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Year 6 Software Specifications
An approved list of education Apps should be purchased and installed before the start of each school term. The baseline requirements are listed, followed by the latest Term requirements. (Note: The Junior School App list is continually reviewed. Any additional App requests will be published here and also in student homework during the school year).
Select the appropriate App below on the iPad and press on the preview link for direct access to the App Store for that specific App.
Year 6 App requirements for 2018
| App | Cost | Description |
|---|---|---|
| EasyBib | FREE | An easy way to automatically create citations for your bibliography |
| Adobe Reader | FREE | Reading pdf documents |
| Book Creator | $7.49 | ebook creator |
| Brainpop | FREE | Description: An easy way to login to Brainpop. Please use the school account details provided by your class teacher. |
| ChatterPix | FREE | Brings static images to life |
| Dictionary.com | FREE | Reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. Will work offline for searched words |
| Explain Everything | $8.99 | Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere |
| Find my iPhone | FREE | If your iPad is misplaced then Find My iPhone app will allow you to use any other iOS device to find it and protect your data. Install this app on two devices, open it and sign in with your Apple ID |
| GarageBand | FREE with new devices | GarageBand turns your iPad into Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio. Students can make music anywhere and play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses |
| Google Docs | FREE | Collaborative file sharing |
| Google Drive | FREE | Storage and file sharing |
| Hooked on Words | FREE | Language game |
| iBooks | FREE | iBook repository |
| iMovie | FREE with new devices | Movie making tool including video, photos, music and sound effects |
| Inspiration | $14.99 | Mindmapping |
| IXL | FREE | App that allows IXL to work on iPads |
| Keynote | FREE with new devices | Presentation processing including 44 Apple-designed themes. Easy-to-use tools let you add tables, charts, shapes, photos, and videos to slide |
| MackinVIA ebook Reader | FREE | Digital platform for inquiry ebooks, audiobooks and databases |
| NoodleTools Companion | FREE | A tool that allows students to record the research sources used in inquiry. |
| Notability | $14.99 | Annotation onto pdf documents, recording notes and creating presentations |
| Pages | FREE with new devices | ‘Pages' is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works |
| Pic Collage | FREE | Image arrangement |
| Seesaw: The Learning Journal | FREE | Student-driven digital portfolio |
| Sora, by OverDrive (Updated) | FREE | ereader for Kristin School Digital Collection |
Year 6 Optional requirements for 2018
| App | Cost | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Borrow Box | FREE | e-book reader for use with Auckland Public Libraries |
| Chinese Number Trainer | FREE | Reading and listening to Chinese number characters correctly |
| Designs for Pages | $5.99 | 1050 templates for use with Pages to create a wide range of publications |
| Foldify | $5.99 | Creates nets of 3D shapes |
| Green Screen by Do Ink | $4.49 | Green Screen app for use in the Cloud Suite |
| Hopscotch | FREE | Coding App for use on iPads |
| Khan Academy | FREE | Khan Academy allows you to learn almost anything for free |
| Literacy Planet Word Mania | FREE | Word building activity |
| Phonto | FREE | Adding text to photos and using filters |
| Photo Art Maker | FREE | Turning photos into pieces of art |
| Pinyin Trainer Learn Chinese | FREE | Reading and listening to Chinese Pinyin correctly |
| Puppet Pals | $5.99 | Practice Chinese oral skills in a fun way |
| ScratchJr | FREE | Coding app for use on iPads |
| Sketch Guru | FREE | Creates pencil sketches of photos |
| Smart Protractor | FREE | Measuring angles of real-life objects. |
| Stop Motion Studio | FREE (for a limited time) | An easy App for the creation of stop/go animated movies |
| VideoFX Live | FREE | App for use with the VideoFX Elective |
| Word Tracer - | $12.99 | Learn Chinese characters. The meaning, sound and how to write characters |
