playground had the best rules; don't let adults touch and have fun!

By Carla

Showing what we know using Vidra

To link in with their Australia topic Year 4/5 used the Maps app to take a flyover tour of Sydney. As they travelled across Sydney they took screenshots of the main landmarks. They then edited the screenshots and inserted them into an app called Vidra to share their knowledge of each of the landmarks.
This is what they created:



Sydney Landmarks from Cornist Park on Vimeo.



Sydney Landmarks 2 from Cornist Park on Vimeo.




Sydney Landmarks 3 from Cornist Park on Vimeo.

Thanks to @ICT_MrP for the inspiration behind this activity.

Animation workshop with parents

Take a look at our animation workshop with Year 3/4A and their parents.

Thank you to the parents for all the lovely feedback on Twitter.

WW2 Animations

Take a look at our WW2 animations created by members of Year 5/6 using Stop Motion app and then edited in iMovie.



Evacuation by D, E and M from Cornist Park on Vimeo.
By Dominic, Evan and Megan


Animation from Cornist Park on Vimeo.

By Hannah, Dylan and Bradley

Year 3/4 began experimenting with animation. They showed a plane flying from Wales to Barcelona to link with their topic.

Animation Year 3 from Cornist Park on Vimeo.