The children in Year 1 have been working extremely hard and have had super attendance. To celebrate having wonderful attendance, Mrs Clarke treated Year 1 to ice pops. Keep up the super work and continue making Miss Morris proud!
Today, Year 5 started their new Computing topic for Spring 2: Creating Media. For the first lesson, they created vector drawings using Google Docs. To begin with, they were each given a sheet of paper with six shapes on it and had to create a vector drawing by cutting out Read more…
This week was also internet safety day. We had a visit from two our our school digital leaders who taught us about the importance of keeping safe online and what we should be looking out for and reporting.
Today, two of the Year 6 Digital Leaders came into Year 5 to talk about being safe on the internet, linking to Safer Internet Day. They had planned some great activities, which really made the Year 5 pupils think about what they use the internet for and how to stay Read more…
Digital leaders from Year 6 came to work with us in class to read us a story, complete an activity and teach us about E-Safety. The children learnt lots from the session and enjoyed completing the activity that the digital leaders had prepared. We made some super Internet Safety posters Read more…
This term we have been learning how to program Bee-Bots. We have been predicting and planning their routes. We have developed new terminology such as algorithms and debug. The children have really enjoyed working with the Bee-Bots.
Over the last few weeks Year 2 have been learning all about algorithms, giving clear instructions and making predictions. We have been using the beebots to help us with our understanding. Today we designed and created our own map. We worked in partners to come up with a theme and Read more…
This year in computing we have been developing understanding of the word technology, getting used to using a laptop and developing use of the mouse and keyboard. So far we have practised logging on using our username and password, created art work and typed our names.
Year 6 have been learning all about how we communicate and connect through the internet. In this lesson, we learnt how information is shared through a network using packets that include an IP address. Take a look at how we became a human network and communicated through packets.
This half term we are learning all about spreadsheets. Our first lesson was just becoming familiar with the programme Excel and learning about cells, fields and data. The children had 3 different activities to complete to learn how to navigate around the programme and read and enter data in to Read more…
This week we have been thinking about internet safety, in particular about being responsible and respectful when playing games online. The children have completed a range of activities to explore this years internet safety theme – All fun and games Activity 1 – What would you do in this situation? Read more…
For this year’s Safer Internet Day, Year 6 produced and presented some Google slides surrounding the theme of ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online.’ Everyone created informative and mature presentations- some pairs even gave us a quiz!
As part of their Computing topic looking at the history of computers, Year 6 spent the afternoon exploring ways of recording spoken words, music and sound effects. Next week we will further develop these skills and record our own Bletchley Park radio plays…I can’t wait to hear them!
This half term we have been learning all about mosaics in our art lessons. We started way back in May where we looked at images of mosaics and researched the type of images included.We found out that many Romans had mosaics on the floor of their homes. We then had Read more…
This half term, we have been using Scratch to create music. The children have programmed a range of sprites to make the musical instruments play. Here are just a few examples. Well done Year 3