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THE DAY BEGAN with Year 4 creating patterns based on a random set of materials brought in Mrs Corkill. They included a plate, a bar of soap, a spotty bag, a comb, an address book and a potato. The children used photographs of these to make repeating patterns, and modified the pictures in Apple’s Pages program. (The computer bus man’s blog can’t show the pictures until next week due to him being tied up with other matters all lunchtime...)
That afternoon, Mrs El-Sheik brought Year 6 to make 3-D models of the town’s Albert Tower.
These weren’t just any 3-D Sketchup creations. These stand as some of the best 3-D models made on the computer bus since we began using this incredible program back in December 2003. The towers (LEFT) included all manner of architectural detail copied from photographs of the real tower which stands on a hill adjacent to the school.
The actual tower was built to commemorate the royal visit of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria on the 20th of September 1847. The story goes that Prince Albert was rowed ashore at Ballure where he made his way up the glen to Lhergy Frissel, where he climbed to the top of the hill. There he viewed the surrounding town of Ramsey and the northern plain. The hill was renamed Albert Mount and a year later the foundation of the tower was laid. It is made of granite and rises 45 feet into the sky, a landmark not only for the town of Ramsey, but also for the Isle of Man.
Well, Sketchup has recently allowed children all over the Island to represent landmarks like the Albert Tower in full 3D, with Laxey Wheel, Tynwald Hill, Tower of Refuge, Milner’s Tower - as well as all manner of fantasy buildings, 3D packaging designs, historical palaces, pyramids and at CRHS scale representations of furniture - even Ramsey Bus Garage... Wonderful
NEXT WEEK: St.Mary’s School, Douglas...
Scoill Ree Gorree (4/5)
06/02/2009
ICE, SNOW, EXTREME COLD and ROADWORKS made for a rather ‘fraught’ trip from Douglas to Ramsey today.
But you know what? It was worth it to see the splendid work done by the boys and girls at Scoill Ree Gorree. Even Prince Albert would have been pleased...