Cefn FM Podcasting
http://cefnfforestprimaryweblog.blogspirit.com/

This is the podcast channel of Cefn Fforest Primary School, Blackwood, in the valleys of South Wales. The school caters for children in the 3-11 age range.

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Henry Tudor and his wife
Posted: November 2007

As part of our Tudor study 2 pupils put together this excellent short finger puppet show on the life of Henry Tudor. Well done T and D.

A video podcast in the MOV format.

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Tudor Acrostic Poems Part 1
Posted: November 2007

As part of our study of The Tudors we wrote and recorded some acrostic poems on Tuesday this week. We had listened to the acrostic poems from our friends at The Buzz,( http://twowhizzy.podomatic.com/ ) who have just posted their second group of poems. We hope that you enjoy our efforts..... part 2 to come. The music 'Greensleeves' is courtesy of Harpist - Sally Fletcher (http://www.heavenlyharpist.com/index.htm).

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The Story of Elizabeth Woodley and Henry Tudor
Posted: November 2007

As part of our Tudor study 2 pupils put together this excellent short finger puppet show on the life of Henry Tudor. Well done T and D!

A video podcast in the MOV format.

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A Year 4 Podcast on The Tudors
Posted: November 2007

Maia and Shayana begin the new series of Cefn Fforest Podcasts. They introduce life in Year, and our History Topic on 'The Tudors' .They give us an idea of the podcasts to come this term.

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Work in Progress Year6
Posted: June 2007

I have posted this piece of work even though as yet it is incomplete, my reason for doing this is :To show the main reason that we use these web 2.0 tools with young pupils - That the thought process and skills development is the most important part of any piece of work, the final product is rewarding but the route to it is always fascinating :The background to this piece is that the young lady creating the work is 11 and will be going to Key Stage 3 (High School) in September. She is on our More Able and Talented register for her ability in Literacy ( having won our Eisteddfod with a wonderful poem using evocative language).She has been using Audacity for at least 4 months now and actually said that she prefered it to GarageBand ( non of my doing honestly) in fact this piece was recorded on a MacBook using Audcaity.Jess has asked for a quiet room to work in - in fact all e could hear from across the hall was strange tapping and clapping ( we ask no questions in our podcasting club!!!)It was only later at the end of a 45 minute session that I was shown this piece. It consists of 8 audio tracks, a mixture of voice and body percussion which has been timed and mixed ( including increasing the volume on some tracks ) by one person in less than an hour. I was certainly impressed and I wouldn't even like to consider what NC Level you would possibly like to put on the original idea, let alone the final product. The only problem we have as I see it is giving these children the opportunities to develop the skills they now have in a system which still tends toward rigid conformity with a set of steps !!!! Creativity !!!!

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My Year 3 Class Playing Football in the Yard
Posted: June 2007

This video is for our European Friends and shows us playing football at Playtime on Monday 4th June in the afternoon.

A video podcast in the MOV format

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A Year 6 Work in Progress
Posted: May 2007

This is a further podcast in our creative podcast series produced by Year 6 pupils in their final term in our school before they move up to what people may call the High School. This piece is very much a work in progress with some work needing to be done to the abrupt ending, it shows some of the technical ideas that this group of creative pupils have had over the past few weeks.

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Soccer Report
Posted: May 2007

This report on last Saturday's F.A. Cup Final between Chelsea and Manchester United was written, recorded and edited by the boys heard giving the report, using Audacity on a Dell laptop.It is great to see how these 7-8 year olds have come to terms with using the technology - BEWARE : Digital Natives at work!!!!!!

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** Caution Year 6 Creative Podcast (2) **
Posted: May 2007

Another Podcast from the same young podcaster.... enjoy

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Harry and his Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
Posted: May 2007

We found a copy of Harry and his Bucket Full of Dinosaurs in our Library Corner the other day and as we have a Dinosaur 'Mad' young man in our class, he and a friend decided to make a podcast ... we hope that you enjoy it. This podcast was recorded edited and posted by Year 3 pupils at Cefn Fforest Primary.

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Welsh Lesson with Nia
Posted: May 2007

Nia our school visitng Athrowes (Welsh Teacher) has been visiting Year 2 and 3 classes recently.... this is our lesson from 17th May 2007. Nia covers - does dim ***** 'da fi ( I do not have a ***** with me) and Faint o'r gloch ydy hi ? What time is it ?un o'r gloch - one o'clock etc.We hope that you enjoy our podcast we really enjoy our lessons with Nia - da iawn Nia.

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** Caution Year 6 Creative Podcast (1) **
Posted: May 2007

This podcast is the latest in a series of creative efforts by a group of Year 6 pupils who are pushing the boundaries of podcasting in an after-school club at Cefn Fforest.The maker of this podcast delights in experimenting with what Audacity can do, including in this episode reversing tracks and inserting comic voices. It is fascinating to watch a young man like this becoming skilled in the use of the technology - a true Digital Native at the age of 10....

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Some facts about The Romans Part 1
Posted: May 2007

We are just completing our history topic on The Romans and spent an afternoon recording some interesting facts that we have found out while carrying out a webquest. Here is Part 1 of our Roman Fact Podcasts.

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A Football Report
Posted: May 2007

A report on a recent match for Cefn Fforest Under 11 soccer team !!!

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A First - The first (semi) independent Podcast by Y3 (yay!!)
Posted: April 2007

Today in class as we enter the final term of the year i thought that it was time that my Year 3 pupils started to produce their own independent podcasts on a range of subjects. Today I ran a short session where we learned the basics of using Audacity to record and edit a podcast. I must admit that by the end of the 20 minute instruction Jordan the 'Techie' for the podcast was already making just the sort of value judgements that I was looking for - eg 'we could do with shortening that piece of music', 'could we do that audio again please?' Which was great to hear from a 7 year old - so even though the podcast is short it is almost all their own work - Well Done excellent work ....